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Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller

Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller

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What is Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller?

The Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller is a highly scalable, service-rich, resilient, and flexible platform. It provides centralized control, management, and troubleshooting for high-scale deployments in service provide, enterprise, and large campus deployments.

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Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller across the whole organization as a router for ensuring the best wireless connectivity among all departments and all cloud resources. It has resolved most of our networking and cloud connectivity issues. It has also eliminated our issues related to bandwidth and uptime. It is providing us uninterrupted connectivity to our databases and other cloud resources at faster speeds and [with] ultimate security. Overall, we found it a very economical solution.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the 8540 Cisco Wireless Controller to manage our wireless access points throughout the campus. The controller makes it easy to manage the over 600 access points we have. the controller integrates with our Cisco prime infrastructure and allows us to easily see coverage and bandwidth problems. The scope of our wireless service covers all students faculty and staff including visitors when on campus for various events.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Routers are considered the best Routers. [They] provide a lot in Routing & Throughput Services. I have used Cisco Routers for the configuration of Site to Site VPN for secure connection to our sub-branches, which provides a secure network over the organization. Also, it is used for providing DHCP options for access points and LAN users. Hence, it serves a secure connection and provides [the] best security on a network.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Cisco routers in our projects mostly because they’re known for better resource management over better wireless connectivity. [The] Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller provides control, management, and diagnosing under one roof for service providers and large project deployments. [The] Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller offers the pliability to support various deployment modes in the same controller. Also, this can be a very economical solution as it provides consecutive connectivity to network databases and other resources in the cloud efficiently with more secure packets.
Nilufa Hossain | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Since its beginnings, the Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller has served as our router for wireless connectivity to the company's networks. We use it throughout the organization and have solved spare capacity and cloud connectivity concerns for critical components, such as servers and databases. Cisco [8540] Wireless Controller is the most comprehensive and it’s what I’ve been using. As compared with other manufacturer's products, it offers advanced functionality and integration. It comes with excellent documentation and is easy to understand. Even the oldest controllers can still support the latest APs. It works thanks to the Cisco infrastructure. It can deliver high performance when the Wi-Fi tuning is done correctly.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The [Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller]s are being implemented and are used across our organization. It has solved our problem of weak and slow internet. After using Cisco Router, we are having fun with the fast speed network access [now that] it has become easy for us to perform our tasks. In short, it is a perfect solution to address all the network-related business problems like security.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The IT department of our organization [has been] using [the] Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller since last year for providing wireless connectivity and resolution of networking issues among all departments in our organization. It is highly efficient to eliminate bandwidth-related issues and provides fast connectivity to our databases deployed on cloud infrastructure. It ensures network security and fast network speed. It is, overall, an economical solution against its latest and modern alternatives.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
This product is currently being used by the Accounting department on campus. It's primarily used to address all of the department's connection needs. We can get more information for the required MAC Address of the users/clients on the current session. We can set it up based on our requirements and have our own restrictions and grant access for a particular MAC address or a user.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller has been used by our organization for many years as our main router for wireless connectivity of our employees' systems. It is used by the whole organization and efficiently solved the bandwidth issues and cloud connectivity of major accessories like servers, databases, etc. I had a great experience overall by using it, as I always had a fast connection even at the highest data traffic times.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
These routers are best in terms of security and network speed. This series of routers gives some of the best features, like high performance and high density. [They] provide excellent scalability and are also very good economically. They are designed and programmed in such a way that they won’t allow traffic from unwanted sources, like outsiders and cyber hackers.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller is one of the best things to get a good wireless experience on Windows, iOS, and Android. I have worked mostly on Windows for last four years and never experienced any compromise on speed for all the access points. This can be a more valuable way to monitor any access point and manage it. It has a leading position in the queue due to flexible RF settings. When we use the second-layer redundancy, we are unable to connect to a secondary wireless LAN controller over UI.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller is being used to monitor and access APs within the network and office. It's monitored and maintained by the IT department but we have guest networks that users connect to. So any issues go through IT. It makes management a whole lot easier.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller is high speed controller for networking mostly for large organizations.With flex connect, it is used with access points for many big groups in our organization. Its highly secure wireless and guest access is very secure. Its interface is very easy to adapt and is very secure. It allows for deploying multiple access points, which is a great pro for a WLAN.
João Almeida | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
We use Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller to centrally manage a WiFi network for a Smart City project in Portugal. It is being used by our research lab to measure mobility statistics and other parameters, besides providing free network access to the population in the area where the project was deployed (in a coastal region).
Christopher J Evans | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized

The Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller is one of the best for high-scale network deployments. We use the Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller on our company grounds for various needs as our enterprise network architecture involves both end-users (employees) and IoT devices. While employees need wireless access with their laptops, the logistics department requires wireless access for their handheld inventory devices to keep track of in and out inventory. Consequently, the Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller is used across the whole company.

The initial deployment process is quick and easily adaptable to current architecture with its programmability functions. Flexible on centralized architecture for defining guest access to temporary network members. Finally, Cisco name makes us feel more secure as it is the sector leader in the network infrastructure market.


Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use the Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller at the organization level for wireless connectivity and data control. It is an exceptional tool with a lot of benefits and fits our needs well, as we have a large number of employees and APs to distribute and manage bandwidth among. Our Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller always perfectly achieves KPIs of benchmarked data distribution at high speeds with controllable bandwidth and 99.99% uptime.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We have been using Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller for a few months now for our employee's systems. Overall we think it is a solid product with a very fast connection. We are using this in the whole organization and this effectively solved many problems with our cloud connectivity with no major notable issues in the system.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Cisco 8540 Wireless Controllers are being used in our organization to tie in all our wireless Cisco gear and our many different wireless networks into an easy-to-manage, and easy-to-use centralized management system. It solves the problem of having several separate systems to manage directly.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using our Cisco router across our WAN for authentication and encryption. We are also using it to segment our network to protect our customers' and employees' data. We are also it to monitor real-time threats to constantly gather intelligence to lessen the chance of both internal and external attacks.
December 09, 2020

Ideal for larger settings

NAKIA EPLEY | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are an outsourced IT company so we have multiple clients. We have about 3-4 of our clients that have Cisco 8540 Wireless Controllers and use other Cisco products as well. These clients use them companywide. One client in particular needed to have very solid wireless capabilities and when they upgraded to this model, they saw a much better experience.
December 08, 2020

A good wireless solution!

Duncan Hernandez | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller is key to managing all of our different access points. I like that we have full control of the access points as well. I have not noticed any outages yet and our users have not reported any issues. For remote workers, a dependable wireless controller like this is key.
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