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 9.6 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 AH Austin Hixenbaugh Network Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Not much yet. In my experience from becoming a network engineer four-ish years ago to now, like I said, I used that 5520, which was a Cisco product. These 9800 are a lot smaller and tinier and they seem to do a lot more that the other ones couldn't do. It's a good product. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Engineer Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers I ve used a Cisco 8500 series WLC. That is what we were using prior to the 9800. I think that the 9800 is a much better product than the 8500. In my experience, the 8500 was a little more stable on firmware releases and things of that nature. However, I started using that … Incentivized Helpful? RM Randy Mclaurin Network Anayst Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Working with Aruba and clearpass was an easier transition but the cost was the roadblock for us. Incentivized Helpful? 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?
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 9.1 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	8.0 (48 ratings)
Availability	7.9 (47 ratings)
Performance	7.6 (48 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (1 ratings)

User Testimonials
	Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Likelihood to Recommend	Cisco For this specific product. It's pretty well suited for management of access points for not a huge campus, I would say for this specific one that I have. But I mean it can manage up to 5,000 access points. So it's a great product. Less appropriate would probably be really massive for the product that I own. The one, that version of it for what I have, I wouldn't say use it for something that's like this mega corporation, huge ginormous corporation because you need the higher end model of what I have. But in general it fits my needs, it fits what we need. It's the capabilities, but there's faster and better ones that I could have got if I needed it. Incentivized AH Austin Hixenbaugh Network Engineer 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 Room for improvement. We tend to update our firmware as soon as possible. We have hit a lot of various bugs and things that were caught in testing, but we're still pushed out live. The sorting and searching of access points in the software could use some work essentially, especially cap sensitive things and things like that can be a little irritating to use. Incentivized Verified User Anonymous Read full review
Reliability and Availability	Cisco We have more than 500 APs located in 50 locations. Since the implementation of the new controller, we have not observed any major problems with the operation of the WiFi network. Employees observe an improvement in the availability and operation of the network; in new locations and when modernizing existing ones, we focus primarily on a WiFi network for employees rather than a cable connection. Incentivized Sebastian Kozankiewicz Voice and Network Architect Read full review
Performance	Cisco The performance of the cisco 9800 wireless lan controller is quite good. One of the best features is that the network can keep running even if the cisco 9800 wireless lan controller is turned off. One of the downsides is that updates are a little bit complicated where in some instances you have to rebuild the VM where it's hosted Incentivized Sergiu Campian Network Operations Team Lead 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 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 WLAN controllers, and all in all a well suited successor Incentivized Verified User Anonymous 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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