Ruckus MediaFlex™ 2835

Build “Hotspots at Home” –
With This Centrally-Managed Carrier
Wireless Router.

Carriers looking to extend their broadband networks and network services can now build their business on a Smart Wi-Fi platform – MediaFlex 2835. It turns homes into public or private hotspots, while maintaining customer independence, security, and service. MediaFlex 2835’s expanded Wi-Fi coverage can be used to offer Internet access, voice over Wi-Fi services, and infotainment services, both inside and outside a residence.

Quickly and Cost-Effectively Increases Network Footprint.

Leverages the subscriber’s home or business to broadcast public Wi-Fi services, such as VoIP over Wi-Fi, or private subscriber services such as IPTV
Lets providers use Wi-Fi to blanket areas where pulling facilities to install traditional hostpot equipment is not feasible or is too expensive
Enables providers to offload traffic from their cellular network to higher-speed Wi-Fi networks, for better Wi-Fi range, reliability, and performance

Helps Operators Securely Offer Managed Wi-Fi Services.

Balances overlay services offered by operators with paid-for subscription services used by residential customers
Turns each subscriber home into a secure hotspot for new services
Only Wi-Fi platform of its kind to offer this ability

Offers Range of Access Control and Authentication Schemes.

Allows operator to offer general-purpose Internet access, and limit use of particular SSIDs to UMA, IMS, IPTV, or music and radio streaming
Simplifies service provisioning, so carrier retains control of SSIDs and security parameters configurations
Provides seamless end user experience

Multiple Wi-Fi Networks in the Home

Product

MediaFlex 2835 is a long-range Wi-Fi router that ensures whole home coverage and full-featured support for those bandwidth-hogging multimedia applications. It can be managed remotely over any IP network, and offers four discrete wireless LANs (WLAN) with separate policies. Each WLAN can be limited to support a specific traffic type, or dedicated to a specific carrier service completely controlled by the operator and assigned unique policies. This lets operators:

Exploit unused broadband capacity in the local loop by offering new services
Extend the reach of their network services
Offload traffic from cellular networks onto higher speed Wi-Fi networks

Reliability

Unprecedented Reliability and Diversity Through BeamFlex™.

Each MediaFlex 2835 is equipped with BeamFlex, a smart antenna system that enables client devices to communicate over longer distances at higher speeds than consumer-grade 802.11 products. With BeamFlex, the MediaFlex router reconfigures itself in real-time, detecting and adjusting for both spectral and multi-path interference and network noise. By selecting the optimum antenna pattern from many quality signals for each receiving device, BeamFlex boosts Wi-Fi range and communications speeds. This provides the stability and sustained baseline performance essential for voice and video applications, allowing carriers to offer new, multiple multimedia services.

Flexibility

Flexible Security Options.

MediaFlex 2835 gives service providers a variety of methods for authenticating users. An integrated VPN client allows providers to automatically direct guest traffic over an IPSEC or L2TP tunnel to any VPN concentrator for security and control. And optional bridging of MAC addresses ensures visibility of associated clients.

Administration

Multi-Tier Administration.

Each Ruckus MediaFlex 2835 supports up to four discrete virtual Wi-Fi networks (SSIDs) with unique policy settings (eg. security, QoS, etc.) associated with each Wi-Fi network. Providers can give subscribers complete control over their own home Wi-Fi network while managing service-specific SSIDs that support IPTV, voice over Wi-Fi, public access, or other Wi-Fi services.

Central Management capable by Ruckus FlexMaster

Management

Extra-Strength Remote Management with FlexMaster.

MediaFlex 2835 is completely manageable and controlled by the FlexMaster management platform or a third-party network management system, and integrates a standard TR-069 interface and SNMP support. Once a broadband IP connection is detected, it automatically establishes an SSL tunnel to the FlexMaster system, which sends configuration parameters to the device. Then, MediaFlex 2835 and its services can be completely controlled by the operator from its network operations center.

Specs

Physical Characteristics
Power	• External power adapter • Input: 110-240V AC • Input: 20-240V AC • Output: 12V DC, 1A
Physical Size	14.2cm (L), 12.2cm (W), 7.5cm (H)
Weight	200 grams
Antenna	Internal software-configurable antenna array with six directional, high-gain elements and 63 unique omni antenna patterns
Ethernet ports	5 ports, auto MDX, autosensing 10/100 Mbps, RJ-45
LED display	Power/status, Ethernet status, wireless status, wireless network quality indicator
Environmental conditions	• Operating temperature: 32° F (0°C) - 104°F (40°C) • Operating humidity: 15% - 95% non condensing
Performance and Supported Configurations
Concurrent stations	• Up to 48 (for Open, WEP or WPA-AES) • Up to 22 (for WPA-TKIP)
Target UDP throughput	• 15-20 Mbps (54 Mbps bursts) sustainable throughout a 4000 square foot (272m²) public area
Simultaneous video streams	• 2-3 simultaneous MPEG-2 or 4-6 MPEG-4 standard definition streams or single 10 Mbps+ HD stream with concurrent background traffic
Traffic Management and Quality of Services
Classes of service	• Voice, video, best effort and background
Hardware queues	• 4
Software queues	• 4 per station
Automatic traffic classification	• Automatic type of service tagging for multicast video packets
Authentication / Tunnelling	• L2TP (secure and unsecure) • IPSEC • WISPr (future)
MAC address entries	• 128
Access control	• Layer 2 MAC addresses • Layer 3 IP addresses • Layer 4 TCP ports
Heuristic classification	• Supported
Management (when individually managed)
Configuration	Web user interface, TR-069, Bonjour, CLI (Telnet), SSH HTTP/S, SNMP statistics interface
Login	• User • Administrator
Statistics	• LAN, wireless and associated stations (accessible via Web UI) • Accessible via Web UI
Software update	• FTP or TFTP, remote auto available • Accessible via Web UI
Wi-Fi
Standards	802.11b/g
Supported data rates	54, 48, 36, 24, 18, 12, 11, 5.5, 2, 1 Mbps
Channels	• US/Canada: 1-11 • Europe (ETSI X30): 1-13 • Japan X41: 1-13
Auto channel selection	Supported
RF power output	• 23 dBm for wireless-B • 23 dBm for wireless-G • Country-specific power settings are configurable
Transmit power control	• Supported
BSSID	• Up to four
Power Save	• Supported
Certifications	FCC (U.S.), IC (Canada), CE (EU), VCCI (Japan), Telec (Japan), C-Tick (Aus/NZ), OFTA (Hong Kong), iDA (Singapore), MIC (Korea), DGT (Taiwan)
Wireless security	WEP, WPA – PSK, WPA-TKIP, WPA2-AES
Routing	DHCP client support, DHCP server support, NAT and PPPoE
Multicast Video
IGMP snooping	• Up to 32 multicast groups • Up to 48 receiving stations
Multicast optimization	• Directs multicast IPTV packets to each receiving station within the designated multicast group using the optimum data rate and antenna selection • Automatic classification into video queues