Name: Ruckus ICX Switches
Price: 835 USD
Rating: 9.9 (20 reviews)
Author: ARRIS

Customer Engagement

Help Desk

Web and Video Conferencing

Customer Support

Functional Testing

Development

Business Intelligence (BI)

Collaboration

Contract Analysis

Enterprise Search

Enterprise

Accounting

CTRM

Financial Research

Financial Risk Management

Finance and Accounting

Applicant Tracking

Compensation Management

Corporate Learning Management

HR Management

On-Demand Payment

Payroll

Resume Parsing

Talent Intelligence

Talent Management

Workforce Analytics

Workforce Management

Human Resources

3D Printers

3D Printing

API Design

Cloud Migration

Cloud Storage

Component Content Management

Configuration Management

Data Pipeline

Database DevOps

DevOps

Disk Cloning

Fraud Detection

Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS)

Interoperability

M2M Application Development

Managed Public Cloud Infrastructure

Network Performance Monitoring

Product Implementation Services

Relational Database Management Systems

SaaS Backup

Information Technology

A/B Testing

Ad Serving & Retargeting

All-in-One Marketing

Content Management

Content Marketing

Data Management

Digital Experience Platforms (DXP)

Email Marketing

Location Intelligence

Marketing Attribution

Marketing Automation

Referral Marketing

Search Marketing Intelligence

Social Media Management

Social Media Publishing

Survey & Forms Building

Web Analytics

Marketing

Project Management

Professional Services

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Intelligent Virtual Assistant

Sales Enablement

Sales Training

Sales

Data Loss Prevention

Security

Awards Management

Construction Accounting

Construction Takeoff and Estimating

Digital Forensics

Fleet Management

Hospital Management

Insurance Agency Management

Veterinary

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Ruckus acquired the ICX series of campus switches, and in turn Ruckus was acquired by ARRIS in December 2017.

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Ruckus ICX Switches

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Bit pricey

Cli commands

Quite difficult

Web interface

Easily set

Set up

Easily set up

Easy to configure

Command line

High end

Command line interface

Cisco switches

Excellent performance

Home

We have standardized the use of Ruckus ICX switches throughout the entire company. The business problems addressed by Ruckus ICX switches are that they are easier to configure than our Cisco switches were, they are easy to place into a logical stack, and they have an extremely wallet-friendly price point. They've done everything we've asked them to do. The transition from Brocade to Ruckus (company) was smooth and transparent. Both Brocade and Ruckus have excellent support.

They are relatively easy to configure and to maintain.
They have all of the high-end configuration capabilities as Cisco switches.
The switches have excellent performance and reliability.

I don't particularly care for some of the licensing complexity.
When you first power on the switches, they are quite loud. This might be minor if the switches are all in a server room but some of ours are in user areas and it's quite offputting when we reboot or power cycle a switch.
I wish that more than 12 switches could be in a stack. It seems like an arbitrary limitation.

We replaced our Cisco, Netgear, and Dell switches with Ruckus ICXs. It has been smooth and transparent to users.
We've removed the complexity of dealing with Cisco switches from our environment.
The price per unit is very favorable and therefore we have moved everything, even phones, to Ruckus switches.

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These switches perform amazingly at the access layer, aggregate, or even as a router. Solid performance, reliable, and cost-effective. Support is first class with both their onsite support and telephone support. The ability to Interop with any other vendor without difficult administration or clumsy CLI/WebGUI.

Documentation
Built in Help for commands
Consistency between models

Equipment just runs
Sometimes past EOL/EOS
Firmwares just work

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We use Ruckus ICX switches in a managed environment for VLANs. We have a VMware environment, and use the hosts to the SAN through the ICX switches 10GB ports. The 1GB ports connect through to our F5 load balancers and from there to our Cisco firewalls. We created VLANs for the host to SAN connections to direct traffic specifically between them. We set up management ports to manage via the GUI. Although the CLI is what I use primarily, it's nice to see the GUI for stats when I am watching other parts or that network. Otherwise, I use unused ports for hooking unmanaged equipment into my network.

VLANs are easily set up, via the GUI or Command line interface.
The 10 GB ports work flawlessly.
The commands are easy enough to learn.

Licensing for the 10GB ports is a bit pricey, but that was 5 years ago, so things may have changed
The CLI commands are slightly different than typical Cisco commands
Their rack mounting was not the prettiest in the world

These switches are very good in the virtual environment. We have a highly reliable network in part because of these switches
The high uptime allows the business to offer reliable always-on connectivity to our clients
Speeds are fantastic, especially in a big data environment where speed is crucial to our remote client base

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These are in use in two small Catholic schools that I personally service. These units are the only vendor used at one school, and a secondary switching solution. The E-rate discounts for the Ruckus ICX switches were incredibly good (80%), which was a huge drive for the technology upgrades. It addresses issues of port density, speed, and connectivity.

Port Density/cost per port
Some models auto-stack, which makes connectivity much easier
The E-rate discounts for education are AMAZING

Changing VLANs can be painful
trunk and port channel setups are quite difficult
Better web interface
POE - Needs to be set to auto by default

It took me longer to configure these switches than Cisco, which increases the overall TCO.
LOW, LOW-cost switching. We were able to really stretch our budget. 80% off list is pretty darn good, and we ate it up.
Once it was in place, we've had very few changes, only rare issues with exploits due to it not being actively targeted.

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Ruckus ICX Switches
Formerly Brocade ICX Switches

Overview

What is Ruckus ICX Switches?