#1 most frequent
United States of America
68.5%289 installations of 422
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.
Categories & Use Cases
Who Buys & Uses Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
#2 most frequent
Canada
6.2%26 installations of 422
#3 most frequent
France
3.3%14 installations of 422
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
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
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
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 are a great investment
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use 22 Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers in our organization for ~10K APs. They are set up in HA mode and have been great to use so far. The management GUI is intuitive and full featured. They have a nice tie in to Catalyst Center for an overall view of the entire network.
Pros
- Stable
- Full Featured
- Intuitive
Cons
- Tie in to Catalyst Center has some gaps in knowledge
- It would be nice to have an automatic way to set up site tags
- It is a little slow at times
Return on Investment
- Faster Mean Time to Resolution
- Quicker deployments
- More bugs that you would expect on Cisco Recommended Code
Alternatives Considered
Cisco Catalyst Switches
Other Software Used
Cisco ThousandEyes
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
It controls all our access points for easy and uniform configuration access all sites. Working before the Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers, there was a lot more manual configuration, and there were bugs in the config because, as much as you might try, you are never going to perfectly replicate the config every time it is deployed.
Pros
- Different tags for different sites
- Creation/deployment of WLANs
- Client management information can be a life saver
Cons
- Licensing restrictions on the hardware can be a frustration
- Not always straight forward when implementing with other technologies
- Personally not a fan of the multiple config pages when editing something
Return on Investment
- Huge time savings when deploying new APs
- Huge time savings when creating a new location
- Fantastic for client monitoring
Other Software Used
Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco Umbrella, Cisco Small Business 500 Series Wireless Access Points
