Want seamless control of the campus’s wired/wireless network? Check out EdTech’s review of the Cisco Catalyst 3850 Series Switch. John Breeden II is an award-winning reviewer with more than 20 years ...

Managing the ensuing chaos can be a nightmare, but that’s precisely the environment that the reasonably priced and infinitely expandable Cisco Catalyst 3850-48F-S switch is designed to conquer.

They seem pretty similar spec'd so not sure which way to go. The Cisco 3850 is an access switch while the 4500X is an aggregation but both are layer 3 switches.The 4500 actually has bigger buffer ...