topic Content Management in Access Points - Indoor and Outdoor

Content Management

gary_mcadams — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 19:24:00 GMT

I want to be able to configure content management for my Ruckus WIFI APs.

I have very robust content management via the SonicWALL TZ400 that I use as my primary gateway/firewall/router. However, I want the users that connect to the WIFI APs to have different content management. I'm assuming I might need a ZoneDirector in place. There is not one in place now. But, is their an option in the ZD - or software add-on - to enable me to configure content management.

Thanks so much for any help/insight provided

Re: Content Management

joshua_lee1 — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 19:52:25 GMT

So far, none of Ruckus' products can handle content filtering. Something I'm hoping they will tackle with at least the Cloud WiFi and SmartZone platforms. If you already have the TZ400, why not filter content based on VLAN and specify VLANs for each SSID in use for the wireless users? That way you can filter differently for different types of users. That is, unless you filter based on user type, in which case your filtering needs shouldn't care about whether they are on wireless or not.

Re: Content Management

gary_mcadams — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:00:27 GMT

That's what I thought, about the Ruckus products.

Great idea with the VLAN via the SW. Thanks! I'm gonna' experiment with that.

Thanks so much for your input.

Re: Content Management

joshua_lee1 — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:06:36 GMT

Happy to help. I really hope Ruckus gets up to speed with it though. Not all sites have content filtering firewalls...

Re: Content Management

gary_mcadams — Fri, 02 Jun 2017 20:15:32 GMT

Yes, that's very true.