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    Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AThe 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

    Okta

    Score9 out of 10
    N/AOkta is an enterprise grade identity management service, built in the cloud. IT can manage access across any application, person or device. Whether the people are employees, partners or customers or whether the applications are in the cloud, on premises or on a mobile device, Okta helps IT become more secure and maintain compliance. The Okta service provides directory services, single sign-on, authentication, provisioning, workflow, and built in reporting. ment systems.

    $6

    per month per user

    Pricing
    Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless ControllersOkta
    Editions & Modules
    No answers on this topic
    Starter
    $6.00
    per month per user
    Essentials
    $17.00
    per month per user
    Professional
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    Per User Per Month
    Enterprise
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    Per User Per Month
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless ControllersOkta
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    NoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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    Community Pulse
    Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless ControllersOkta
    Considered Both Products
    Cisco
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    Okta
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    99%
    Would buy again
    103 Answers
    98%
    Would buy again
    129 Answers
    Delivers good value for the price
    96%
    Delivers good value for the price
    92 Answers
    99%
    Delivers good value for the price
    103 Answers
    Happy with the feature set
    97%
    Happy with the feature set
    101 Answers
    98%
    Happy with the feature set
    129 Answers
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    94%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    76 Answers
    100%
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    74 Answers
    Implementation went as expected
    86%
    Implementation went as expected
    83 Answers
    99%
    Implementation went as expected
    85 Answers
    Features
    Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless ControllersOkta
    Identity Management
    Comparison of Identity Management features of Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers and Okta
    Feature
    Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
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    Ratings
    Okta
    8.8
    159 Ratings
    7% above category average
    ID-Management Access Control00 Ratings9.3146 Ratings
    ID Management Single-Sign On (SSO)00 Ratings9.3158 Ratings
    Multi-Factor Authentication00 Ratings9.2154 Ratings
    Password Management00 Ratings7.9147 Ratings
    Account Provisioning and De-provisioning00 Ratings8.7133 Ratings
    ID Management Workflow Automation00 Ratings8.5123 Ratings
    ID Risk Management00 Ratings8.6116 Ratings
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    User Ratings
    Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless ControllersOkta
    Likelihood to Recommend
    9.0
    (109 ratings)
    8.9
    (200 ratings)
    Likelihood to Renew
    8.7
    (6 ratings)
    8.0
    (18 ratings)
    Usability
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    Availability
    8.9
    (107 ratings)
    10.0
    (4 ratings)
    Performance
    8.7
    (108 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Support Rating
    8.5
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
    (12 ratings)
    Online Training
    -
    (0 ratings)
    1.0
    (1 ratings)
    Implementation Rating
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Configurability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Ease of integration
    9.0
    (1 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    Product Scalability
    10.0
    (1 ratings)
    9.0
    (2 ratings)
    Vendor post-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    Vendor pre-sale
    8.0
    (1 ratings)
    6.4
    (1 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless ControllersOkta
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cisco
    Well suited for most of our customer base because it is a versatile, scalable, large multi-campus organizations. Not so: Brandish deployments where there's a much more simplified feature set needed. So where we can basically rely on Meraki as a cloud base with easier to deploy.
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    Okta
    Should be well-suited for a SaaS business organisation as they have a lot of internal applications and need a role-based authentication system between the various teams, improving security and audit log system to account for any breaches. It integrates well with internal applications such as Salesforce and Oracle. Best when need of SSO.
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    Pros
    Cisco
    • I think the updates are great. ISSU upgrading code is fantastic. I think the speed with which CAPWAP converges or reconverges, I think the redundancy mechanisms for roaming APs to other controllers is very good. I think overall, getting away from more of a monolithic processor where subprocesses handle what they call the WNCD tasks, I think fundamentally is an improvement in performance.
    • The radioactive tracing, all of the troubleshooting and all of the logging and all of the importing and exporting features for logging and analytics within the controller itself is really, really good compared to the predecessor AireOS.
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    Okta
    • Centralized control of enterprise passwords
    • Extensive customization of acceptable password criteria
    • One system for Identity and Access Management to learn
    • Scalable throughout the university for all central services
    • Uniform login experience for students, faculty, and staff
    • Single point of response to address termination of access
    • Ability to use FastPass for lower priority systems
    • Excellent support of multi-factor requirements
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    Cons
    Cisco
    • The biggest issues we have had have been software related. Requiring code upgrades or reloads to fix an unfixable problem.
    • Some of the troubleshooting utilities aren't perfectly clear as to what theyre doing or how to set them up or what to expect results wise or resource wise.
    • I think there is a lack of filtering in certain displays where you cannot use the "contains" option for certain device type filtering. But those options should be universal in all views.
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    Okta
    • I do have to reset my password quite frequently. However, I don't think there is really a way to improve this, as it's a good security measure.
    • It makes me re-sign in a couple of times a day, sometimes if I haven't used my laptop for a couple of hours, and sometimes just randomly throughout the day.
    • It doesn't remember my devices, either my laptop or phone. so it always calls that out.
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    Likelihood to Renew
    Cisco
    Despite common software and hardware issues this is still the best product on the market for large scale enterprise deployments. Cisco has worked with us extensively to reduce the amount of bugs in every iteration however new bugs are introduced or new incompatibilities always arise with major releases. Thus, while I'm hesitant to recommend the product it's still much better than all the other competitors such as Aruba and Juniper in the WIFi space. There is also extensive integration with DNAC/Catalyst Center and ISE in an SDA deployment. Recently there has been a number of critical issues with the controller software and Cisco has proved themselves to be incapable of timely troubleshooting and diagnosis. This has reduced our confidence in the product and it's current and future stability and maintainability. At it's current state the product is taking up too much of our engineering resources to maintain despite also paying for premium support from Cisco. As such I have reduced by rating as we are likely to look at alternative vendors for our long-term wireless management solution
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    Okta
    Okta has a passion to provide secure and scalable identity solution. Their passion has come across as advocacy in a way that has deepened my knowledge of the field of authentication. I took identity for granted before but after seeing features such as external authentication I know that Okta can enable my business to reach new heights
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    Usability
    Cisco
    It's not simple, but this is the result of being very deeply configurable
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    Okta
    Some of its features are great and some are slightly complex and not easy without vendor support.
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    Reliability and Availability
    Cisco
    Honestly, in the six years that we've been using it, we've had one, I would say show stopping event. There was an issue with in an HA setup they would every so often when rebooted lose all configuration. So that was a bit disappointing, required quite a few hours to resolve, but Cisco had to fix very quickly and once we implemented that, we've not had any further additional issues.
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    Okta
    The Okta Identity Cloud advertises 4 9's of reliability and I would go as far to say that it may even do better than that. As a true Global organization that operates in just about every region of the world, we have yet to have an issue with The Okta Identity Cloud that has impacted our business operations.
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    Performance
    Cisco
    We have been using the Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers for over 2 years and the whole system has been very stable. We currently run them in HA and have found when this has been activated (due to power issues etc.) the units change roles seamlessly, minimising the downtime to almost nothing. Except when we have had major issues, our wireless networks have a solid uptime and keeps our whole borough up 24/7 without problems.
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    Okta
    From my perspective, for the things that my group uses it for, Okta is very fast. It is as least as fast as the local password database methods that it replaces on our campus enterprise services. I do not believe that it slows anything down at all. In fact, not having to think too much about the login, because they all look the same, probably speeds things up somewhat.
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    Support Rating
    Cisco
    the overall support on the 9800 Wireless lan controller is good. Wireless issues are sometimes hard to troubleshoot since it's the RF that make it complex and the diversity in clients and requirements. The engineers do a good job in understanding the scope and issue, altough not all issues can be solved
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    Okta
    We've had a few support cases over the years and every case has been handled by the Okta support team beautifully. We received clear answers to questions we had regarding setup and even were provided simple to follow guides on how to setup their product to use with custom applications.
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    Implementation Rating
    Cisco
    You need to understand wifi basics
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    Okta
    No answers on this topic
    Alternatives Considered
    Cisco
    Ubiquiti WLAN is very much a consumer platform. It is not production ready, it is buggy, it has issues. It is cheaper than Cisco, but you get what you pay for. Aruba doesn't integrate nicely with our existing largely Cisco based networks, so when time came to replace AireOS, the Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers came out on top.
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    Okta
    Okta is far superior in terms of integrations, user interface, automation, and connectivity. Additionally, Okta offers better support and availability, and a more robust solution across every capacity Entra competes in. Okta simply works, whereas Microsoft Entra has a large overhead that is difficult to use when configuring things.
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    Scalability
    Cisco
    There are different vesrions for different requirements, there's HA as well.
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    Okta
    Being a cloud native application, The Okta Identity Cloud is extremely scalable and easy to setup. By integrating into existing directories and applications via standard techniques and protocols, it is very easy to both initially setup and add additional users as required. Once all the necessary integrations are setup, it's a simple rinse and repeat process to onboard additional users (which can be automated with imports as well)
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    Return on Investment
    Cisco
    • Positive impacts, yeah, is good to have a central location to control all these profiles for different countries and locations. And the drawback, like I said to you really because of the too many integrations that have a dependency on the software version. For example, Cisco ONE for Access have certain software that can run through and then this scatter center need to make sure it's working with the others APS version that is currently working. And we also, the Cisco Catalyst Center also have some kind another version of software that you need to support this controller. So it's like two tier three tiers of the software version that we need to match. Then only it can work.
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    Okta
    • Increased user productivity - not fighting with IT all the time!
    • Though there could be a bit more on the 'lost/broken phone' front, the self-service eliminates time that would typically be spent waiting for IT support/admins.
    • An Okta account under a certain domain allows proper access from the get-go, and under certain apps (such as our HRIS), adding members is easy.
    • Improved security - deactivating Okta removes all account access across multiple platforms instantly for leavers.
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