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The SmartZone™ 144 Data Plane appliance (SZ144-D) is a wireless LAN data plane appliance, that comes in physical form factor with four (4) 1Gbps and four (4) 10Gbps ports. Made to work seamlessly with Ruckus SmartZone network controllers (vSZ-E, vSZ-H), the SmartZone Data Plane appliance (SZ144-D) enables secure tunneled WLANs from Ruckus APs while minimizing CAPEX spending and maximizing Wi-Fi deployment flexibility and scale.

SZ144-D appliance benefits businesses that have leaner IT departments with limited virtualization expertise or that wish to further simplify deployments. Operators, ISPs and large enterprises can deploy the SZ144-D in a centralized data center with SmartZone network controllers, or at specific venues in a distributed topology. In addition, organizations have the flexibility to deploy SZ144-D at each of the tenant locations based on their requirements.

The Data Plane appliance brings multiple high value features, such as:

  - High performance DHCP-server

  - NAT (Network Address Translation)

  - L3 Roaming

  - Flexi-VPN

Recommended Software:

Stability Release:

Base release:

SmartZone 6.1.2 (LT-GD Patch 3) Software Release (SZ144-D) (.ximg image)

Technology Release:

Base release:

SmartZone 7.0.0 (ST-GA) Patch 5 Software Release (SZ144-D) (.ximg image)

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