Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers	Score 9.8 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco Catalyst 9800-80 is a modular wireless controller with optional 100 Gigabit Ethernet (G) modular uplinks boasting seamless software updates for large enterprises and campuses, and security with ETA and SD-Access.	N/A

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	Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Considered Both Products	Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Sebastian Kozankiewicz Voice and Network Architect Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Compared to the previous Cisco 5520 and 5505 controller, 5508. The new Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers has been redesigned from scratch, Tag-based configuration is effective and transparent. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Technician Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Not good integration Incentivized Helpful? MS Michael Spence Senior Network Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers The Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers perform very well and allow all infrastructure to be local instead of cloud hosted. This is an important feature, especially when different regions of the world use different clouds, creating disparate configuration locations. Incentivized Helpful? JC Josh Calhoun IT Systems Engineer 2 Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers I think our previous model was a 5508 WLC? I think overall the 9800 is an upgrade in all areas. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers na Incentivized Helpful? GW Gretchen Wendt Senior Network Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers 9800 is a big improvement in easy of overall configuration, upgrading and troubleshooting. Incentivized Helpful? GV Giorgio Vezzaro Pre sales IT systems engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Better than the competitor but higher price Incentivized Helpful? Sergiu Campian Network Operations Team Lead Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers the cisco catalyst 9800 wireless lan controller series is much more structured than the aruba solution and it can easier manage a larger number of devices. it's quite easy to add a new location, a new access point or to change and manage policies across the wireless network of … Incentivized Helpful? JJ Jeneeben Jesujeevagan Network Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Since we are only upgrading to the newest generation, we have all benefits from that (like performance) Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Administrator Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers complete integration Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers because i work with it daily Incentivized Helpful? MA Mohamed Adel Senior Network Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers because our environment devices are cisco products & also stability is very good Incentivized Helpful? AJ Aleksandar Jovanovski Senior Network Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Aruba Incentivized Helpful? TP Tomasz Piekarski Junior Professional Net Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Compared to older Cisco WLC, Catalyst 9800s are easier to manage and SSO HA is more reliable. Compared to Aruba IAP, the number of features is greater. Meraki is easier to set up but having a central controller gives greater control. Incentivized Helpful? HO Hector Ochoa Network Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers In this case, we are a Cisco partner and we have to offer our customers the newest products. The Cisco 5520 controller is already from an old family and that is why we decided to go with the Cisco Catalyst 9800-40 Wireless Controller. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers In old Cisco-fashion, the product is very reliable, and once setup just works. While it might not have all the bells and whistles in the WebUI, like other products may have, you have complete freedom of configuration on the CLI. Overall a great improvement from older generation … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers The only downside of the Cisco Catalyst 9800-80 Wireless Controller is that it is pricey. Otherwise is the best regarding capabilities and ease of configuration. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Professional Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers With Cisco Catalyst 9800-80 Wireless Controller, there is easy configuration, control, and management of access points and wireless networks. However, the cost is relatively high. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Cisco Catalyst 9800-80 Wireless Controller [is] better equipped to handle wireless networks and is also affordable. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Employee Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Fortinet Wireless LAN offers better control of wireless networks and access points. However, it is not the cheapest option. Incentivized Helpful? David Peck IT Senior Manager Network Operations Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Ubiquiti has plenty of great features, and I would even recommend them for small sites. However, I don't think they don't scale as well when you start talking about enterprise scale. You would need to hire a couple of people and keep them on staff just to manage the same size … Helpful? VL Victor Lau Network Architect Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Cisco [Catalyst 9800-L Wireless Controller] is the premium WiFi solution with full options for the control of the WiFi network. The initial cost is high, but the cost comes with the most features of any other enterprise-grade WiFi solution. Cisco is a leader in this space. … Incentivized Helpful? Michael Nugent Quality Manager Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers We original worked with a Linksys based wireless system. Cisco improved our network reliability and speed which were the key reasons we upgraded our hardware in the first place. It appears that Cisco is better suited in a Business environment than its competitors are. I look … Incentivized Helpful? Joyal John Peter Network Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers The new software, features, and improved GUI come up to par with its competition. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers There is no room of comparison with the older AirOS. The 9800 series is built over a complete new architecture, the whole point of this HW is to learn from the AirOS mistakes and never do them again. With new technology comes new challenges, which in my opinion, is licensing. I … Incentivized Helpful?
Top Pros	Pro Wi fi Pro Ease of configuration Pro Easy to configure
Top Cons	Minus Nothing else Minus High price Minus Cost is high

Best Alternatives
	Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Small Businesses	Ubiquiti WLAN Score 9.3 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies	Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point Score 9.6 out of 10
Enterprises	Cisco Meraki Wireless Access Point Score 9.6 out of 10
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User Ratings
	Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Likelihood to Recommend	8.2 (35 ratings)
Availability	8.1 (34 ratings)
Performance	7.8 (35 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco If we are thinking about replacing old Cisco AireOS controllers with a new technology, we can only choose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers. Configuration based on Profiles and SiteTag is convenient and easier compared to the previous configuration. You can see that the entire controller has been designed from scratch. Support for new AccessPoints in Wifi 6 offers great possibilities. Incentivized Sebastian Kozankiewicz Voice and Network Architect Read full review
Pros	Cisco Easily manages a large number of APs. It can push out settings or a new OS to a large group of APs at once. The GUI is very intuitive, and follows the model Cisco has created for many of their products. It integrates well with our ISE environment for handling RADIUS requests. Incentivized CL Charles Lund Director of Network Services Read full review
Cons	Cisco add more sub-genres to the main menu make the product easier for people to use, that aren't working with it all day make the initial setup menu, where policies can be attached to Tags etc. more accessible When selecting APs from the Landing Page, make it possible to rename them immediately without having to switch to "Configuration" -> "Access Points" Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Cisco The availability of the cisco 9800 wireless lan controller depends on several factors including deloyment mode of the controllers itself, network size and architecture and the maitenance and support factor. It is designed to meet the needs of a large enterprise and together with a cisco support contract any outages will be covered Incentivized Sergiu Campian Network Operations Team Lead Read full review
Performance	Cisco Fully robust and well-built solution. The solution fully is able to support a full campus WiFi environment without having any issues. There is no slowness to setting up a WiFi solution or any delays when changes are made. The product [can handle] beyond the listed specifications, but Cisco has kept performance and throughput to allow for a robust and smooth experience. Incentivized VL Victor Lau Network Architect Read full review
Support Rating	Cisco Great contact to Wireless Innovate Program Team and TAC to solve our problems. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Alternatives Considered	Cisco We original worked with a Linksys based wireless system. Cisco improved our network reliability and speed which were the key reasons we upgraded our hardware in the first place. It appears that Cisco is better suited in a Business environment than its competitors are. I look forward to completing the network and to see it fully functional. Incentivized Michael Nugent Quality Manager Read full review
Return on Investment	Cisco We did replace several WLCs in our site with a redundant [Cisco Catalyst 9800-L Wireless Controller] and saved the cost [Cisco Catalyst 9800-L Wireless Controller] with IOS-XE enable us to manage APs in our branches easily, easier than AireOS ISSU enable us to do firmware upgrade with minimum downtime, a site with 24/7 activity will not be interrupted anymore Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
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