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Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

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What is Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers?

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.

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Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Reviews

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Pros

  • Centralized management through a unified and user-friendly interface
  • Enhanced troubleshooting and logging features for efficient remote diagnosis
  • Flexibility and scalability to support diverse deployment sizes and access point counts

Cons

  • Initial learning curve associated with the new tagging system for policy management
  • Policy rollout can be perceived as complex or convoluted by some users

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Review

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Jamie JonesView profile
Wireless Consultant in Information Technology at Block Solutions (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

How we use it is to basically provide comprehensive wireless solutions for healthcare organizations. Latest tech, latest features. And bridges into the wider catalyst solution. So basically full stack visibility and management.

Pros

  • Comprehensive feature set. Basically very versatile in terms of providing solutions to a lot of kind of NHS issues. Every NHS trustee's bespoke, so there's usually a way we can shoehorn some of the features within the platform to service energy.

Cons

  • If you speak to my management team, ISSU service upgrades being more stable and a slight reduction in the bugs.

Return on Investment

  • With movement into IOT and integration with Spaces, it's providing a lot more use cases we can leverage for customer needs.

Cisco 9800 Series Wireless Controller

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Verified User
Employee in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it to manage all of our SSIDs and our access points. It gives our users wireless access.

Pros

  • It’s really great to have a user-friendly interface and manage. It gives you a really good overview of all of your access points, and the quick setup wizard is fantastic for just going through and making quick changes.

Cons

  • I can't think of any at the moment.

Return on Investment

  • Positive ROI. I had a self-generated issue three weeks ago, and it resolved itself the moment I fixed the problem that I caused.

Perfect product

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Verified User
Team Lead in Engineering (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have a lot of customers using the Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers. This is from very critical environments that need top performing Wi-Fi and many others. Cisco offers an extremely wide catalogue of controllers and is very flexible in configuration, matching every environment. With URWB and wi-fi nowadays, it’s ideal to be able to configure, manage and monitor both from the same platform.

Pros

  • Config flexibility
  • Overall view and dashboards
  • Compatibility

Cons

  • Making it more easy for new users
  • More dashboards
  • Can’t even think of something else

Return on Investment

  • Reliability
  • Improvement in production
  • Ease of use for end users

Alternatives Considered

Cisco Catalyst Center

Other Software Used

Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Meraki Dashboard, Cisco ThousandEyes

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Feedback

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers at one of our site. It supports WiFi 6 and all catalyst Access points. It supports ISSU It comes with more security features and has lot more capabilities than traditional Aironet WLC.

Pros

  • WiFi6
  • ISSU
  • Troubleshooting

Cons

  • Managing via Catalyst Centre

Return on Investment

  • Great Wifi experience as end user.
  • Minimum downtime with ISSU Upgrade

Alternatives Considered

Cisco 3504 WLAN Controller

Other Software Used

Cisco Catalyst Center, Cisco Secure Network Analytics, Cisco Prime LAN Management (discontinued)

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Platform

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Dominic Romandi
Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at HCA (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use a dedicated pair at each hospital, with some remote anchoring to other sites within a "market" or outside if need be for guest traffic on dedicated internet circuits. The centralization and unified management interface has been fantastic, and the automated setup integration with DNAC is an added bonus.

Pros

  • unified management and operation interface(s)
  • automated setup integration with DNAC
  • built in troubleshooting tools to assist all levels of engineers

Cons

  • 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.

Return on Investment

  • It has made management much easier
  • introducing new devices into our ecosystem is far simplified and saves many hours in the initial setup and troubleshooting any quirks
  • The anchor floating has enabled additional circuit savings.

Alternatives Considered

Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller and Cisco 8540 Wireless Controller

Other Software Used

OneDrive, ServiceNow IT Operations Management, Atlassian Confluence

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