Ruckus Cloudpath ES on existing school Zonedirector

[Arnold Santos]

Has anyone uses Ruckus Cloudpath ES on existing school Zonedirector? We're thinking what the benefit of these feature and the cost involved to our existing Ruckus wireless infrastructure will have. Cloud-hosted or VM onsite? Like to get more ideas if possible.  Thanks.

[Jeffrey B]

Had no heard of that product but after reading it it sounds like a shiny overlay on wpa2 enterprise with radius. We just pulled out a zd 1100 after three years of intermittent reliability (thanks SNUP 'experts' ) and replaced it with a local (if ram hogging) ruckus smart zone essentials with a shelf life longer than your average organic yougart - or ZD controller - and it works very well, being a vm on decent hardware it works way better and gives way more information about everything that it does, as there is no hardware component it is cheaper and you can have multiple zones with different firmware versions if a poorly planed, executed and supported Snup leaves you with a bunch of old WAPs.

Migration is a pain involving manually doing all the firmware upgrades if you are lucky enough to have a no longer supported zd1100 but the end result should at least last more than a couple of years like the last 'upgrade'.

Wandering back to the topic, wpa2 enterprise with radius works very well with most remotely modern devices and let's you use user creds to authenticate. Also works great when coupled with an intelligent filtering platform like Linewize that can ID users based on that login. SSO is great when it works.

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[Craig Knights]

Yes we've been on the vSZ for some years now. You can get WAP
licenses one by one which was a big reason to go for it instead of ZD
packages of is it 25?

The amount of RAM it needs sure is a bit painful!

cheers,
Craig

[Rohan Meuli]

Hi, Arnold - we deployed Cloudpath for a large school here in Auckland which has been very happy with it so I'll check if they're available to speak with you directly.

Cheers

Rohan@Our School Ltd

On Thu, 2 Aug 2018 at 10:38, Arnold Santos <arn...@queenstown.school.nz> wrote:

Has anyone uses Ruckus Cloudpath ES on existing school Zonedirector? We're thinking what the benefit of these feature and the cost involved to our existing Ruckus wireless infrastructure will have. Cloud-hosted or VM onsite? Like to get more ideas if possible.  Thanks.

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[Andrew Godfrey]

"...ruckus smart zone essentials with a shelf life longer than your average organic yougart - or ZD controller..." ?

Yeah, the ZD1xxx model never seemed like a good solution for a large number of access points. We had one initially when we were doing our proof of concept.

Our ZD3050 (now with added licences) has now been running for 8 years and still going strong!

Andrew Godfrey  |  Network Manager

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