Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller vs FortiAP

• 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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• Built sturdy for harsh environments.
• They perform and/or surpass performance levels shown on their data sheets.

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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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• Deploying your first AP is a little confusing - you need to register it with Fortinet, and then deploy it. I am a master now, but this took me call to support to understand how to roll these out.
• Adding them in to the correct folders on Forticloud took a little bit of figuring out, but again, once I had it it was simple.

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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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• Increased overall coverage of wireless for my users - no more calls about dropped wireless (our cell service is very spotty).
• Easy to roll out - no issues here.
• Expensive - you are paying for a business, not a home use devices - sticker shock might happen initially.

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