Ruijie RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller

Smart Wireless Experience

The Best Identification of Smart Devices

The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller with a built-in portal server intelligently identifies the type of smart device. According to device features, the wireless controller presents a portal authentication page with the appropriate page size and layout. Smart identification of smart devices eliminates the problem of screen size adjustment and offers a better wireless user experience. This technology supports all major operating systems including Apple iOS, Android and Windows.

Fair Scheduling

The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller works with Ruijie APs to offer the same access time for smart devices running different standards such as 802.11g, 802.11n, 802.11ac, etc. This feature solves problems such as high latency and low network speed caused by the use of old wireless LAN cards that are far from the AP. The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller ensures a high-speed wireless network that is fair to all users with any device anywhere and anytime.

Intelligent Load Balancing

On high density wireless LANs, the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller works with Ruijie APs to intelligently distribute users among different APs according to the number of users and data traffic in real time. This feature balances load stress on each AP and increases average bandwidth and Quality of Service (QoS), offering higher network availability. In addition to the role and traffic based balance feature, the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller also allows load balancing in terms of frequency ranges. Because most WiFi devices use 2.4GHz by default while frequencies above 5GHz (802.11a / n / ac) can offer better throughput performance. With frequency based load balancing, Wireless Controller allows users with dual-band devices to connect to 5GHz as the first priority. Bandwidth usage greatly increases 30-40% without additional costs. The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller therefore provides best-in-class high-speed wireless performance for Ruijie clients.

High Performance and Reliability

Centralized or Distributed Smart Switching

The High-Performance Wireless Controller RG-WS6108 can be used at the Layer 2 or Layer 3 level without modifying the native network architecture because it forms an integrated switching architecture with the wireless AP. The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller provides ease in management of switching all AP data.

With industry-leading local forwarding technology, the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller eliminates traditional Wireless Controller traffic constraints. Local forwarding technology enables flexible deployment of data forwarding in AP. This means that the AP can determine whether to forward all data through the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller according to the Service Set ID (SSID) or VLAN of the user, or to send data directly to a wired network for data communication. Local forwarding technology enables large-scale, late-time, and real-time transmission of data over a cable network. With a high 802.11ac throughput, this greatly reduces traffic pressure on the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller. It is also better to complete the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller to accommodate network services with heavy traffic requests such as high definition Video on Demand (VoD) and Voice over Wireless LAN (VoWLAN) in the future.

Intelligent RF Management

The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller allows the AP to scan RF in the wireless network as needed. The AP can scan for frequency bands and wireless channels to identify AP and malicious networks. The AP will send warning notifications to network administrators for immediate action after being discovered, providing network protection at all times. In addition, the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller can control the real-time RF scanning function of the AP to measure signal intensity and interference. The Wireless Controller software also dynamically adjusts traffic load, power, RF range and channel allocation for maximized signal coverage and capacity.

Seamless Roaming Experience

Advanced grouping technology enables real-time synchronization of online information and roaming records of all users among several RG-WS6108 Wireless Controllers. Simply put, user data and authentication are shared in clusters which allows wireless users to roam freely throughout the network. Thus, users can enjoy unlimited and secure roaming experiences with IP addresses and authentication status remaining unchanged. The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller also achieves fast roaming and voice services with clustering technology.

Abundant QoS Policy

The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller supports a variety of QoS policies. For example, Wireless Controllers can set bandwidth limits to give higher priority to important data transmission applications. Wireless Controllers therefore provide guaranteed bandwidth performance for networks of all sizes.

Wireless IPv6 access

The Wireless Controller RG-WS6108 fully supports all IPv6 features and implements IPv6 forwarding on wireless networks. IPv4 and IPv6 users can automatically connect to the wireless controller series via tunnels, allowing IPv6 applications to be covered by wireless networks.

Flexible and comprehensive security policy

Local Authentication

The Wireless Controller RG-WS6108 has a local user database, which offers smooth integration with the default portal server, for easy local authentication for wireless users via web authentication. RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller enables local authentication based on actual user requests, saving costs by getting rid of devices such as external portals and RADIUS servers. Network infrastructure is also very simplified. The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller fully meets the needs of small and medium networks for secure user access.

User Data Encryption

The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller fully supports advanced encryption technology such as Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP), Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP), and Advanced Encryption Standards (AES), ensuring the security of end-to-end data transmission over wireless networks.

Standard Communication Protocol

Encrypted communication between the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller and AP is enabled with international standard Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points (CAPWAP). This function ensures total isolation of the cable network and guarantees high security for real-time communication between the Wireless Controller and the AP. CAPWAP also enables the deployment of third-party access points in the future, offering superior scalability, availability, and maximizing user investment at the same time.

Virtual Wireless Package Technology

With virtual AP technology, the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller can partition multiple SSIDs in the network. Network administrators can separately encrypt and isolate subnets or VLANs that have the same SSID. Thus deployment allows authentication modes and encryption mechanisms to be determined for each SSID.

RF Security

The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller supports the RF probe scanning feature to detect unauthorized access points or other RF interference sources. Once detected, the Wireless Controller will send real-time alerts to the network management system. This provides easy management for network administrators to monitor potential threats and usage status.

Protection Against Viruses and Attacks

The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller provides various internal security mechanisms to effectively prevent and control the spread of viruses and network traffic attacks. The mechanism ensures secure network access only by authorized users. These protection mechanisms include IP / MAC / WLAN binding, hardware ACL control, bandwidth limits based on traffic, etc. The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller is the ideal partner for large campuses, hospitals or corporate networks with high security demands for guest network access.

Secure User Access

The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller supports Web Authentication, allowing users to authenticate using any web browser.

802.1X authentication is another security spotlight. The main difference from web authentication is that 802.1X allows IP / MAC / WLAN binding after authentication. This feature fully guarantees the validity of the user’s identity.

The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller also supports Ruijie RG-SMP (Security Management Platform) to provide insight and control over Ruijie’s network and security devices. RG-SMP offers comprehensive security management in a variety of Ruijie security equipment and allows users to manage office networks of all sizes for various industries, with security compliance requirements in aspects of user identity, host health, and network communication security.

Flexible Authentication Mode

In addition to traditional Web Authentication and 802.1X Authentication, the Ruijie RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller also supports PEAP Authentication, SMS Authentication, and QR Code Authentication.

PEAP authentication allows users to authenticate a password just once. That means users are only asked to enter credentials during their first network visit.

If SMS authentication is adopted, the user enters first with their mobile number and then receives an SMS with the user name and login password for network access.

QR code authentication is another wireless security highlight. After accessing the wireless network, users will get a QR code on their end device and simply ask the authorized staff to scan for network access.

Protection Against ARP Spoofing

Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) detection effectively protects network users from ARP spoofing gateways and host spoofing for secure wireless access. Automatic bonding can be activated in a dynamic and static IP address allocation environment to greatly save labor resources and management costs. The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller can monitor and control the rate of ARP packets sent to prevent the use of dangerous scanning tools, which trigger ARP floods and cause network congestion.

Naughty AP Countermeasures

The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller enables effective AP detection and containment to increase wireless security. Wireless Controller sets the active AP to detect misbehaving, sending probe packets and hearing probe responses from valid APs. Network administrators can therefore easily choose a bad AP from the authorities to ensure wireless network security.

DHCP Security

With a reconnaissance Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller allows DHCP response messages only from trusted ports. Wireless controllers can thus prevent the spread of unauthorized DHCP servers to disrupt the allocation and management of IP addresses and affect the normal operation of the network. With the DHCP monitoring function, the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller can effectively prevent ARP host spoofing and spoofing source IP addresses in a dynamic IP allocation environment by dynamically monitoring ARP and checking source IP addresses.

Information Security Management

To ensure device security and offer protection against attacks, Secure Shell (SSH) and SNMPv3 technology encrypts management information by Telnet and the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). The Wireless Controller RG-WS6108 offers Telnet access control based on the source IP address, offering a high level of granularity in device management. Only IP addresses authorized by the network administrator can enter the Wireless Controller, which further increases the security of the device network management.

Integrated Network Management

Various Management Protocols and Integrated Management Platform

The RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller supports a large number of management modes including Command Line. It offers centralized and efficient planning, deployment, monitoring and management of all APs, with minimized investment costs. Working with Ruijie Smart Network Commander (SNC) which is an all-round network management platform, the RG-WS6108 Wireless Controller provides enriched network management services such as topology creation, AP operating status, online user status, all RF planning networks, location users, security users, link load, device utilization rate, roaming notes and report output. These functions allow the network administrator to monitor and manage the operating status of the entire network in the data center.

Ruijie SNC Unified Topology Diagram

Web Interface Management

The Wireless Controller RG-WS6108 supports a web management interface for air conditioners, which provides simplified wireless configuration and high visibility for all network operations. With an AC web interface, Wireless Controller can also manage APs and related users, achieve user bandwidth control and network access restrictions. Network administrators can therefore plan, operate and maintain wireless networks easily.

Ruijie Smart Web Management Interface

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