Name: RUCKUS Ethernet Switches
Price: 835 USD
Rating: 1.6 (21 reviews)
Author: CommScope

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Now from CommScope, the RUCKUS® ICX family of fixed form-factor switches work together to simplify network set-up and management, enhance security, and minimize troubleshooting, offered as low-latency, non-blocking architecture that provide throughput for demanding applications.

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RUCKUS Ethernet Switches

Ethernet switches are fundamental networking devices that connect multiple devices on a local area network (LAN) and forwards data packets between them. Unlike hubs, they use MAC addresses for efficient, targeted packet delivery, reducing network congestion and improving performance. Modern switches support features like Power over Ethernet (PoE), VLANs, and Layer 3 routing. Explore user reviews and comparisons to find the best Ethernet switch for your network infrastructure.

Ethernet Switches

Likelihood to Recommend

CommScope

Features common across Ethernet switches.

Power over Ethernet (PoE)

Allows users to power devices directly from the Ethernet switch.

Management Interface

The Interface allows for configuration and monitoring of the devices on your network.

Hardware Security

Allows users to implement security capabilities such as access control lists, virtual LANs for segmenting traffic or DDoS protection.

Quality of Service (QoS)

Enables the prioritization of traffic to ensure network performance.

Switch Scalability

Ability to add new switches to the network (possibly through stacking) to enable more bandwidth.

Switch Redundancy

The switch follows a redundancy protocol, such as the parallel redundancy protocol (PRP) or high-availability seamless redundancy (HSR) to ensure network performance in the event of a device or power failure.

Link Aggregation (LACP)

Allows users to combine Ethernet links, resulting in more bandwidth, better load balancing, and redundancy.

Dropbox

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TrustRadius

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.

Netgear Ethernet Switches and Cisco AS5800 Series (Discontinued)

VMware ESXi, Malwarebytes, Dropbox, LastPass

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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Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches, Fortinet FortiGate, Cisco Catalyst 2960-L Series Switches

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

Cisco ASA, HP ProLiant DL, HPE Nimble Storage

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 Ethernet Switches
Formerly Brocade ICX Switches

Overview

What is RUCKUS Ethernet Switches?