Who is everyone using? I've usually gone with Cisco. Access at the current job is on Ruckus, but the product line we're on just went End of Sale. I'm going to investigate the Ruckus line that is replacing it, but I feel like now is a good time to check out other options.
Had a lot of issues with stacked switches through Ruckus. Random DHCP forwarding issues, SSH issues that required us to locally zeroize keys often, and even just basic forwarding plane issues.
I'm going to check out:
- Cisco - 2960x (I'm guessing, haven't used them in a minute)
- Ruckus - ICX7150/ICX7250 (currently on ICX6450/ICX6610)
- Arista - they may have a low end offering with POE soon, after acquiring Mojo
- HPE/Aruba - worth considering?
Important features for our environment:
- 1Gb access, 10Gb uplink
- L3/Routing/Ability to add BGP (in certain cases, even if it requires a slightly beefier model)
- POE
- Mid to low price point
- Support included a plus, but not a deal-breaker
- API access/SDN support/some kind of automation support would be a plus (we can obviously just use ansible for most things)
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