Product Comparison Cisco Catalyst 2960-X/XR Switches and Cisco Catalyst 3650/3850 Switches*

Feature Comparison

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Feature Cisco Catalyst 2960-X/XR Cisco Catalyst 3650 Cisco Catalyst 3850

Stacking bandwidth (Gbps) 80 160 480

Maximum members in stack 8 9 9

Hot-swappable, dual power supply and fan modules 2960-XR but not 2960-X

Cisco StackPower®

Stateful switchover (SSO)

Memory/flash 512MB/128MB 4GB/2GB 4GB/2GB

Power over Ethernet Plus (PoE+) Partial Full Full

Cisco UPOE™

Modular uplinks

Layer 3 support 2960-XR but not 2960-X

Cisco TrustSec®: Security group tag (SGT) SXP

Cisco TrustSec: Cisco® MACsec HW capable HW capable HW capable

Cisco TrustSec: Device sensor 2960-XR but not 2960-X HW capable HW capable

Flexible NetFlow (FNF) Lite

Medianet: IP Service Level Agreement Video Operation (IPSLA VO)

HW capable HW capable

Medianet: Mediatrace HW capable HW capable

Medianet: Performance monitor HW capable HW capable

Quality of service (QoS) Traditional Advanced Advanced

Smart install (director/client) Client

Embedded Event Manager (EEM)

Converged wired/wireless access (integrated wireless controller)

Number of wireless access points supported for converged access per stack/switch

25 50

Service discovery gateway (Bonjour gateway)

Software-defined networking (SDN)/OnePK HW capable HW capable

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