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Preface
Purpose
The purpose of this guide is to explain the basic concepts and provide general procedures and commands to
deploy Cisco
®
Catalyst
®
3850 Switches. It does not provide detailed information about these commands.
Audience
This guide is for networking professionals who are responsible for designing, implementing, or administering a
network that includes a standalone Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch or a Cisco Catalyst 3850 Switch stack, referred to
as the switch. Readers of this guide are expected to have prior experience working with the Cisco IOS
®
Software
and familiarity with the concepts and terminology of local area networking, wireless local area networking, and
Layer 2 and Layer 3 switching.
Conventions
This publication uses these conventions to convey instructions and information:
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Command names are in boldface text.
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System displays are in screen font.