Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series

Switching capacity

176 Gbps on 48-port Gigabit Ethernet model

92 Gbps on 24-port Gigabit Ethernet model

68 Gbps on 12-port Gigabit Ethernet model

640 Gbps on 24-port Multigigabit Ethernet model^*

472 Gbps on 48-port Multigigabit Ethernet model

1280 Gbps on 48-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ model^*

640 Gbps on 24-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ model^*

320 Gbps on 12-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ model^*

Stacking bandwidth

480 Gbps

Total number of MAC addresses

32,000

Total number of IPv4 routes (ARP plus learned routes)

24,000

FNF entries

48,000 flow on 48-port Gigabit Ethernet models

24,000 flows on 12-port and 24-port Gigabit Ethernet models

96,000 flows on 48-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ model

48,000 flows on 24-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ model

24,000 flows on 12-port 10 Gigabit Ethernet SFP+ model

DRAM

4 GB (8 GB on 48-port SFP+ model)

Flash

2 GB (4 GB on 12-port and 24-port SFP+ models, 8 GB on 48-port SFP+ model)

VLAN IDs

4,000

Total Switched Virtual Interfaces (SVIs)

1,000

Jumbo frame

9198 bytes

Total routed ports per 3850 stack

208

Wireless

Number of access points 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 40 Gbps on 48-port Gigabit Ethernet model

Up to 20 Gbps on 24-port Gigabit Ethernet model

Supported Aironet access point series

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

Forwarding rate of switch models (with 2 x 10 Gigabit + 2 x 1 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks for 12-port and 24-port models and 4 x 10 Gigabit Ethernet uplinks for 48‑port models)

Model

Forwarding rate

WS-C3850-12S

50.5 Mpps

WS-C3850-24T

WS-C3850-24P

WS-C3850-24S

68.4 Mpps

WS-C3850-48T

WS-C3850-48P

WS-C3850-48F

130.95 Mpps

WS-C3850-24XU

500 Mpps (80B packets)

WS-C3850-12X48U

460 Mpps (64B packets)

WS-C3850-12XS

227.28 Mpps

WS-C3850-24XS

454.55 Mpps

WS-C3850-48XS

909 Mpps