One of the most affordable and scalable high-end Smart WLAN controller in its class

ZoneDirector 5000 series

The ZoneDirector 5000 (ZD5000) is one of the industry’s first controller-based system that can be flexibly deployed either in-line, or out of the data path, supporting up to 20,000 clients, 1,000 access points (APs) and 2048 wireless LANs (WLANs) within a single, easy-to-use platform.

 

With 6x the processing power and twice the capacity and redundancy of previous ZoneDirectors, the ZD5000 is perfect for large-scale wireless environments such as hotels, schools, hospitals and managed service environments. With a lifetime warranty, the ZD5000 is one of the first Smart WLAN platform to combine power, simplicity and scalability into a single, affordable system.

Highly resilient with dual/hot-swappable AC/DC power supplies and fans, the ZD5000 integrates the same ZoneFlex Smart/OS software as other ZoneDirector platforms, supporting advanced features such as meshing, hot spot authentication, guest networking and dynamic Wi-Fi security at no additional cost.

Features

Unrivaled Scalability

  • Supports up to 1,000 APs, 20,000 clients, 2048 WLANs per device
  • Distributed forwarding architecture maximises data throughput by eliminating the need to send all traffic through the controller
  • 512 APs groups, 2048 WLAN groupings

Highly Resilient

  • Automatic smart redundancy for high availability
  • Dual, hot-swappable AC or DC power supplies
  • Redundant fans
  • Centralised or distributed deployment
  • Two 1 Gbps ports for full redundancy

Advanced Feature Set

  • Smart meshing support
  • Simple and elegant guest networking and captive portal
  • Hot spot authentication (WISPr support)
  • AP and WLAN groupings streamlines operation of a large number of small-sized networks from a single controller
  • IPv6 support
  • Integrated DHCP server
  • Dynamic VLAN assignment
  • Dynamic Pre-Shared Key generation and Zero-IT administration of clients
  • Integrated wireless performance test tool (SpeedFlex) measures WI-Fi throughput of clients, APs and mesh links
  • Users access policies provide rich WLAN control
  • Traffic thresholds for users on a specific SSID to ensure fairness
  • Robust authentication support (802.1X, captive portal, Active Directory, RADIUS, local database, WISPr)
  • Time-based WLAN broadcasting
  • Band steering provides spectral optimisation
  • Airtime fairness allows better user experience
  • Dynamic (performance based) channel assignment ensures faster client connectivity
  • Dynamic and configurable client load balancing to optimise overall WLAN system performance

Strong Security

  • Rogue AP detection
  • Client blacklisting
  • DoS attack prevention
  • Password guessing protection
  • Client isolation protects against peer-to-peer snooping
  • L2-4 ACL support

Super Simple Management

  • Graphic and Web 2.0 intuitive user interface
  • HTTP and HTTPS/SSL connections
  • Full CLI support
  • Manageable by Ruckus FlexMaster system
  • SNMP v1/v2c/v3, Telnet/SSHv2 support
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