topic Re: SmartZone in Cloudpath Enrollment System (ES)

SmartZone

israr_ahmed_93c — Sun, 26 May 2019 10:29:35 GMT

hi Guys, how are you?
my question is silly and simple. i just wanted to know what is smart zone?

Re: SmartZone

james_mckenna_b — Sun, 26 May 2019 10:57:21 GMT

The latest generation of Ruckus controller:

https://support.ruckuswireless.com/product_families/11-smartzone-sz

https://support.ruckuswireless.com/product_families/18-virtual-smartzone-vsz

Re: SmartZone

israr_ahmed_93c — Sun, 26 May 2019 11:06:08 GMT

hi james , can you explain me here in simple word

Re: SmartZone

abilashpr — Sun, 26 May 2019 11:12:09 GMT

Hi Israr,

ZD can be used to Small and Medium consumers, I have see some users purchasing ZD1200 for their homes, where Smart Zone and vSZ is being used for large, Enterprise, Hospitality and Carrier customers. We are using SZ100 for our two Hospitality customers.

ZD is hardware based where SZ is hardware based too, but vSZ is easy to install on virtual environments like VMware, Microsoft Hyper-v, Linux KVM and in AWS cloud, Google Cloud as well.

Regarding features please feel free to download their respective datasheets online.

For a brief techinal understanding please refer this blog,

https://robrobstation.com/2016/06/21/...

This is similar one ZD5K is discontinued,

https://www.techpillar.com/comparison...

Hope it helps,

Thank you.

Regards,
Abilash PR.

Re: SmartZone

stephan_de_meul — Sun, 26 May 2019 12:22:14 GMT

Smart zone is a virtual controller for your accesspoints

Re: SmartZone

tien_phan_anotw — Mon, 27 May 2019 02:50:05 GMT

hi @Israr Ahmed

I am a beginner in vSZ. From my point of view, vSZ likes a wired and wireless management for business (medium and large). It will useful help you managing and provisioning those network. You can manage directly in vSZ web-interface, CLI, also via API where you can do programming.

SZ is hardware base, I don't have any experience about it. But, I see that it likes vSZ. However, it is builded by Ruckus both of hardware and software, so the quality is so good.

Hope this helps.

Re: SmartZone

simon_pollard — Tue, 28 May 2019 08:41:50 GMT

Lots of complicated answers here but the reality is very simple. SmartZone is the Ruckus unified network controller for wired and wireless networks.

Whether you have Ruckus Access Points or switches or both and you want a management system the answer is SmartZone https://www.ruckusnetworks.com/smartzone

Re: SmartZone

eightohtwoeleve — Tue, 28 May 2019 13:17:01 GMT

It's your wireless controller.