WS-C3850-12XS-E Catalyst 3850 Switch SFP+

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WS-C3850-12XS-E Overview

Cisco Catalyst C3850-12XS-E Switch Layer 3 - 12 SFP/SFP+ - 1G/10G - IP Services- Wireless controller - managed- stackable WS-C3850-12XS-E

Overview
WS-C3850-12XS-E Overview

Cisco Catalyst WS-C3850-12XS-E, Managed, Rack mounting

WS-C3850-12XS-E switch provides 12 ports 10Gbps SFP+ connection with upgradeable IP services image and build in wireless controller provide fully convergence between wired and wireless on a single platform. It only supports 4 × 10 Gigabit Ethernet network module uplinks option.

Quick Specs

Product Code

WS-C3850-12XS-E

Enclosure Type

1 RU

Feature Set

IP Service

Network SFP uplink module selection

C3850-NM-4-10G

Ports

12 x 10/100/1000 10G SFP+ Optical ports

Maximum stacking number

9

Stack bandwidth

480 Gbps

Forwarding Performance

227.28Mpps

Switching Capacity

320Gbps

RAM

4 GB

Flash Memory

4 GB 

Dimensions

44.5 cm x 45.0 cm x 4.45 cm

Product Details

Figure 2 shows the front panel of the WS-C3850-12XS-E.

WS-C3850-12XS-E Front Panel

Note:

UID (blue beacon)

USB Type A storage port

Mode button

12 ports of 10G SFP+

Status LEDs

Network SFP uplink module slot

USB mini-Type B (console) port

· The switch supports one hot-swappable network module that provides uplink ports to connect to other devices. The switch should only be operated with either a network module or a blank module installed.

Figure 3 shows the back panel of the WS-C3850-12XS-E switch.

WS-C3850-12XS-E Back Panel

Note:

Ground connector

StackWise port connector

CONSOLE (RJ-45 console port)

StackPower connector

Fan module

Power supply modules

MGMT port

Figure 4 shows the StackWise-480 and StackPower connectors.

IP service feature set can only stack with other Catalyst 3850 Series IP service switches. Power stack capacity is supported by Cisco Stackpower technology to provide power redundancy among stacking members.

StackWise-480

The Modules and Accessories

Models

Description

C3850-NM-4-10G

Cisco 3850 Series 4 x 10GE Network Module

PWR-C1-350WAC

Cisco 3850 Series Power Supply 350W AC

PWR-C1-350WAC/2

Cisco 3850 Series Secondary Power Supply 350W AC Config 1 Secondary Power Supply

STACK-T1-50CM=

Cisco StackWise-480 50cm stacking cable for Cisco Catalyst 3850 series switch

STACK-T1-1M=

Cisco StackWise-480 1m stacking cable for Cisco Catalyst 3850 series switch

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Models

WS-C3850-12XS-E

WS-C3850-12S-E

Feature Set

IP Service

IP Service

Ports

12 ports of 10G SFP+ Ethernet fiber

connection with Flexible Netflow feature

12 ports of SFP Ethernet fiber

connection with Flexible Netflow feature

Network SFP

uplink module selection

C3850-NM-4-10G

C3850-NM-4-1G

C3850-NM-2-10G

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Why Upgrade to Catalyst 9300? | See the Catalyst 9300 Series

Catalyst 3850, Stackable, 12 Port, SFP+, 350W, 1 RU, IP Services feature set

  • Managed SNMP v1, SNMP v2c, SNMP v3
  • Quality of Service (QoS) support
  • MAC address table: 32000 entries
  • Access Control List (ACL)
  • Rack mounting Stackable

Summary Description

Cisco Catalyst WS-C3850-12XS-E, Managed, Rack mounting

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Specification

WS-C3850-12XS-E Specification

WS-C3850-12XS-E Specification

model info:

WS-C3850-12XS-E

enclosure type

Rack-mountable - 1U

Ports

12 x SFP+ ports

Network management Interface

● Ethernet management port: RJ-45 connectors, 4-pair Cat-5 UTP cabling
● Management console port: RJ-45-to-DB9 cable for PC connections

Available PoE Power

None

Switching Capacity

320Gbps

Maximum stacking number

9

Stack Bandwidth

480Gbps

Forwarding Performance

227.28Mpps

FNF entries

48,000 flows

Maximum VLANs IDs

1,000

MAC Address Table Size

32K

CPU

Multicore CPU

RAM

4 G 

Flash Memory

4 G

Wireless

Number of AP per switch/stack

100

Number of wireless clients per switch/stack

2000

Total number of WLANs per switch

64

Wireless bandwidth per switch

up to 20Gbps 

Supported Aironet AP series

3600, 3500, 2600, 1600, 1260, 1140, 1040

Expansion / Connectivity

Console ports

USB (Type-B), Ethernet (RJ-45)

Expansion Slot(s)

1 network module slot and 1 power redundant slot

Network Modules Selection

● C3850-NM-4-1G: 4 x 1G uplinks network module
●C3850-NM-2-10G: 2 x 10G or 4 x 1G uplinks network module 

Stacking cable

●STACK-T1-50CM StackWise stacking cable with a 0.5 m length
●STACK-T1-1M StackWise stacking cable with a 1.0 m length
●STACK-T1-3M StackWise stacking cable with a 3.0 m length

Stack Power Cable (recommended)

●CAB-SPWR-30CM stack power cable with a 30CM length
●CAB-SPWR-150CM stack power cable with a 150CM length

Power supply

PWR-C1-350WAC

Power Device

Power supply - redundant - plug-in module

Power Redundancy

optional

Voltage range (Auto)

100V-240V

Power Consumption of standalone(in Watts)

109.75 (Max)

Miscellaneous

Width

17.5 Inches (44.5 cm)

Depth

17.7 Inches (45.0 cm)

Height

1.75 Inches (4.45 cm)

Weight

12.9 Pounds (5.8 Kg)

Rack Mounting Kit

optional

 MTBF in hours

371,440

Compliant Standards

● IEEE 802.1D Spanning Tree Protoco
● IEEE 802.1p CoS Prioritization
● IEEE 802.1Q VLAN
● IEEE 802.1s
● IEEE 802.1w
● IEEE 802.1X
● IEEE 802.1X-Rev
●IEEE 802.11
● IEEE 802.1ab (LLDP)
● IEEE 802.3ad
● IEEE 802.3x full duplex on 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and 1000BASE-T ports

● IEEE 802.3 10BASE-T
● IEEE 802.3u 100BASE-TX
● IEEE 802.3ab 1000BASE-T
● IEEE 802.3z 1000BASE-X
● RMON I and II standards
● SNMP v1, v2c, and v3

System software / license

System software

IOS IP Services

EnergyWise license

ENERGY-MGMT, ENERGY-MGT-100-K9

Access Point Licenses

●L-LIC-CT3850-UPG: Primary upgrade license SKU for Cisco 3850 wireless controller (e-delivery)
●L-LIC-CTIOS-1A: 1 access point adder license for Cisco IOS Software based wireless controller (e-delivery)
●LIC-CT3850-UPG: Primary upgrade license SKU for Cisco 3850 wireless controller (paper license)
●LIC-CTIOS-1A: 1 access point adder license for the Cisco IOS Software based wireless controller (paper license)

Features

●RPS Support ● Jumbo Frames ● VLANS ●Voice Vlan ●VTPv2 ●CDPv2 ●LLDP ● 802.3ad LACP and PAgP 

● PVST/PVST+ ● 802.1W/802.1S ●Port Fast/Uplink Fast  ●Dynamic Trunking Protocol (DTP) ● port CoS Trust

and Override ● Trusted Boundary ● ACL Classification ●ingress Policing ● Auto QoS ● Per VLAN policies 

● 802.1p queues ● Scheduling ● Priority Queuing ● Configure CoS Priority Queues ●Configure CoS Priority

Queues ● Configure Queue Weights ● Configure Buffers and Thresholds ●Class & Policy Maps ● Modify CoS

and DSCP Mapping ● Weighted Tail Drop ● IGMPv1,v2,v3 and MLDv1, v2 ● DHCP server ● DSCP transparency 

● HSRP, VRRP, BLGP ● RIPv1, v2 EIGRP, PIM  OSPF, OSPFv3, EIGRPv6, BGPv4, IS-ISv4  ● VRF-lite  ● PIM-SM/DM,

PIM sparse-dense mode, SSM ● Flexible Netflow

Advanced Network security

● Port security ● DHCP snooping ●Dynamic ARP inspection (DAI) ● IP source guard ●The Unicast Reverse Path Forwarding (uRPF) 
● Bidirectional data support on a SPAN ● User authentication
● Private VLAN  ●Router and VLAN ACLs  ● complete identity and security
● Multidomain authentication ● MAC address notification 
● IGMP filtering ● Cisco security VLAN ACL 
● Secure Shell (SSH) Protocol, Kerberos, and Simple Network Management Protocol Version 3 (SNMPv3) 
● Port-based ACLs ● TrustSec SXP ● IEEE 802.1ae
● TACACS+ and RADIUS authentication ● Cisco standard and extended IP security router ACLs
●  Bridge protocol data unit (BPDU) Guard 
● Spanning Tree Root Guard (STRG) ● Wireless end-to-end security 

Management

●BRIDGE-MIB ●CISCO-AUTH-FRAMEWORK-MIB
●CISCO-BGP4-MIB, BGP4-MIB ●CISCO-BRIDGE-EXT-MIB
●CISCO-BULK-FILE-MIB ●CISCO-CABLE-DIAG-MIB
●CISCO-CALLHOME-MIB ●CISCO-CEF-MIB
●CISCO-CIRCUIT-INTERFACE-MIB 
●CISCO-ENTITY-VENDORTYPE-OID-MIB 
●CISCO-CONTEXT-MAPPING-MIB
●CISCO-DEVICE-LOCATION-MIB ●CISCO-DHCP-SNOOPING-MIB 
●CISCO-EIGRP-MIB
●CISCO-EMBEDDED-EVENT-MGR-MIB 
●CISCO-ENTITY-FRU-CONTROL-MIB ●CISCO-ENTITY-SENSOR-MIB
●ENTITY-MIB ●CISCO-ERR-DISABLE-MIB
●CISCO-CONFIG-COPY-MIB ●CISCO-FLOW-MONITOR-MIB
●CISCO-FTP-CLIENT-MIB ●CISCO-HSRP-EXT-MIB
●CISCO-HSRP-MIB ●CISCO-IETF-ISIS-MIB
●CISCO-IF-EXTENSION-MIB ●CISCO-IGMP-FILTER-MIB
●CISCO-CONFIG-MAN-MIB ●CISCO-IP-CBR-METRICS-MIB
●CISCO-IPMROUTE-MIB ●CISCO-IP-STAT-MIB
●CISCO-IP-URPF-MIB ●CISCO-L2L3-INTERFACE-CONFIG-MIB 
●CISCO-LAG-MIB ●CISCO-LICENSE-MGMT-MIB 
●CISCO-MAC-AUTH-BYPASS-MIB ●CISCO-MAC-NOTIFICATION-MIB 
●CISCO-MDI-METRICS-MIB ●CISCO-FLASH-MIB ●CISCO-OSPF-MIB 
●CISCO-OSPF-TRAP-MIB ●CISCO-PAE-MIB ●CISCO-PAGP-MIB
●CISCO-PIM-MIB ●CISCO-PING-MIB ●CISCO-PORT-QOS-MIB 
●CISCO-PORT-SECURITY-MIB●CISCO-PORT-STORM-CONTROL-MIB 
●CISCO-POWER-ETHERNET-EXT-MIB ●CISCO-PRIVATE-VLAN-MIB
●CISCO-PROCESS-MIB ●CISCO-PRODUCTS-MIB●CISCO-RF-MIB 
●CISCO-RTP-METRICS-MIB ●CISCO-RTTMON-MIB 
●CISCO-SMART-INSTALL-MIB

●CISCO-SNMP-TARGET-EXT-MIB ●CISCO-STACKMAKER-MIB
●CISCO-MEMORY-POOL-MIB ●CISCO-STP-EXTENSIONS-MIB
●CISCO-SYSLOG-MIB ●CISCO-TCP-MIB ●CISCO-UDLDP-MIB
●CISCO-VLAN-IFTABLE-RELATIONSHIP-MIB ●CISCO-VLAN-MEMBERSHIP-MIB ●CISCO-VTP-MIB ●EtherLike-MIB
●HC-RMON-MIB ●IEEE8021-PAE-MIB ●IEEE8023-LAG-MIB
●IF-MIB ●IGMP-MIB ●IGMP-STD-MIB ●IP-FORWARD-MIB
●IP-MIB ●IPMROUTE-STD-MIB ●LLDP-EXT-MED-MIB
●LLDP-MIB ●NOTIFICATION-LOG-MIB
●OLD-CISCO-MEMORY-MIB ●CISCO-CDP-MIB
●POWER-ETHERNET-MIB ●RMON2-MIB
●RMON-MIB ●SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB ●SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB
●SNMP-MPD-MIB ●SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB ●SNMP-PROXY-MIB
●SNMP-TARGET-MIB ●SNMP-USM-MIB ●SNMPv2-MIB
●SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB ●TCP-MIB ●UDP-MIB
●CISCO-IMAGE-MIB ●CISCO-STACKWISE-MIB
●AIRESPMACE-WIRELESS-MIB ●CISCO-LWAPP-IDS-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-AP-MIB ●CISCO-LWAPP-CCX-RM-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-CLIENT-ROAMING-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-DOT11-CCX-CLIENT-DIAG-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-DOT11-CCX-CLIENT-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-DOT11-CLIENT-CCX-REPORTS-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-DOT11-CLIENT-MIB ●CISCO-LWAPP-DOT11-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-DOWNLOAD-MIB ●CISCO-LWAPP-LINKTEST-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-MFP-MIB ●CISCO-LWAPP-MOBILITY-EXT-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-QOS-MIB ●CISCO-LWAPP-REAP-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-ROGUE-MIB ●CISCO-LWAPP-RRM-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-SI-MIB ●CISCO-LWAPP-TSM-MIB
●CISCO-LWAPP-WLAN-MIB ●CISCO-LWAPP-WLAN-SECURITY-MIB

Technical Support and Services

● Cisco SMARTnet Service ● Cisco Smart Foundation Service ● Cisco SP Base Service ● Cisco Focused Technical Support Services

Environmental Ranges

With AC power supply Operating environment and altitude

Operating temperature up to 5000 ft (1500 m)

23ºF to 113ºF (-5ºC to +45ºC)

Operating temperature up to 10,000 ft (3000 m)

23ºF to 104ºF (-5ºC to +40ºC)

Short-term exception at sealevel with single fan failure

23ºF to 113ºF (-5ºC to +45ºC)

Short-term exception up to 5000 feet (1500 m)

23ºF to 122ºF (-5ºC to 50ºC)

Short-term exception up to 10,000 feet (3000 m)

23ºF to 113ºF (-5ºC to 45ºC)

With DC power supply Operating environment and altitude (NEBS)

Operating temperature up to 6000 ft (1800 m)

23ºF to 113ºF (-5ºC to +45ºC)

Operating temperature up to 10,000 ft (3000 m)

23ºF to 104ºF (-5ºC to +40ºC)

Operating temperature up to 13,000 ft (4000m)

23ºF to 95ºF (-5ºC to 35ºC)

Short-term exception up to 6,000 feet (1800 m)

23ºF to 131ºF (-5ºC to +55ºC)

Short-term exception up to 10,000 feet (3000 m)

23ºF to 122ºF (-5ºC to +50ºC)

Short-term exception up to 13,000 feet (4000 m)

23ºF to 113ºF (-5ºC to +45ºC)

Short-term exception at sealevel with single fan failure

23ºF to 113ºF (-5ºC to +45º)

Storage environment

 -40ºF to 160ºF (-40ºC to 70ºC)

Operating altitude

Up to 13,000 Feet (Up to 4000 Meters)

Storage altitude

Up to 15,000 Feet (Up to 4573 Meters)

Operating relative humidity

10% to 95% noncondensing

Storage relative humidity

10% to 95% noncondensing

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the primary port capabilities of the Cisco WS-C3850-12XS-E? +
This model features 12 fixed SFP/SFP+ ports, providing versatile connectivity options for both 1G and 10G fiber uplinks or downlinks. It is specifically designed for high-density fiber environments, allowing enterprise networks to maintain high-speed throughput while benefiting from the flexible performance of SFP+ pluggable modules.
Does the WS-C3850-12XS-E support integrated wireless controller functionality? +
Yes, this switch includes built-in wireless controller capabilities, enabling it to act as a centralized management point for your wireless access points. By offloading wireless traffic directly to the switch, it simplifies network architecture and enhances the overall efficiency of your unified wired and wireless network deployments.
What routing features are included with the IP Services license on this switch? +
The IP Services license provides a robust set of Layer 3 routing protocols, including advanced features such as OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, and IS-IS. This level of software functionality is ideal for core or aggregation layer deployments that require sophisticated routing intelligence, policy-based routing, and high-performance packet forwarding across complex enterprise network segments.
Can the Cisco WS-C3850-12XS-E be combined with other switches in a stack? +
This switch is part of the StackWise-480 technology family, allowing you to stack up to nine members. Stacking creates a unified logical unit with 480 Gbps of stacking bandwidth, which simplifies management, improves resiliency, and ensures that your network can scale efficiently as your bandwidth requirements increase over time.
Is this Layer 3 switch suitable for high-performance data center or campus aggregation? +
With its 12 ports of 10G SFP+ connectivity and comprehensive Layer 3 feature set, this switch is an excellent choice for high-performance aggregation layers in campus networks or top-of-rack deployments in smaller data centers. Its managed architecture ensures granular control over traffic flows and network segmentation.
What is the primary benefit of the managed nature of this Catalyst 3850 switch? +
Being a fully managed switch, the WS-C3850-12XS-E offers extensive configuration options via CLI, SNMP, or Cisco DNA Center. This gives network administrators the ability to implement advanced security, quality of service, and traffic monitoring protocols, ensuring that your network infrastructure remains optimized, secure, and fully aligned with enterprise compliance standards.
How does the WS-C3850-12XS-E handle high-bandwidth traffic scenarios? +
The switch is engineered for high throughput by supporting wire-speed switching across all 12 ports. By utilizing 10G fiber connectivity, it efficiently manages demanding applications, data-intensive tasks, and heavy uplink traffic, preventing bottlenecks and maintaining the low latency required for mission-critical enterprise services and high-density connectivity environments.
Are there specific power or physical requirements for deploying this stackable switch? +
Designed for a standard rack-mount deployment, this 1U switch requires careful consideration of your power budget and cooling needs. Because it is a high-density fiber switch, ensure your site has adequate space for fiber cable management and that your rack environment meets the necessary airflow requirements to maintain optimal thermal operating conditions.
How can I obtain a bulk quote for multiple WS-C3850-12XS-E units? +
For large volume orders or project-based pricing, please contact our dedicated sales team directly. We specialize in providing competitive enterprise pricing for bulk hardware requirements, helping you achieve your network infrastructure goals while remaining within your procurement budget. Simply reach out to us with your requested quantities to receive a custom quote.
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