Cisco Aironet 1540 Series Access Points vs Cisco Aironet 1570 Series Access Points

Likelihood to Recommend

If you want an enterprise wireless network Cisco might not be the de-facto standard (as they are in wired networking equipment) but they are a strong contender. If you are a small company Cisco might not be the first to go to, but definitely give it a good look. Prepare by doing some measurements in your building.

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Due to its software, it can fit in any outdoor deployment or requirement. It has POE Out port, Various Antenna selection, various powering option, GPS, Industrial rigid design (coming from a very hot and humid area), SFP compatible.
You can deploy this AP nearly on any use case you face, I have a successful deployment of 400m distance between two of them as a MESH and it has been running fine for the past 2 years on the beach, it's also providing wired connection to clients on the MESH side.
Some other use case is a WGB connected to a AirQuality sensor that has been up since day 1, with no problems whatsoever.

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Pros

Stability
Signal strength
Power Consumption

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Signal quality, even when all users are connected.
Secured
Integration
Realiability
Endurance
Support

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Citelis - Organización RamírezCommercial Real Estate, 501-1000 employees

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Cons

At one point we did have stability issues on some devices but that was solved by rebooting. Strangely most devices than work for months.
Price is a bit high.

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Price point
Not that easy to set up as a Meraki.
Difficult to find a good partner.

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Citelis - Organización RamírezCommercial Real Estate, 501-1000 employees

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Likelihood to Renew

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Cisco Aironet 1570 Series Access Points 9.1

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There is no other better option than this. It's the line between the commercial Cisco grade AP's and industrial ones.

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Usability

Cisco Aironet 1540 Series Access Points 8.2

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Everything clear and easy to use

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Cisco Aironet 1570 Series Access Points 9.1

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Whenever I get a new use case, I find 1570 solves it with no problem.

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Support Rating

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Cisco Aironet 1570 Series Access Points 9.1

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Initially I had a problem with the regulatory and channel selection, it was a bug on the AP as it was fairly new, solved by TAC on engineering release, and since then it has been performing flawlessly.

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Alternatives Considered

As that part of the company is a Cisco Oriented company, it was the best way to go. We did look at other products but were happy to add them to our contact with Cisco equipment and services.

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Making the decision to use Aironet is more related to the type of scenario that you have. We chose Aironet because we mainly manage all the network internally and already have Cisco products to integrate with Meraki which is a good option if you are starting from scratch.

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Return on Investment

For sure stable access allows your organization to be on top of efficiency
User mobility around the office

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ROI pays off on the long term especially if you care about security and offering a good service to your users.
ROI also pays on terms of warranty and time of response especially if your users depend heavily on the network.
ROI also depends on the amount and type of users that you have. It's less likely to pay if you have few users.

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Pricing Details

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Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No

General

Free Trial

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Free/Freemium Version

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Premium Consulting/Integration Services

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Entry-level set up fee?

No