Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller vs Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers

• It supports the latest Wifi-Gen6 specifications, which include improved bandwidth.
• The setup is easy and support from Cisco is great.
• Exceptional support for more than a thousand access points at great data throughput.
• Chromecast support service is another big plus with this wireless controller.

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• The WLC are very reliable. In the 10+ years the company has had them installed, we have not had any hardware or component failures.
• No need for reboots. The CISCO WLC is not like a router you may have at home which you may have to reboot every few weeks or months. It can run for months without needing a reboot.
• The Cisco WLC gives you a quick Network Summary when you first log into the system. This is very helpful to get a quick rundown on the status of your wireless network.

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• The help information is sometimes not very clear. An item may have a reference number next to it, at the bottom of the page it will have an explanation, but sometimes they are too brief to make sense.
• If they can somehow add debugging on the page instead of requiring us to go through the CLI to collect the debug ut put, that would be great.

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• Configuring wireless settings is very confusing because various settings are scattered all over the interface in different tabs
• Lots of settings use Cisco's technical verbiage rather than common phrasing, so it's confusing what a lot of settings will do and requires researching the meaning before modifying the setting
• The interface could be easier to use to do simple tasks such as reboot an access point

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• Positive impact: Time savings for staff setting up new access points
• Positive impact: Not having to worry about devices just going down for no reason
• Negative impact: If you're budget is small you're going to have a tough sell on these

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• Frustration levels have gone way down after going to the wireless lan controller
• You could argue money has been saved as we can keep a single lineup of AP's and corresponding wireless lan controller
• Costs will have to go up when you start adding one of these into the mix

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