Cisco ONE Software is an innovative method for users to buy and use Cisco’s infrastructure software. It provides an easy consumption model, focused on frequent user scenarios in the data center, WANs, and LANs.

Cisco ONE Software and services supply users with 4 key advantages:

• Software suites which tackle typical user scenarios at an affordable cost
• Investment defense of their software purchase via software services-empowered license transportability
• Access to continuing modernization and new technology via Cisco Software Support Service (SWSS)
• Flexible licensing models to effortlessly allocate the user’s software expense over time

For ordering information for Cisco ONE Software for the Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches, go to http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/products/software/one-access/switching-part-numbers.html.

Available Licenses for the Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switches

Software Licenses
C3850-12-S-E	Cisco Catalyst 3850 12-port IP Base to IP Services RTU paper license
C3850-24-L-S	Cisco Catalyst 3850 24-port Switch LAN Base to IP Base RTU paper license
C3850-48-L-S	Cisco Catalyst 3850 48-port Switch LAN Base to IP Base RTU paper license
C3850-24-L-E	Cisco Catalyst 3850 24-port LAN Base to IP Services RTU paper license
C3850-48-L-E	Cisco Catalyst 3850 48-port LAN Base to IP Services RTU paper license
C3850-24-S-E	Cisco Catalyst 3850 24-port IP Base to IP Services RTU paper license
C3850-48-S-E	Cisco Catalyst 3850 48-port IP Base to IP Services RTU paper license
L-C3850-24-L-S	Cisco Catalyst 3850 24-port LAN Base to IP Base RTU electronic license
L-C3850-48-L-S	Cisco Catalyst 3850 48-port LAN Base to IP Base RTU electronic license
L-C3850-24-L-E	Cisco Catalyst 3850 24-port LAN Base to IP Services RTU electronic license
L-C3850-48-L-E	Cisco Catalyst 3850 48-port LAN Base to IP Services RTU electronic license
L-C3850-24-S-E	Cisco Catalyst 3850 24-port IP Base to IP Services RTU electronic license
L-C3850-48-S-E	Cisco Catalyst 3850 48-port IP Base to IP Services RTU electronic license
L-C3850-12-S-E	Cisco Catalyst 3850 12-port IP Base to IP Services RTU electronic license
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)

 

Access Point Licensing for Cisco Catalyst 3850: An access point license is necessary for Cisco Catalyst 3850 switches functioning in mobility controller mode. No access point license is necessary for a Catalyst 3850 switch functioning in mobility agent mode. This feature is included in the IP Base feature set. Other equipment which can function as a mobility controller include the WLC 5760, WLC 5508, and WiSM2 wireless controllers. Access point licenses can be relocated only amongst two Catalyst 3850 switches or amongst 3850 and 5760 controllers and vice versa.

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LAN Base: This provides Enterprise access layer 2 switching features

●   IP Base: This provides Enterprise access layer 3 switching features

●   IP Services: This provides Advanced enterprise layer 3 switching (IPv4 and IPv6) features

1. The LAN Base feature set provides improved intelligent services for example wide-ranging Layer 2 features, supporting up to 255 VLANs.

2. The IP Base feature set supplies entry-level basic enterprise services in addition to all the standard LAN Base features, supporting 1K VLANs. IP Base also provides with the support for wireless controller functionality (mobility agent and mobility controller roles; additional access point license is necessary for the mobility controller role), routed access, smart operations, FNF, etc.

3. The IP Services feature set supplies full enterprise services including advanced Layer 3 features like EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, PIM, and IPv6 routing including OSPFv3 and EIGRPv6. All the software feature sets have support for advanced security and MQC-based Quality of Service (QoS).

The Catalyst 3850 Series Switches having a LAN Base feature set can only be stacked with other Catalyst 3850 Series LAN Base networking switches. The same goes for IP Base and IP Services. A mixed stack of LAN Base switches with IP Base or IP Services feature set will not be supported.

The 12-port and 24-port SFP+- and SFP-based models along with the 48-port SFP+ model can only be ordered with IP Base or IP Services licenses. Consequently, to stack with the LAN Base models, they must be configured in LAN Base mode from the CLI.

Users can transparently upgrade the software feature sets in the Catalyst 3850 Series Switches via Cisco IOS Software CLI utilizing the right to use (RTU)-based software upgrade procedure. Software activation empowers the Cisco IOS Software feature sets. Based on the license type, Cisco IOS Software triggers the applicable feature set. License types can be modified, or upgraded, to trigger a different feature set.

Software Policy for Catalyst 3850 Series Switches

Users with Cisco Catalyst LAN Base and IP Base software feature sets will be supplied with maintenance updates and bug fixes developed to uphold the acquiescence of the software with available specifications, release notes, and industry standards compliance as long as the original end user continues ownership or use of the product, or up to one year from the end-of-sale (EOS) date for that product, whichever happens first. Users having licenses for Cisco IP Services software images need a service support contract like Cisco SMARTnet Service to be able to download updates. This policy takes the place of any preceding warranty or software statement and is subject to alteration without notice.

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