C1-C3850-24-S-E

C1-C3850-24-S-E is a Cisco ONE term licence. It is software rather than hardware, so nothing ships: a key or entitlement is applied to equipment you already have. The catalogue describes it as Cisco ONE C3850-24 IP Base to IP Services Smart License.

Before you go any further: this licence is for a platform the vendor no longer supports. Cisco ONE term part numbers reached end of sale on 5 September 2023 and Cisco names no replacement for them. We have left the listing up because people do still search for these part numbers, usually while working out what they have or what to do about it, and a page that tells you the truth is more use than a dead link.

What that means in practice. The licence may still function on equipment already running, because a perpetual licence does not stop working when support ends. What you cannot get is a software fix, a security patch, a hardware replacement under contract, or help from the vendor when something breaks. On anything carrying traffic that matters, or anything exposed to a network you do not control, that is the real risk rather than the licence itself.

What we would rather do than sell you this. Tell us what the equipment is actually doing and we will tell you what the current equivalent is and roughly what replacing it involves. If you are keeping the platform deliberately, which is a legitimate decision in plenty of cases, we can often still source licences and spares from secondary channels, and we would rather you heard the trade-off from us than discovered it later.

What Cisco ONE was. Cisco ONE was an attempt to license software across a whole network by suite rather than per device, with entitlements that could be moved between hardware as it was replaced. Cisco has since retired the programme in favour of the per-platform subscription tiers used today, and it named no direct replacement for the term part numbers, which is unusual and worth knowing: there is no like-for-like successor to ask for. If you hold Cisco ONE entitlements, the question to put to Cisco or to us is what they convert into on the current model rather than how to renew them.

Green Code Technologies supplies Cisco and Huawei equipment and licences alongside HPE, Dell, Samsung and Netgear. We would rather tell you a part is no longer supported, or that we need to check it, than take an order for something that will not do what you need. Send us the platform, the software release and what you are trying to achieve and we will come back with a straight answer.