The Cisco Catalyst 3850 series represents the next evolution of enterprise-class stackable Ethernet and Multigigabit Ethernet switches, enabling full convergence of wired and wireless capabilities on a single platform. Powered by Cisco’s Unified Access Data Plane (UADP) ASIC, this switch offers consistent policy enforcement, application visibility, and optimization. Enhanced by Cisco StackWise-480 technology, it supports PoE+, Cisco UPOE, and offers a variety of downlink interfaces with redundancy in fans and power supplies.