Simply better WiFi Ruckus Wireless in a Nutshell 1 NUMBER ONE #1 in Hospitality #1 in Service Provider 4 Industry Leading BYOD Onboarding CloudPath solution for Cloud and Hosted Solution Providers 2 Broadest Wireless Portfolio Indoor, Outdoor, Controller, Controller-less, Cloud, Onboarding, Location-based Services & Analytics 5 Best radio coverage in the industry Achieved with BeamFlex and BeamFlex+ 3 FIRST to market with 802.11 AC Wave 2 Standalone; Appliance; Hosted; Cloud and VM options 6 Highest Performing, Highest Capacity Highest performing and highest capacity Wi-Fi PERIOD, 2 1
A World Going Wireless Tablets e-readers Ultrabooks, Netbooks and Chromebooks Smart Phones AV Streaming Devices Annual Unit Shipments 874M 220% Wi-Fi devices 2.8B 65% Ethernet devices 1.1B 694M 2010 2016 Barcode Scanners & PoS Terminals Medical instruments Security & Building control systems Displays and Information Kiosks Projectors Printers A matter of priorities The Mobile Generation: Millennials and Z-generation (2000+) Their worst The culprit nightmares 2
How to make WIFI WORK? What Is Ruckus BeamFlex? Radio Frequency energy has similar characteristics to light energy An unfocused light bulb of a given power spreads energy in all directions and the energy quickly diminishes over distance Traditional omni-directional AP antenna work like an unfocused light bulb If you focus the same energy the light will be brighter and travel further in the direction of focus The BeamFlex antenna focuses the RF energy as a beam towards the receiver = better coverage, better performance, better reliability 3
What Matters? The SNR, the Air Quality, the PHY Data Rate The Antenna and the radio are the only places where speed, reliability and capacity can be improved BeamFlex Adaptive Antennas 4
BeamFlex in Action Antenna elements selected on a per client/per packet basis Adapts in real time to client orientation and location Stronger signal towards the client Less interference to neighboring APs and clients Note: View as a slide show Adaptive Polarization Diversity Device orientation accounts for up to 5x performance differential among products Better reception (PD-MRC) for weak and hard to hear devices Improved transmission to devices constantly changing their orientation HORIZONTAL POLARIZATION VERTICAL POLARIZATION 5
RF conditions are dynamic: empty RF conditions are dynamic: full! 6
Beyond the Reference Design Reference Design noun (ref er ence de sign) [ref-ruhns di-zīn] : refers to a technical blueprint of a system that is intended for others to copy (WIKIPEDIA). Provided by chip manufacturers to sell more ICs It includes all the essentials info to produce a working system It can be improved by third parties Most of our competitors use this approach as it s cheaper Spot the differences Aerohive Cisco Meraki 7
Ruckus handcrafted WiFi More Than Just Smart Antennas Dynamic channel management Client load balancing Ongoing per channel performance assessment Adaptation based on measured useable capacity (ChannelFly) Balances client load across APs by redirecting clients based on neighboring AP connection quality and relative loading Band Balancing Balances client load across bands by redirecting clients based on capabilities Threshold band ratio control to prevent overload/starvation QoS at AP level Application queues per client Prioritisation of voice, video, and data Airtime fairness Airtime allocation based on client capabilities Prevents airtime starvation and slower clients from throttling faster ones Fast Client Roaming SmartRoam monitors client signal and forces a roam on low RSSI over a measured amount of client packets 802.11r,.11k and.11v resource management and fast transition support 8
Summary of Ruckus Wireless Advantages Patented Superior RF Technologies that work with any Wi-Fi Standard Flexible, Scalable and Resilient deployment models More capacity with fewer APs, or much more with the same Great Experience for legacy 2.4GHz devices too! Carrier-grade products for the Enterprise market too Portfolio 9
Access Points An AP for every occasion HIGH END MID-RANGE ENTRY SPECIALTY INDOOR R710 4x4 11ac w2 Roadmap R610 3x3 11ac w2 R510 2x2 11ac w2 R310 2x2 11ac H510 2x2 11ac w2 Wall Plate Roadmap C110 2x2 11ac w2 DOCSIS 3.0 Wall Plate T710 4x4 11ac w2 SFP, PoE out, GPS T610 4x4 11ac w2 T300 2x2 11ac 7781-CM 3x3 11n DOCSIS 3.0 P300 Point to point/ Point to multipoint OUTDOOR Roadmap 10
Flexible deployment Same AP, multiple management options Medium-Large Very Large Cloud* Very Small Small o Max APs: SZ-100 1,024 vsz-e SCG-200 vsz-h 1,024 o Max APs: 10,000 10,000 o Clients: 25,000 25,000 o Clients: 100,000 100,000 o Max APs: o Clients: o Capacity: No Tunnel o Size: Unleashed 25 512 Controller-less o Max APs: o Clients: o Capacity: o Size: ZD 1200 75 2000 200 Mbps Mini Desktop o Capacity: o Size: o Max APs: o Clients: o Capacity: 10 Gbps vsz-d 1RU n/a 4 Node Cluster 3,000 3,000 60,000 60,000 40 Gbps vsz-d o Capacity: o Size: o Max APs: o Clients: o Capacity: 20 Gbps vsz-d 2RU n/a 4 Node Cluster 30,000 30,000 300,000 300,000 80 Gbps vsz-d Deployment Type SMB Single-site SMB Campus SMB Multi-site Medium to Large Campus Enterprise Distributed Sites SP Internal Network Managed Services *Currently US hosted only 11
SmartZone Controllers SmartZone 100 Scalable Mid-Range Appliance WLAN Controller for Enterprise Simplified GUI (Single Domain, Single Tennant) 10G Supports AP Local break-out and Centralized data tunneling Single 77W AC power supple, Redundant fans 320 GB Hard Drive for data storage 2x10GE + 4xGE 10 GB Data Throughput Per AP licensing Highly Available and Greatly Scalable 1G Single node: 1,000 APs, 20K clients, 2K WLANs 4-node cluster (3+1 redundancy): 3,000 APs, 60K clients, 2K WLANs 4xGE 1 GB Data Throughput 12
vsmartzone Scalable virtual appliance to meet the needs of Enterprise and MSP Up to 10,000 APs per instance vsz-h (1K/instance vsz-e) Up to 100K Clients per instance vsz-h (20K/instance vsz-e) Adjust VM compute resources to # of APs Multi-hypervisor support: vsphere, KVM, Hyper-V, Azure, GCE n+1 clustering (3+1) architecture for resiliency and scalability Multi-tenancy in High Scale mode Built in reporting and integration with optional SCI vsz Carrier Class Enterprise Enabled Massive Scale Highly Reliable Simple Right To Use license per vsz and pooled AP licenses per cluster OTT Services 13
Ruckus Cloudpath What is Cloudpath? A Security Management Platform The Swiss Army Knife of Access Networks Policy Management Device Enablement Certificate Management 14
Ruckus Smart Positioning Technology (SPoT) SPoT Analytics Dwell Times Heatmap Repeat Visitors 15
Ruckus Smart Cell Insight (SCI) SmartCell Insight Report & Analytics 16
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