3650 vs 3850

[ejdrijin1]

Hi,

I am in the process of buying some switches. I am comparing both 3650 and 3850 and I found the 2 below comparisons:

WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS per switching entity (Switch or Stack)  25 vs 50

WIRELESS CLIENTS per switching entity (Switch or Stack) 1000 x 2000

What does the above options mean?

Thanks.

[brselzer]

Hello,

The 3850s support converged wireless. Meaning the 3850 can act as a wireless controller.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/lan/catalyst3850/software/release/16-1/converged_access_deployement_guide/m_conAccess_deploy_guide/converged_access_solution_overview.html

This restrictions would only apply if you were running the 3850 as a wireless controller and would be the number of APs and wireless clients you could have. 

[Julio E. Moisa]

Hi,

WIRELESS ACCESS POINTS per switching entity (Switch or Stack)  25 vs 50

It means a standalone switch will support until 25 access points, an access point could support between 25 and 40 concurrents clients. Now with a stack of switches you can support a max of 50 access points.

WIRELESS CLIENTS per switching entity (Switch or Stack) 1000 x 2000

The maximum wireless cilents supported per switch or stack, a standalone switch could support max: 1000 (25 access points).

It also can depend on the model of the access point. Imagine an access point could support 35 concurrent clients so we could have on a switch: 35x25 = 875 clients passing through that switch. 

Hope it is useful

:-)