Product Comparison
Cisco Catalyst 2960-X/XR Switches and
Cisco Catalyst 3650/3850 Switches*
Feature Comparison
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
*This is a partial list. For more information, visit http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/switches/index.html.
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