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Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

Overview

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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Rating: 7 out of 10
March 26, 2025
IncentivizedVetted Review
These Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers are deployed in our campus but not only because we are integrating the same for our end customer. They provide a smooth c...
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imad Tarabichi
Engineer - Engineering
Network Engineer
orange business Services
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers8 years of experience

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers review.

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 14, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers replaced Cisco Wireless Airos. With the implementation of SD-WAN and improved reliability of connections from branches to DC, w...
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Sebastian Kozankiewicz
Engineer - Information Technology
Voice and Network Architect
NORMA Group
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers1 year of experience

Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless LAN Controller Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 25, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
So we use it as a central and we do have regional base of deployments and then this is more likely constantly consolidating all this wireless controller. So we have many remot...
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Suhairiikmal Baharudin
Engineer - Information Technology
Principal Network Engineer
Amway IT Services Sdn Bhd
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers3 years of experience

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 12, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use it for one of our new locations. It helped us to establish new 6 GHz radio band which we couldn't with previous product. For now we have 300+ clients using this product...
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Enes Kayahan
Engineer - Information Technology
Network Enegineer
Turkish Technology
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers1 year of experience

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers, a short review

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 12, 2025
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Wireless connectivity across about 30 sites with centralized networking. About 1000 users, with about 3000 devices daily on average. We run a cluster of two Cisco Catalyst 980...
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Jakub Pelka
Engineer - Engineering
Infrastructure Engineer
Brabant Water
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers4 years of experience
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Product Details

What is Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers?

The vendor presents their solution as built from the ground up for intent-based networking and Cisco DNA, and state the Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers are Cisco IOS XE based and integrate the RF excellence of Cisco Aironet access points, creating a best-in-class wireless experience for your evolving and growing organization. The 9800 Series is built on an open and programmable architecture with built-in security, streaming telemetry, and rich analytics.

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Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Ubiquiti WLAN and Fortinet Wireless LAN are common alternatives for Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers.

Reviewers rate Availability highest, with a score of 8.6.

The most common users of Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers review.

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
March 14, 2025
Access Point Management
Configuration based on a policy tag is very effective, each location has its own site-tag to which access points in a given location are assigned. The remaining policies are common and shared. This facilitates configuration, management and subsequent possible changes. It is also very transparent.

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers, a short review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 12, 2025
JP
Jakub Pelka
Infrastructure Engineer
Brabant Water (Utilities, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
4 years of experience
Access Point Management
Automatic application of policy and site tags depending on AP name is a brilliant add-on, it makes management of basic policies seamless.

User policies are managed through ISE, which does work quite well when it does work. ISE is unfortunately a terrible, cumbersome, laggy and heavy to run application but that's outside the scope of this review.

Stay connected with Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

Rating: 7 out of 10
Incentivized
March 26, 2025
iT
imad Tarabichi
Network Engineer
orange business Services (Telecommunications, 5001-10,000 employees)
Vetted Review
Reseller
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
8 years of experience
Access Point Management
using the DNA center helps a lots, it will be here to act as the central tool to configure and push the policy across the connected APs in your network. using what we called group policy and profile, will make the job easier and help to enforce the deployment on the end devices already segmented and categorized whatever the device role is
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