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What is Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers?
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Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers is a solid wireless controller
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What is Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers?
Cisco promises to deliver key wireless innovations through custom-built access points that go beyond the Wi-Fi 6(802.11ax) wireless standard to provide radio-frequency excellence for high-density environments.
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Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers Competitors
- Fortinet Wireless LAN
- Aruba Networks Wireless LAN (WLAN)
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- Onboards new clients
- Performs upgrades with ease
- Allows ongoing diagnostics of WIFI
- Adoption of new APs with software
- User interface
- Moving away from old Aironet
Cisco WLC Reliable Wireless
- Management
- Long refresh cycle
- Reliable
- Software QA is Lacking
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers Review
- Ease of management.
- Reliability.
- Robustness.
- Sometimes the CLI based technology has failed which lowers customer respect.
- Wed page customization.
- More analytics are always better.
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- Management - One centralized point of management makes troubleshooting and configuration very easy.
- Integrates well with Cisco ISE.
- Provides good information about rogue AP's and top talkers.
- Bug fixes.
- AP licensing.
- Include wireless heat maps as a feature.
Cisco Wireless Controllers
- Cisco has multiple wireless controller products that can address different business needs.
- Cisco Wireless Controllers are generally easy to use.
- Extremely easy to manage.
- Integration with legacy APs is a problem.
Cisco WLC
- Regional implementation.
- AP management is one feature of LWAPP that is a huge departure from previous ways of doing things.
- WLC has a higher processing capability than an individual AP, which allows you to offer an even higher level of coordination among multiple WLCs.
- LWAPP offers a separation between the existent LAN traffic and the "new" wireless traffic, it simplifies network planning and traffic handling.
- Usage of HA SKU WLC and the way it is considered. More benefits should be given to customers.
- Configuration options can be a bit confusing.
- Web UI, performance management, and traffic management are not easy.
Flexible wireless control
- Supports all of the latest wireless technology and protocols
- Huge flexibility
- Works with several different access point models simultaneously
- Cisco isn't inexpensive
- Software upgrades give access to new features but you have to buy access points to match
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- The wireless controller does well at providing central management of up to 6,000 APs
- Unfortunately, the Aironet controller code over the last few years has become very tired and buggy
- Would love to see more APIs built into the Aironet controllers. The newer generation Catalyst controllers have them
Cisco Wireless LAN Controller - quick and easy wireless
Cisco WLC provides central management and monitoring of a large number of APs across multiple customer sites, as well as touchless deployment of APs with WLC discovery. Self-healing wireless continually monitors the RF environment and updates channel or power assignment based on interference, holes, etc.
- Quick and easy AP deployment across multiple remote sites using DNS WLC discovery. Ship the AP to the site and plug in. Then it's centrally configured from WLC
- Easy to use web UI - You can create and get a wireless LAN running very quickly
- Basic guest functionality included - you don't need to buy separate infrastructure and servers to provide wireless guest web authentication
- SSO HA - seamless failover for APs and clients
- Too many configuration options - I'd like to hide options that are not generally required to be modified. Make best practice configuration the default
- Web UI is looking a bit dated and needs an update
- Ability to export client or AP lists or details from the web UI
Cisco Wireless Controller is a Must
The decision to transition down such a path, to begin with, was simple - we needed consolidated management of the entire wireless infrastructure from a single point. I have not regretted making this decision since we first deployed the solution.
- Central Management - The central management console is actually very easy to use and facilitate.
- Dashboard - Reporting has improved since they introduced the dashboard two years ago I believe, definitely a good move by Cisco.
- Best Practice Auto-Config - This is probably the coolest thing ever. They have some best practice "one-click" configuration templates built into the new code which are easy and simple to use.
- More analytics are always better.
- Build integration and migration for Cisco DNA.
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- Centralized management is essential when you have 200 + access points. This is essential when changing policies or QoS.
- Secure connectivity with 802.1x or Cisco Identity management.
- Radius authentication pass-through for user authentication
- Does an excellent job in managing wireless signals when you have a dense deployment of access points.
- Cost of licenses and appliance.
- Complexity around add-on integrations.
Cisco Wireless Controllers are not suitable for small business applications in my opinion. TCO may not add up for smaller business.
Wifi Management made easier
- Ease of management
- WEB interface
- Remote management
- Web Interface features
- WEB page customization
The WLC works
- Central Management
- Fastlane capabilities for Apple devices
- Simplified landing page configuration
- Has had several vulnerabilities
- The need for Cisco Prime for heatmapping and advanced features
- Pretty expensive
Worth it, can be better
- Robustness
- Reliability
- Support
- Controller GUI can be more visually attractive
- Some tries on CLI based technology has failed which lowers customer respect
Wirellesation
- Nice signaling
- Futures
- Design
- Easier configuration from Controller
- Not three licenses at ISE
- Better monitoring with Prime
Cisco Access Points are well suited with CMX scenarios because you can have more information about your customers to make a more strategic and more targeted campaigns in order to increase your company's recognition and profit.
I suggest to re-design the Meraki Access points in order to minimize the cost of those and make this platform more eligible.
- The 2500-series controller is fairly easy to set up and configure, which helps get up and running quickly, value-add!
- Upgrading the firmware and pushing updates out to the lightweight WAPs is easy, which helps speed system administration.
- GUI is useful, compact, and self-explanatory, at least with standard settings - though if you move to more advanced features, it can get a little tricky.
- The CLI is lacking. Does not work like standard IOS or NX-OS devices. Confusing combination of standard CLI commands vs. menu-like display.
- When a lightweight WAP goes offline, it "disappears" from the GUI, which makes it difficult to determine down vs. doesn't exist. A "red x" would be great.
- Lightweight WAPs are limited in that SNMP is not supported. Monitoring systems would have to inspect the WAPs via the controller.