The Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series Switch, with Cisco StackWise-160
Technology, can stack 9 switches and support up to 160 Gpbs stack
bandwidth. The WS-C3650-24TS-L integrates with 24 Ethernet ports and 4 x 1G SFP uplink ports in
IP Base feature set.
Quick Specs
Figure 1 shows the appearance of the Cisco C3650-24TS-S switch.
Table 1 shows the Quick Specs.
| Product Code | WS-C3650-24TS-S |
| Enclosure Type | Rack-mountable - 1U |
| Feature Set | IP Base |
| Uplink Interfaces | 4 x 1G SFP |
| Ports | 24 x 10/100/1000 Ethernet ports |
| Maximum stacking number | 9 |
| Stack bandwidth | 160 Gpbs |
| Forwarding Bandwidth | 41.66Mpps |
| Switching Capacity | 88 Gbps |
| RAM | 4 G |
| Flash Memory | 2G |
| Number of AP per switch/stack | 50 |
| Number of wireless clients per switch/stack | 1000 |
| Dimensions | 44.5 cm x 44.5 cm x 4.4 cm |
| Package Weight | 17.49 Kg |
Converged Wired plus Wireless Access
The Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series is a standalone and stackable access
switching platform that enables wired plus wireless services on a
single Cisco IOS XE Software-based platform. With this, Cisco has
pioneered a host of rich capabilities such as high availability
based on stateful switchover (SSO) on stacking, granular QoS,
security, and Flexible NetFlow (FNF) across wired and wireless in a
seamless fashion. Also, the wired plus wireless features are
bundled into a single Cisco IOS Software image, which reduces the
number of software images that users have to qualify/certify before
enabling them in their network. The single console port for
command-line interface (CLI) management reduces the number of touch
points to manage for wired plus wireless services, thereby reducing
network complexity, simplifying network operations, and lowering
the TCO to manage the infrastructure.
Converged wired plus wireless not only improves wireless bandwidth
across the network but also the scale of wireless deployment. Each
48-port Cisco Catalyst 3650 provides 40 Gbps of wireless throughput
(20 Gbps on the 24-port model). This wireless capacity increases
with the number of members in the stack. This makes sure that the
network can scale with current wireless bandwidth requirements, as
dictated by IEEE 802.11n-based access points and with future
wireless standards such as IEEE 802.11ac. Additionally, the Cisco
Catalyst 3650 distributes the wireless controller functions to
achieve better scalability. Each Cisco Catalyst 3650 switch/stack
can operate as the wireless controller in two modes:
● Mobility agent (MA): This is the default mode in which the Cisco Catalyst 3650 switch
ships. In this mode the switch is capable of terminating the CAPWAP
tunnels from the access points and providing wireless connectivity
to wireless clients. Maintaining wireless client databases and
configuring and enforcing security and QoS policies for wireless
clients and access points can be enforced in this mode. No
additional license on top of IP Base is required to operate in the
mobility agent mode.
● Mobility controller (MC): In this mode, the Cisco Catalyst 3650 switch can perform all the
mobility agent tasks in addition to mobility coordination, radio
resource management (RRM), and Cisco CleanAir® coordination within a mobility subdomain. The mobility controller
mode can be enabled on the switch CLI. IP Base license level is
required when the Cisco Catalyst 3650 switch is acting as the
mobility controller. A centrally located Cisco 5508 Wireless LAN
Controller (WLC 5508), Cisco Wireless Services Module 2 (WiSM2)
(when running AireOS Version 7.3), and Wireless LAN Controller 5760
can also perform this role for larger deployments.
With mobility agents located in the wiring closets providing 40
Gbps of wireless per switch (n x 40 Gbps for a stack of n switches) and mobility controllers managing some of the central
wireless functions, the converged access-based wireless deployment
provides best-in-class scalability for wireless and significantly
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