Ruckus-Starnberger-IT-Forum-2018

WLAN Technologie der Weltklasse What makes a great wifi? Sascha Hirschoff Sr. Mgr Systems Engineering, EMEA – CEE

• Location: Cologne, Germany • Capacity: 50,000 seats • Number of APs Used: 400 • 10,000 Simultaneous users

• Home of FC Köln

• Host of 2006 FIFA World Cup

• Location: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

• Capacity: 76,000 seats

• Number of APs Used: 217

4 Stadiums (out of 6) used Ruckus Fan Facing Wi-Fi for FIFA World Cup

Peak Throughput over 2Gbps

This network is secure...

2015 2017 “Wi-Fi is a nice-to-have” “We don’t need wires we have Ruckus” “If no one complains, ⎯ that’s a huge thumbs up” Bart Stump, Black Hat NOC Director

Walter Abeson, Black Hat NOC

Number of stall-free video streams delivered before and during network data loading 60 60 60 Only Ruckus delivered stall-free 60 57 video to all 60 clients while 50 under load

40 41

Clients 28 28 20 19 18

10 9

0 Ruckus R610 Meraki MR42 Cisco 1850i Aerohive 250 (Dual 5GHz) Aruba AP-305

Before data load During data load

Note: 60 video clients (Chromebooks) and two data clients (Mac Minis) were used in the test Source: Divergent Dynamics

• Ruckus & Portfolio & News • What makes a great Wifi - Wireless Technology Differences • Wired Technology • Internet of Things

Customer Premises Network & Cloud Equipment

“Ruckus' unmatched expertise in wireless and wired networking perfectly complements our growth strategy of driving towards a constantly connected, mobile future... building on our strength in networking and helping us to serve new verticals.” - ARRIS CEO Bruce McClelland

Customer End Customers Partners Countries 100,000 8,000+ 150

Tech Support Parts Depots Employees Engineers R&D Centers Locations 1,700 700+ 7 160 13 In 40+ countries

Hospitality Service Provider Wi-Fi Wi-Fi #1 #2

U.S. Federal Government

10 000+ APs Maracanã Stadium 3700+ hotels in 1000s of restaurants 1000s of buildings on the streets of New Rio de Janeiro 30+ countries around the world 500K+ users 79K fans / 70 Mbps York downloads

© 2018 ARRIS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved. Copyright 2018 – ARRIS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved © 2018 ARRIS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved. 10 Ruckus is a world leader… Ruckus builds: Secure access networks for people and machines

WLAN CONTROLLERS & SECURE DEVICE ACCESS SWITCHES ACCESS POINTS SOFTWARE

ANALYTICS & IoT ACCESS NETWORKS PRIVATE LTE LOCATION SOFTWARE

Controller-less Cloud-managed Appliance

Plug-and-play Cloud simplicity Scale & flexibility

Ruckus Unleashed Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi SmartZone Controllers

Security & Policy Network Intelligence Location Software & SaaS

Cloudpath SCI SPoT

Physical Appliance Virtual Appliance Cloud-managed Controller-less IoT Control & Management SmartZone Ruckus Cloud Wi-Fi ZoneDirector SmartZone Ruckus OpenG LTE Ruckus Unleashed Ruckus IoT Controller

Access Aggregation Core

Switches

ICX 7150 ICX 7250 ICX 7450 ICX 7650 ICX 7750

Outdoor Indoor Specialty LTE Access Points

T, P Series R Series H, C Series Q Series

1999 1999 / 2003 2009 2014 2015 2018-19 Wave 1 Wave 2 802.11ax 4000 4.8 Gbps 3.5 Gbps 3500 Don’t forget about the client devices 3000 capabilities!

2500

Mbps 2000 1.73 Gbps 1500 1.3 Gbps

1000 867 Mbps 450 Mbps 500 300 Mbps 11 Mbps 54 Mbps 0 11b 11a/g 11n (2x2) 11n (3x3) 11ac 11ac 11ac (4x4 11ac (4x4 160Mhz) (2x2) (3x3) 80Mhz)

Note: Indicates PHYsical data rates – expected actual throughput is bsst case ~45-55% less depending on 802.11 technology and other factors

Mobility Interference Security Standards

Infrastructure Deployment Density Apps

1 6 11

BeamFlex+ with Transmit ChannelFly Multi-user MIMO Load and Band Balancing Beamforming Active, capacity-based Multiply radio capacity with Balance client connections Adaptive antennas, channel selection with MU-MIMO supporting across radios/APs to optimize beamforming, polarization rapid adaptation more devices system capacity diversity, best-in-class links

SmartMesh Airtime Fairness Capacity-based SmartRoam with 11k/r/v Utilize wireless with best- Prevent airtime overuse by Admission Control Enhance roaming with both path, automatic formation, inefficient devices, while Preserve application quality standards-based and adaptation, and failover boosting aggregate speeds for connected clients with Ruckus-specific protocols airtime/capacity thresholds

Per Packet Adaptive Wi-Fi Cell Transient Client Airtime Decongestion Network Capacity Adaptive Transmit Size Management Reduces management Utilization Power Change RF cell sizes Mitigates performance traffic in crowded Uses adaptive client Dynamically adjust in real time to ensure degradation in device environments, which management transmit power on a better coverage and dense environments dramatically optimizes RF techniques to evenly per-packet basis to reduce co-channel like transit stations spectrum utilization and spread client load optimize per-client interference, which through machine device performance across APs and across performance leads to better learning insights that bands to maintain network ignore unassociated optimal AP-to-client performance transient clients links in ultra-high-dense environments.

• Stronger Wi-Fi signals at longer ranges • Adapts automatically to environmental changes • More concurrent users per access point Radio• More stable connections 1 Radio at higher2 Radio data ratesRadio 3 4 Radio Radio • Unmatched scalability 1 4

Radio Radio *Radio Tx/Rx chain 2 3

Innovative Architectures Performance/Power ‒ Single Point of Management: ‒ Upgradable 1G to 100G Campus Fabric, Advanced Stacking ‒ PoE/PoE+ on all ports ‒ Self forming and healing ‒ Up to 90W per port ‒ Automated load balancing ‒ First with 100G to the closet ‒ Automated deployment

Fixed Switches Enhanced For Wireless Everywhere Lower TCO ‒ Unified network management ‒ Scale-out network architectures ‒ Unified security & policy mgt. ‒ Optimized power consumption ‒ Optimized: Multigigabit, PoE ‒ Common platform for all ‒ Reporting and Analytics architectures

A single system to control and manage wired and wireless networks

SmartZoneOS 5 • SmartZoneOS 5 powers the family of SmartZone network controllers Network Controller • Unified: Control and management of Ruckus APs and switches Virtual Physical • Flexible: Physical and Virtual Appliances deployment options • Scalable: From midsize organizations to large service providers

LORA ZIGBEE

LBS SURVEILLANCE

WIFI Problems of the Siloed IoT Install Base

Additional Switches to support IoT network

Additional Ethernet cable pulls

Separate IoT Gateways

Components of the IoT Access Network

1 IoT-ready 3 WLAN APs Controller + + Ruckus IoT 4 Ruckus IoT 2 Modules Controller (BLE ZIGBEE LORA)

Smart Door Climate Lock Control Smart Lighting

IoT Local Area Network • Ruckus SmartZone Controller • Ruckus IoT Controller • IoT-ready, in-room APs • IoT Modules News

802.11 802.11b 802.11a 802.11g 802.11n 802.11ac 802.11ax (Legacy) (Legacy) (Legacy) (Legacy) (HT) (VHT) (HE)

Year Ratified 1997 1999 1999 2003 2009 2014 2019

Operating Band 2.4 GHz/IR 2.4 GHz 5 GHz 2.4 GHz 2.4/5 GHz 5 GHz 2.4/5 GHz

Channel BW 20 MHz 20 MHz 20 MHz 20 MHz 20/40 MHz 20/40/80/160 MHz 20/40/80/160 MHz

Peak PHY Rate 2 Mbps 11 Mbps 54 Mbps 54 Mbps 600 Mbps 6.8 Gbps 9.6 Gbps

Link Spectral 0.1 bps/Hz 0.55 bps/Hz 2.7 bps/Hz 2.7 bps/Hz 15 bps/Hz 42.5 bps/Hz 62.5 bps/Hz Efficiency

Max # SU Streams 1 1 1 1 4 8 8

Max # MU Streams NA NA NA NA NA 4 (DL only) 8 (UL & DL)

Modulation DSSS, FHSS DSSS, CCK OFDM OFDM OFDM OFDM OFDM, OFDMA

Max Constellation / DQPSK CCK 64-QAM, 3/4 64-QAM, 3/4 64-QAM, 5/6 256-QAM, 5/6 1024-QAM, 5/6 Code Rate

Max # OFDM tones NA NA 64 64 128 512 2048

Subcarrier Spacing NA NA 312.5 kHz 312.5 kHz 312.5 kHz 312.5 kHz 78.125 kHz

Highlights ‒ Dual band concurrent access point ‒ 2.4 GHz radio: 4x4:4 802.11b/g/n/ax ‒ 1.148 Gbps max PHY rate ‒ 5 GHz radio: 8x8:8 802.11a/n/ac/ax ‒ 4.8 Gbps max PHY rate ‒ Multi-User MIMO support ‒ Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) ‒ 160 / 80 / 40 / 20 MHz channel support ‒ BeamFlex+ adaptive antennas with Polarization Diversity (PD-MRC) ‒ IoT Ready: BLE & Zigbee ‒ Up to 1024 client associations ‒ 1x 1/2.5/5Gbps and 1x 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet Ports Anounced 17th July!! ‒ uPoE, PoH PoE input, 48VDC input Available this Q

Copyright 2018 – ARRIS Enterprises, LLC. All rights reserved Copyright 2018 – ARRIS Enterprises, LLC All rights reserved. Introducing Ruckus E510 Modular Embedded Access Point for Outdoor Lighting, Stadiums, Rail, Smart Cities

Highlights ‒ Dual band concurrent access point ‒ 2.4 GHz radio: 2x2:2 802.11b/g/n ‒ 400 Mbps max PHY rate ‒ 5 GHz radio: 2x2:2 802.11a/n/ac Wave 2 ‒ 866 Mbps max PHY rate ‒ Multi-User MIMO support ‒ Externally mounted BeamFlex+ adaptive antennas with Polarization Diversity (PD-MRC) + ‒ Ruckus SmartMesh ‒ Field-accessible USB Port for IoT radios e.g. BLE ‒ Up to 512 client associations ‒ Two 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Ports - M12 connectors ‒ 802.3af PoE input, 12VDC input ‒ IP67 Outdoor Rating ‒ -40 to +70C Operating temperature ‒ Rail certified EN 50155 Available Now ‒ Embeddable form-factor ‒ Support for Wall, Pole, Cabinet, DIN Rail and others ‒ Management: Standalone, ZoneDirector, SmartZone (see appendix for Unleashed and Cloud availability)

Highlights ‒ Dual band concurrent access point ‒ 802.3af PoE input, 12VDC input ‒ 2.4 GHz radio: 2x2:2 802.11b/g/n ‒ -40 to +65C Operating temperature ‒ 400 Mbps max PHY rate ‒ Rail certified EN 50155 ‒ 5 GHz radio: 2x2:2 802.11a/n/ac Wave 2 ‒ Mounting support for wall & ceiling ‒ 866 Mbps max PHY rate ‒ Enclosed: LTE antennas, GPS antenna ‒ Multi-User MIMO support ‒ Management: Standalone, SmartZone (see ‒ BeamFlex+ antennas with PD-MRC appendix for Unleashed availability) ‒ Up to 512 client associations ‒ Embedded Cat4 LTE Modem for backhaul (150Mbps down / 50Mbps up) ‒ EU/APAC SKU LTE Bands: 1, 3, 7, 8, 20 ‒ USA (AT&T) SKU LTE Bands: 2, 4, 12 ‒ ANZ SKU LTE Bands: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8, 28 ‒ Japan SKU LTE Bands: 1, 3, 8, 18, 19, 26 ‒ 2x SIM slots (for failover & carrier roaming) ‒ 2x RP-SMA connectors for LTE antennas ‒ Embedded GPS receiver ‒ USB Port for IoT radios e.g. BLE Available Now ‒ Two 10/100/1000Base-T Ethernet Ports

HIGH DEVICE DENSITY HIGH LOSS

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HIGH INTERFERENCE