Converged Access
Design Session
“Catalyst 3850 & 5760"
Darren Douglas, Chris Miranda, CSE's
Connected Architectures Partner Organization (CAPO)
March 11, 2012
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Deliver an
Uncompromised
User Experience
on Any Workspace
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802.11n
450
Mbps
802.11g
54
Mbps
802.11a, 802.11b
11 Mbps
11Mbps
10Gbps
Future
802.11ac-2
3.5 Gbps
802.11ac-1
1 Gbps
Wireless Access
Begins to Challenge
Wired Port Speeds
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Components
One Policy
with Identity Services Engine (ISE)
• BYOD policy management
• Device profiling and posture
• Guest access portal
One Management
with Cisco Prime 2.0
• Full wired and wireless management
• User/device centric view
•
Intuitive troubleshooting workflows
Catalyst 3850
ISE
Catalyst 4500-E SUP
5760 Wireless Controller
Cisco Prime
Catalyst 3850
•
Industry’s first fully integrated wired
and wireless switch
• Wireless: 480G stack,
50 APs, 2K clients, 40G
• Flexible Netflow, Granular QoS
• First IOS Release: 15.0(1)EZ
Sup 8E on Catalyst 4500E
• 888 Gbps. Sup 7-E equiv TCAM
• Wireless: 40G Capacity,
50 APs, 2K clients
• 8 x 10G SFP+
• FNF, VSS*
5760 Wireless Controller
• Consistent IOS with
Catalyst UA 3850
• 60G, 1K APs, N+1 Redundancy
• FNF, Granular QOS
• First IOS Release: 15.0(1)EZ
B e s t - i n - C l a s s P e r f o r m a n c e , S e c u r i t y, a n d R e s i l i e n c y
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20+ Years of IOS Richness – Now on Wireless
Features:
• 802.11n
• Clean Air
• Video Stream
• Radio Resource
Management (RRM)
• Wireless Intrusion
Prevention System
(WiPS)
• 802.11ac Ready
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Benefits
•Built on Doppler – Cisco’s Innovative
Flexparser ASIC technology
•Eliminates operational complexity
•Single Operating System for wired and
wireless
Features:
• Stacking, Stackpower
• Trustsec/Identity
• AVC/Medianet
• Flexible Netflow
• Granular QoS
• Smart Operations
• EnergyWise
• Virtualization
Note: All features may not be available on
new platforms at introduction but are
expected to be added within 12-18 months
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IOS-XE
• Modern IOS to
enable multi-core
CPU
• Easy customer
migration
• While maintaining
IOS functionality
and look and feel
• Allow hosted
applications like
Wireshark
IOS 12.2(55)SE
IOS XE 15.0(1)EZ
IOSd
Features
Components
Hosted
Apps
WCM
IOS
Features Components
Common Infrastructure / HA
Common Infrastructure / HA
Management Interface
Management Interface
Module Drivers
Module Drivers
Kernel
Kernel
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Wireless
CAPWAP
Termination
Integrated
Controller:
Up to 50 APs
Up to 2000
Clients per Stack
480 Gbps
Stacking Bandwidth
Full POE+
FRU Fans,
Power Supplies
40 Gbps Uplink
Bandwidth
Stackpower
Line Rate on All Ports
* Roadmap
Granular QoS/Flexible NetFlow
Stacking
Native Wireless Controller Support Over IOS
Queues per Port
MAC Addresses
Uplinks
Buffers
Stackpower
Multi-Core CPU for Hosted Services,
Native Flexible Netflow Support
Flash Size
Operating System
64 Gbps
No
4
4,000
2 x 10 Gbps
6 MB/48 port
Yes
No
64 MB
IOS
480 Gbps
Yes
8
32,000
4 x 10 Gbps
12 MB/48 port
Yes
Yes
2 GB
IOS-XE