Ruckus Wireless ZoneFlex 7982 802.11n Wi-Fi Access Point

With mobile users’ expectations at an all-time high, service providers and enterprises alike are constantly looking for cost-effective ways to improve wireless performance. Ruckus Wireless’ ZoneFlex 7982 smart Wi-Fi access point (AP) satisfies the growing requirements of fast-changing, high-density environments.

These three-stream 802.11n APs offer an unrivaled mix of capacity, ease-of-use and reliability. ZoneFlex 7982 maintains stable connections and sustaining a high-quality user experience as smart mobile devices roam through business locations.

Dynamic polarization diversity combines with Ruckus’ patented BeamFlex™ adaptive antenna arrays and transmit beamforming (TxBF) to achieve Wi-Fi performance gains of up to 4x.  ZoneFlex 7982 APs deliver up to 6dB of signal-to-interference-plus-noise (SINR) improvement and up to 15dB of interference mitigation versus competing AP solutions.  

Ruckus 7982 Highlights include:

• Support for up to 500 concurrent Wi-Fi clients
• Theoretical throughput of 450Mbps per radio

• Three-stream MIMO 3x3:3
• Concurrent dual-band (5GHz/2.4GHz) support
• Innovative channel selection delivers up to 50% capacity gain
• Up to 4x extended range and coverage
• Reliability enhanced by dual polarized adaptive antenna arrays with 21 antenna elements and 3000+ antenna patterns 
• Supports isochronous, multicast IP video streaming
• 4 queues per client station
• Reduced cost through smart mesh networking
• Admission control/load balancing
• Differentiated services supported with 16 BSSIDs, QoS and security
• Supports WEP, WPA-PSK (AES), 802.1X
• Dynamic PSK and Zero-IT
• Supports captive portal and guest accounts
• Supports RADIUS and Active Directory

Note: Ruckus APs do not come with power supplies so you will either need a POE injector, an optional power supply or a POE switch.