About this course
Course Overview
This course provides an in-depth study of the Ruckus ICX family of products and how they are utilized in an enterprise network. The course covers core competencies of configuration, operations and maintenance of Ruckus ICX products. This course also covers core L2/L3 protocol configurations including STP family, OSPF, QoS, and Ruckus proprietary protocols and technology including MCT, VRRPe and FDP
Target Audience
This course is for anyone tasked with installing, configuring, and administrating Ruckus ICX switches.
Course Objectives
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Describe Ruckus ICX hardware
- Configure and implement management protocols on Ruckus equipment
- Configure and implement monitoring and reporting features on Ruckus equipment including syslogs and sFlow
- Perform hardware troubleshooting and support functions
- Perform firmware upgrades
- Configure, implement, and maintain Layer 2 STP protocols (RSTP, MSTP, PVST)
- Configure and manage VLANs, Virtual Ethernet routed interfaces, topology groups, and Q-in-Q
- Configure, deploy and maintain Link Aggregation Groups (LAGS)
- Describe, configure, and maintain Multi-Chassis Trunking (MCT)
- Integrate MCT with VRRPe for redundancy
- Identify PoE-capable products
- Configure and manage Ruckus ICX switches in a PoE environment
- Configure, implement, and maintain the OSPF routing protocol
- Configure, implement, and maintain QoS
Course Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should have a solid understanding of network industry protocols, students may have equivalent multi-vendor certifications in IP/Ethernet (such as Cisco, Juniper, Extreme Networks, Arista, or HP)
