Cisco Switch : Cisco 2960X vs Cisco 3650 vs Cisco 3850 : Which Access Switch you require?

Today i will discuss about the requirement of the Cisco switch at Access layer. A lot of people 

asking me about the design and the deployment of the Access layer and always been asked 

about the model of the Switch at Access layer.

Always to start with the need of the customer requirement and on the basis of it we can have

 the different models in the infrastructure. There are lot of questions when you are going to 

evaluate the requirement in the customer infrastructure.

 Cisco Access Layer model

Lets talk about the various models of Cisco at Access layers with the
 option of Stack.
We have different models and these models are

• Cisco 2960 Switch
• Cisco 2960-X Switch 
• Cisco 2960-XR Switch 
• Cisco 3650 Switch
• Cisco 3850 Switch

Here we are going to differentiate between three switches and
these switches are Cisco 2960-X/XR, Cisco 3650 Switch and
Cisco 3850 Switch. Below is the table showing the difference
between these 3 switches

Fig 1.2- Cisco Switches

Above table shows and give you the idea where to use which
switch as per the requirement and 

the design of the network. Make sure one of the key factor is
 the next generation network support 

called as Cisco DNA infrastructure which supports in 3650
and 3850 switch but not capable in 

Cisco 2960-X/XR switches.

If you are interested to deploy the DNA cisco architecture
with SDA in the access layer

 you should always go with the Cisco 3k models ( it can be
Cisco 3650 or Cisco 3850

 Switches ) either in 24 ports or in 48 ports models. Prices
are there in the table shown 

the estimate price of both the models with 24 port and 48
port switches.

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