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Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

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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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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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
March 14, 2025
HA SSO availability for the on-prem design. Hot patch does not need a system reload and clients and APs will not be affected. Cold patch requires a reload, but can be installed without bringing the network down with an SSO pair. Rolling AP Upgrade, - Upgrade AP has no effect for the clients.

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 12, 2025
EK
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
1 year of experience
Monitoring is very good Seamless integration with Cisco ISE RRM configuration very easy. It has REST API support IOS-XE is very powerful operation system. Multicasting and mDNS features are really good and very easy to configure. It supports Pyats and Genie so getting constructed data from python script calls very helpful.

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers, a short review

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 12, 2025
JP
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
4 years of experience
While it works well in general, there are some bugs in both the GUI and functionality. It has caused spikes of downtime in our network. The HA also is quite cumbersome and specific to set up, while not having the most reliable working around.
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