Ruckus ICX7750-48F 48-Port 1/10 GbE RJ-45 SFP+ Switch with 6x40 GbE QSFP Ports and Modular Interface Slot

Increased Reliability and Availability Through Redundancy

The Ruckus ICX 7750 includes dual internal redundant power supplies. These power supplies are hot-swappable and load-sharing with auto-sensing and auto-switching capabilities (see Figure 5). The hot-swappable power supplies (1+1) and fan assembly (3+1) allow organizations to replace components without service disruption. In addition, several high-availability and fault-detection features help in failover of critical data flows, enhancing overall system availability and reliability.

Ruckus Multi-Chassis Trunking (MCT) supports dual homing of wiring closet access switches, or servers in a rack, to two Ruckus ICX 7750 switches in an MCT peer group, eliminating the risk of a single point of failure. In conjunction with MCT, VRRP-E (the Ruckus extension to VRRP for MCT) provides redundancy and sub-second failover for both Layer 2 and Layer 3. For metro or campus deployments in a ring topology, the Ruckus Metro Ring Protocol (MRP-I and MRPII) prevents Layer 2 loops and enables faster re-convergence than Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) with sub-second failover.

High Availability with Hitless Failover

Ruckus stacking technology helps provide high availability, performing real-time state synchronization across the stack and enabling instantaneous hitless failover to a standby controller in the unlikely event of a failure of the master stack controller. Organizations also can use hot-insertion/removal of stack members to avoid interrupting service when adding a switch to increase the capacity of a stack or replacing a switch that needs servicing. These features provide another level of availability for the campus wiring closet in a compact form factor. In addition to stack-level high availability, Ruckus ICX Switches also support stack-level In Service Software Upgrade (ISSU), a unique capability that enables a stack of Ruckus ICX Switches to go through a software upgrade without service interruption. Additional design features include intake and exhaust temperature sensors and fan spin detection to quickly identify abnormal or failed operating conditions— helping to minimize mean time to repair.

Green Networks Lower TCO

As application data and storage requirements continue to rise exponentially, demand for higher port density and bandwidth grows, along with the number of network devices and power consumption. Organizations seeking to reduce TCO need solutions that can provide higher scalability and density per rack unit, thereby reducing power consumption and heat dissipation.

The Ruckus ICX 7750 addresses those needs with a state-of-the-art ASIC, reversible airflow, automatic fan-speed control, and powerefficient optics to ensure the most efficient use of power and cooling. For low-cost, low-latency, and low-energy-consuming cabling within and between the racks, the switch supports SFP+ direct-attached copper cables at up to 5 meters. For switch-to-switch connectivity, Ruckus ICX 7750 supports low-power consuming SFP+ and 40GBASE-SR4 QSFP+ optical transceivers at up to 100 meters. In high-port-density deployments, these features save significant operating costs.

Advanced QoS Improves Data Traffic Integrity

The Ruckus ICX 7750 offers superior QoS features designed to ensure high reliability services throughout the data center. It can identify, mark, classify, reclassify, and manage traffic based on specific criteria. This enables organizations to classify bandwidth-critical application traffic, discriminating among various traffic flows and enforcing bandwidth policies. After the traffic is classified, organizations have complete control over the method the system uses to service the queues: Weighted Round Robin (WRR), Strict Priority (SP), or a mix of both. For granular control to regulate bandwidth utilization, the Ruckus ICX 7750 can also perform ingress rate limiting and egress rate shaping.

Advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 Features

To provide self-healing topologies in Layer 2 configurations, the Ruckus ICX 7750 supports industry-standard Ethernet protocols, including multiple varieties of STP and link aggregation as well as optic-, link-, and switch-level fault detection and correction features. The advanced Layer 2 and Layer 3 feature set is leveraged from Ruckus FastIron software that have been field-proven in enterprise and data center networks for more than a decade. With rich Layer 3 features enabled, organizations can utilize the Ruckus ICX 7750 in multiple applications.

Multicast-Based Applications

The use of video, financial, and other one-to-many applications requires support for scalable multicast services. The Ruckus ICX 7750 supports IGMPv1/2/3, PIM-SM/SSM/DM, MSDP, Any cast RP, and PIM and IGMP/MLD Snooping for optimized multicast forwarding. In addition, the Ruckus ICX 7750 provides storm-control features to contain and intelligently switch rather than broadcast multicast traffic.

Security Capacbilities

Ruckus ICX 7750 provides robust security through a wide range of advanced features. Organizations can use both regular and extended Access Control Lists (ACLs) to control access to and through data center networks. Organizations can use control policies that permit or deny traffic based on a wide variety of identification characteristics— such as source/destination MAC addresses, source/destination IP addresses, TCP/UDP ports/sockets, and well-known port numbers— further protecting and restricting network access.

For maximum security, the Ruckus ICX 7750 leverages 802.1x security, MAC authentication, port MAC security, and MAC filter enhancements. The Ruckus ICX 7750 implements hardware-based ACL, so security does not adversely affect switching performance. In addition, the Ruckus ICX 7750 provides hardware-based protection against Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks (ICMP flood and TCP SYN) as well as hardware-based private VLAN attacks—with no impact on CPU utilization. BPDU Guard and Root Guard can be used to prevent rogue hijacking of the spanning tree root and maintain a contention-free—and loop-free—environment, especially during dynamic network deployments.

Data Center Top-of-Rack Server Connecivity

The Ruckus ICX 7750 is designed to fit in server racks, consuming only one rack unit. To simplify cabling, the 10 GbE Network Interface Cards (NICs) in the servers connect to the ICX 7750 10 GbE ports by using fiber and SFP+ optical transceivers, SFP+ direct-attached copper cable, or standard copper Ethernet twisted pair cables with 10GBASE-T. If any servers in the rack have only 1 GbE-capable NICs, organizations can connect them to the same ICX 7750 switch by using a 10 GbE port as a 1 GbE port through an SFP or copper port. The Ruckus ICX 7750 ToR switch can connect to the data center middleof-row/end-of-row aggregation chassis with either 10 GbE or 40 GbE, usually through link aggregation.