Third in a series of blogs written by Cisco Switch Product Managers discussing their recently released products.

Does your office or workspace have reduced depth cabinets or not have a traditional wiring closet? Do you have a smaller satellite office but would like to provide the same services as your headquarters? Do you like the existing Catalyst 3K Series switches but find them too cumbersome to fit in a rack?

Today's your lucky day.

Last month, Cisco introduced the Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series Mini Switches. The Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series Mini Switches are less than 12 inches deep and have the same functionality as the larger switches. The small size makes it perfect to deploy in tight wiring cabinets, racks, or places where switch depth is a concern and real estate is at a premium. With these smaller switches, you can avoid spending cash to replace the cabinets or mounting the switch at an angle. As a result, this reduces downtime to the network. The Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series Mini Switches enable the same uniform wired-wireless policy enforcement, application visibility, flexibility, application optimization and superior resiliency as the existing 3650 full-sized switches.

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The Cisco Catalyst 3650 Series Mini Switch come in 24- and 48-port Gigabit Ethernet SKUs and support all the same features as the existing 3650 switches. The only differences between the full-sized switches and the new switches is that Cisco Catlayst 3650 Series Mini Switch comes with fixed fans, fixed power supplies and support for external RPS2300 for redundancy. These Power Over Ethernet (PoE) switches support both PoE (IEEE 802.3af) and PoE+ (IEEE 802.3at standard), providing up to 30W of power. The switches have up to 4