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SmartZone™ Data Plane.
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The industry’s first s calable w ireless L AN d ata p lane a ppliance
SmartZone Data Plane is a wireless network appliance that enables you to tunnel user traffic and secure data to and from remote and local data centers. Designed to work seamlessly with RUCKUS® virtual SmartZone network controllers, our forwarding plane appliances help minimize operational expenses while maximizing Wi-Fi® deployment flexibility and scale.
Flexible traffic redirection.
Secure tunneled WLANs.
High-speed packet processing.
Centralized control.
Management simplicity.
The industry’s first s calable w ireless L AN d ata p lane a ppliance
SmartZone Data Plane is a wireless network appliance that enables you to tunnel user traffic and secure data to and from remote and local data centers. Designed to work seamlessly with RUCKUS® virtual SmartZone network controllers, our forwarding plane appliances help minimize operational expenses while maximizing Wi-Fi® deployment flexibility and scale.
Flexible traffic redirection.
Secure tunneled WLANs.
High-speed packet processing.
Centralized control.
Management simplicity
Deliver better Wi-Fi network service
Our integrated features ensure a better end-user quality of experience (QoE), while minimizing costs and enhancing compliance.
Offload WLAN connectivity services such as DHCP/NAT to the SmartZone Data Plane to eliminate extraneous appliances.
Enable Layer 3 roaming, without additional mobility controllers, through interconnection of distributed SmartZone Data Planes.
Support lawful intercept of encrypted traffic to maintain CALEA compliance.
Improve data packet forwarding throughput with speeds of 1 Gbps, 10 Gbps or higher.
Choose from flexible deployment options
Deploy our virtual and physical form factors individually or in any combination to optimize and scale your wireless traffic.
The physical appliance (SZ144-D) benefits organizations that have non-specialized IT departments with limited virtualization expertise or those that wish to further simplify deployments in tenant locations.
The virtual form factor (vSZ-D) is ideal for organizations with specialized IT teams that have expertise in deploying a virtualized infrastructure across central and tenant locations.