Overview

RUCKUS Unleashed is custom designed to help small business owners grow their businesses, deliver an excellent customer experience and manage costs while supporting enterprise-class Wi-Fi and highly customizable control of mobile devices with minimal IT staff.

RUCKUS Unleashed provides a controllerless option for small to medium-sized Wi-Fi deployments where up to 128 access points can be deployed in a self-healing, redundant wireless network with no controller required, while still providing many of the enterprise-class features that traditionally required a RUCKUS WLAN controller (for example, ZoneDirector or SmartZone controller). Beginning with Unleashed 200.13, Dedicated Master is introduced as a replacement for ZoneDirector 1200, which provides controller functionalities such as Smart Redundancy, tunnel WLAN, cross-network segment networking, and so on.

RUCKUS Unleashed access points (APs) have built-in controller capabilities including user access controls, guest networking features, advanced Wi-Fi security and traffic management. As businesses grow to multiple sites or larger scale deployments, RUCKUS offers an easy migration path to cloud-based or controller-based Wi-Fi, using the same RUCKUS access points.

RUCKUS Unleashed provides small to medium-sized business environments with superior performance, lower costs, and simplified management. Separate controller support contracts and access point licenses are not needed, significantly reducing upfront and recurring costs, and the simplified web interface also makes deploying RUCKUS Unleashed easy.

The RUCKUS Unleashed platform offers many of the features that previously required a controller, and without having to sacrifice many features that previously required a controller, such as Zero-IT, Dynamic PSK (DPSK), Smart Mesh, ChannelFly, Application Recognition and Control (ARC), Bonjour Gateway, Bonjour Fencing, and one-step firmware upgrades of the entire network from a single interface.