Case Study: Santa Fe College achieves a resilient, high-performance campus network with RUCKUS Networks

Ruckus Helps Santa Fe College Elevate Student Experience

Santa Fe College, a Gainesville, FL community college serving roughly 30,000 students, faced an aging network of Alcatel switches and Cisco routers across 28 buildings, two data centers and multiple remote sites. The legacy Layer 2 design required manual configuration, suffered frequent outages and lacked redundancy, while growing demands for video-rich distance learning, cloud services and IP telephony created a need for higher throughput, automation and centralized management.

The college replaced its core and campus access with Ruckus ICX switches (ICX 7750 cores and ICX 7250 access/stacking) and deployed Ruckus Campus Fabric and long‑distance stacking. The result is a single logical, highly resilient network managed from a central dashboard, with automated provisioning, greatly reduced maintenance, improved security and the capacity to support video, cloud apps and future IP telephony—while extending redundancy across data centers and campus buildings.

Santa Fe College

Dmitry Shevchuk

Network Administrator