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Catalyst 3650 Switch Hardware Installation Guide
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Chapter 1      Product Overview
Front Panel
Table 1-4 Meaning of Switch LED Colors in Different Modes
Port Mode Port LED Color Meaning
STAT
(port status)
Off No link, or port was administratively shut down.
Green Link present, no activity.
Blinking green Activity. Port is sending or receiving data.
Alternating 
green-amber
Link fault. Error frames can affect connectivity, and errors such as 
excessive collisions, CRC errors, and alignment and jabber errors 
are monitored for a link-fault indication.
Amber Port is blocked by Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) and is not 
forwarding data.
After a port is reconfigured, the port LED can be amber for up to 30 
seconds as STP checks the switch for possible loops.
SPEED
10/100/1000/2.5G/5G/10G ports
Off Port is operating at 10 Mb/s.
Green Port is operating at 100 Mb/s.
Single green 
flash (on for 
100 ms, off for 
1900 ms)
Port is operating at 1000 Mb/s.
Double green 
flash
Port is operating at 2.5G, 5G, or 10G link speeds. Use CLI to 
determine link speeds.
SFP+/QSFP+ ports
Off Port is not operating.
Blinking green Port is operating at up to 10 Gb/s.
DUPLX
(duplex)
Off Port is operating in half duplex.
Green Port is operating in full duplex.
ACTV
(data active 
switch)
Off The switch is not the active switch.
Note For a standalone switch, this LED is off.
Green The switch is the active switch.
Amber Error during active switch election.
Blinking green Switch is a standby member of a data stack and assumes active 
responsibilities if the current active switch fails.
STACK
(stack member)
Off No stack member corresponding to that member number.
Blinking green Stack member number.
Green Member numbers of other stack member switches.