Ruckus Wireless has revealed details of Brocade Ruckus ICX 7150 switch, a low cost campus switch for IT customers in the education, hospitality and small-to-medium business (SMB) sectors.
Ruckus is offering ICX 7150 switch in 12, 24 and 48 port 10/100/1000 Mbps models with 1/10 GbE dual-purpose uplink/stacking ports. The switch’s Power over Ethernet (PoE) and Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) capabilities make powering of access points (APs) and other devices along with data connection easy.
The company did not share details about the price. Ruckus Wireless says the campus switch is meant for cost conscious IT buyers in India. Ruckus will be shipping the ICX 7150 switch in February 2017.
Brocade Ruckus ICX 7150 switch features
# Software upgradeable uplink/stacking ports from 1 GbE to 10 GbE
# SDN-enabled with OpenFlow support
# Easy transition to Brocade Campus Fabric for network automation and management simplicity
# Plug-and-play operations for powered devices via LLDP and LLDP-MED protocols
# Auto-configuration ensures error free configuration and accelerates deployment
# Hot-insertion and removal of stack members simplifies operations
# Flow-based network monitoring
# Flexible stacking adds capacity throughout the network without increasing the management load
Access Networks is one of the channel partners of Ruckus Wireless.
“From the ability to upgrade uplinks from 1GbE to 10GbE with a license, long-distance stacking, and the ability to expand our network with other ICX 7000 switch families with Campus Fabric, the ICX 7150 switch does what no other competitor can match for the price,” said Hagai Feiner, founder and CEO, Access Networks.
