Ruckus Smartzone 300 and Arista network switches compatiblity, Does Smartzone 300 support NAC or Posture Assessment?

[jammaine_gopez]

Hi, 

 We were planning to implement ruckus wireless solutions with the smartzone 300 controller. I heard also the smartzone can manage the wireless APs and the wired switches. I want to ask if smartzone can manage non ruckus/brocade switches like Arista? Also does smartzone has a NAC/Posture assesment feature?

Kind Regards,
Jam

[nils_newe]

Hi Jam,

you can only manage ICX-Switches with a new Firmware. No ARISTA.
The NAC-Solution is more an onboarding-solution -> Cloudpath

https://ruckus-www.s3.amazonaws.com/pdf/product-info/cloudpath-customer-faq.pdf

BR

Nils

[jammaine_gopez]

Hi Nils,

 Thank you for this valuable information now its time to learn SmartZone lol. Our client was asking if smartzone has a posture assesment feature and I think you answered my question with cloudpath.

Kind Regards,
Jam

[jammaine_gopez]

may I also ask if their will be a problem if I will deploy smartzone and use ruckus wireless APs then use a different brand of switches? Will I still be able to add my APs and manage them? Thanks.

Regards,
Jam

[nils_newe]

Yes, should be no problem. You can find some hints about the discovery "AP and Controller" in the docs (DNS or DHCP-option).

BR

Nils