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What's New in 20.03

Ease of Troubleshooting: APs and Switches establish an HTTPS session to the cloud controller. IT teams need to allow IN to OUT traffic to the cloud controller IP address. This IP address is now shown in the venue page.

Ease of Guest Access in European Union (EU): In support of Digital Single Market and Gigabit society as envisioned and defined by the European Council, WIFI4EU option is now available in the guest portal.

Ease of Accounting: As Wi-Fi clients roam across access points, a single session ID for RADIUS Accounting is maintained

RESTful APIs: RUCKUS Cloud APIs provide complete access to all RUCKUS Cloud functionality via a user-friendly RESTful Open API. They are partitioned into two namespaces for Wi-Fi and Tenant. Sample working example is also available along with rich API documentation.

Client Health Report: Client Health Report presents a summary picture of a Client's RF Health in a complex RF environment in an easy to consume format. Clients with Good, Average and Poor RF scores are depicted in colored boxes. This report displays client health score which is determined from key metrics such as RSSI, SNR, Client Throughput Estimate and Tx MCS. Powerful filters and charts allow administrators to view the client health over time, across AP groups and venues.

Comparison Report: Comparison report is a powerful tool for admins for comparing data sets across different parts of the network. It allows admins to define filters to select portions of the network and compare 20+ attributes across them.

Ability to Save Filters: Ability to create filters to allow admins to focus their investigation to a specific portion of the network. These filters can now be saved and reused eliminating unnecessary steps. Admins now has the ability to filter application by 5 GHz radio type in the Applications report and Data Explore--> Application Cube.

What's New in 20.02

There are no changes since RUCKUS Cloud Release 20.02.

What's New in 20.01

Ruckus Cloud version 20.01 introduces Switch Management for the very first time providing a single pane of glass management solution for your Wi-Fi and Wired networking needs.

The new RUCKUS Cloud by CommScope now manages Wi-Fi6 (802.11ax) and 802.11ac access points, ICX switches 7150, 7650, 7850 and includes long-term reporting as well as ML/AI based analytics. Ruckus cloud along with the switches and access points it supports is an IoT ready solution and introduces several exciting features. These are offered at cloud scale with high performance, reliability and 24x7 support.

• Single pane of glass management for Unified Wired, Wireless and Analytics
• Ruckus Cloud Analytics (Existing cloud customers get a free trial)
• New and enhanced Managed Service Provider (MSP) friendly licensing with custom MSP URL and custom mobile app
• Scheduled Cloud Software Update allowing customers to choose their own software upgrade schedule
• Modern RESTful Northbound Public APIs that enable customers/partners to automate and innovate around Ruckus Cloud
• 30+ Reports with double the storage up to 12 months
• With Ruckus Analytics, a full BIG data explorer solution is available to the customers to slice and dice data and can create nearly limitless visualizations of data
• Ruckus Cloud is built around modern Kubernetes and micro-services architecture to provide cloud scale, performance and reliability
• New mobile app - RUCKUS Cloud by Commscope - is now available in Apple App Store and Google Play Store

Beginning this release, you will be able to manage all ICX 7150, 7650, and 7850 series switches. The switch management includes both monitoring and configuration.

Monitoring:

In addition, all the existing features like floor plans for a venue, adding administrators, access to network clients, are all extended to include switch information.

Configuration: