It is reported that Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series will be the replacement for the popular Cisco 3560-X and Cisco 3750-X. We knew that Cisco has unveiled the new Catalyst 3650 access switch designed to converge wired and wireless networking last year. It features line rate 24 and 48 Gigabit Ethernet ports and an integrated wireless controller. It can be stacked in groups of nine switches for support of up to 25 access points and 1,000 clients at 40Gbps. Stacking bandwidth is 160Gbps.
Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series Switches (Front and Back)
Cisco Catalyst 3650 Highlights
- Built on Cisco Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) with programmability to support Cisco ONE Enterprise Networks Architecture and software-defined networking (SDN)
- Integrated wireless LAN controller functionality
- Native Flexible NetFlow (FnF) on all ports
- Granular, hierarchical bandwidth management
- Cisco TrustSec support
About Cisco 3650 Switch Configurations
All Cisco 3650 models can be purchased with LAN Base, IP Base, or IP Services software. All switches ship with a default AC power supply. A DC power supply can be purchased as an option or spare. The base switch does not include any access point licenses. Customers need to purchase the IP Base or the IP Services software-enabled models in order to use the Catalyst 3650 Series Switch as a wireless controller.
All Cisco Catalyst 3650 Switches have fixed, built-in uplink ports. Customers can choose from three types of uplink ports at the time of the switch purchase:
- 4 x Gigabit Ethernet with Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP)
- 2 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet with SFP+ or 4 x Gigabit Ethernet with SFP
- 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet with SFP+ or 4 x Gigabit Ethernet with SFP
4 x Gigabit Ethernet with Small Form-Factor Pluggable (SFP) Uplinks
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Models |
Total 10/100/1000 Ethernet Ports |
Default AC Power Supply |
Available PoE Power |
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WS-C3650-24TS |
24 |
250 WAC |
– |
|
WS-C3650-48TS |
48 |
250 WAC |
– |
|
WS-C3650-24PS |
24 PoE+ |
640 WAC |
390 W |
|
WS-C3650-48PS |
48 PoE+ |
640 WAC |
390 W |
|
WS-C3650-48FS |
48 PoE+ |
1025 WAC |
775 W |
2 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet with SFP+ (or 4 x Gigabit Ethernet with SFP) Uplinks
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Models |
Total 10/100/1000 Ethernet Ports |
Default AC Power Supply |
Available PoE Power |
|
WS-C3650-24TD |
24 |
250 WAC |
– |
|
WS-C3650-48TD |
48 |
250 WAC |
– |
|
WS-C3650-24PD |
24 PoE+ |
640 WAC |
390 W |
|
WS-C3650-48PD |
48 PoE+ |
640 WAC |
390 W |
|
WS-C3650-48FD |
48 PoE+ |
1025 WAC |
775 W |
4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet with SFP+ (or 4 x Gigabit Ethernet with SFP) Uplinks
| Models | Total 10/100/1000 Ethernet Ports | Default AC Power Supply | Available PoE Power |
| WS-C3650-48TQ | 48 | 250 WAC | – |
| WS-C3650-48PQ | 48 PoE+ | 640 WAC | 390 W |
| WS-C3650-48FQ | 48 PoE+ | 1025 WAC | 775 W |
More Benefits of Migrating to Cisco Catalyst 3650 Switches
| Trends | Features | Catalyst
3560-X |
Catalyst
3750-X |
Catalyst 3650 |
Benefits
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Scale/ performance |
Bandwidth per stack |
No stacking |
64 Gbps |
160 Gbps |
Support gigabit access growth
for wired and wireless/802.11ac |
|
10 GE1 uplinks |
2x10GE |
2×10 GE |
4×10 GE or 2×10 GE |
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BYOD/ mobility
|
Integrated wireless LAN controller
|
N/A
|
N/A
|
√ |
Enable converged wired-wireless access for operational simplicity and scale
|
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Common wired-wireless features
|
N/A
|
N/A |
√ |
||
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UADP2 ASIC for wired-wireless convergence |
N/A |
N/A |
√ |
||
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Application visibility across wired-wireless |
N/A |
N/A |
√ |
||
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Hierarchical wireless QoS |
N/A |
N/A |
√ |
||
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Advanced security |
Native Flexible NetFlow |
N/A |
N/A |
√ |
Orchestrate role based access
to corporate resources by an user, with any device, from any location at any time
|
|
Cisco TrustSec/SGT3 for wired |
√ |
√ |
√ |
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Cisco TrustSec/SGT for wireless |
N/A |
N/A |
√ |
||
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Native MACsec encryption |
Need service module |
Need service module |
√ |
||
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Simplicity and SDN |
Common features for wired-wireless |
N/A |
N/A |
√ |
Simplicity and business agility |
|
SmartOperations |
√ |
√ |
√ |
||
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SDN4/programmability: •Cisco onePK ready •OpenFlow ready |
N/A |
N/A |
√ |
||
|
N/A |
N/A |
√ |
|||
|
Other |
Video/collaboration •Medianet |
√ |
√ |
√ |
Uncompromised user
experience: assess, monitor, and troubleshot network proactively |
Note: Cisco Catalyst 3850 offers higher AP support, modular uplinks and StackPower in addition to Cisco Catalyst 3650 features.
- 1 GE-Gigabit Ethernet
- 2 UADP ASIC-Unified Access Data Plane ASIC
- 3 SGT-Security Group Tag
- 4 SDN-Software Defined Networking
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