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Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers

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What is Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers?

Cisco offers wireless LAN.

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Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers for Your APs

Rating: 9 out of 10
October 26, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use the Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers in our environment to manage and keep updated our Wireless Access Points. The Access points in our environment originally were not ke...
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Brittany Burch
Technician - Information Technology
Senior Technical Specialist
Professional Information Systems
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers5 years of experience

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 27, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use this product to manage the connectivity over wireless. Like we have thousands of devices connected daily to our wireless environment. So we see who's connected, we have...
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Verified user
Engineer
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers6 years of experience

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers Review

Rating: 2 out of 10
August 26, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
So wireless line controllers are used to basically manage our wireless access points throughout the enterprise. Specifically, I manage the controllers for several hospitals, m...
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Verified user
Engineer
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers10 years of experience

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers - WLC 9800

Rating: 10 out of 10
March 10, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Cisco Wireless LAN Controller 9800 as a centralized solution to manage all access points, we have indoor and out door models.As a local government, some access points a...
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Paulo Thame
Engineer - Information Technology
Information Security Engineer
Prefeitura de Santana de Parnaíba
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers3 years of experience

AirOS WLC Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
February 11, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Cisco WLC as the main entry point to our network for our users, which are students and teachers, with employees as well. The main business subject (more than problem) ...
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Verified user
Engineer
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers6 years of experience

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers Review

Rating: 7 out of 10
February 11, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
The controller is used to connect wlan-devices to the LAN. Connections are tunneled from APs to the controller. For certain SSIDs the tunnel gets extended to DMZ. Furthermore ...
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Administrator
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers4 years of experience

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers - More Bang for the Buck! A Worthy Solution!

Rating: 10 out of 10
February 9, 2023
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
In our environment, we have over 6000 students and 1900 staff users that require access to the internet and network resources. We brought on the Cisco wireless solution origin...
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Verified user
Manager
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers18 years of experience

Cisco Wireless - Seamless Integration for your Enterprise Needs

Rating: 10 out of 10
September 14, 2022
IncentivizedVetted Review
Cisco wireless controllers are used for enterprise wireless deployments in various sectors. They provide all major features to be fulfilled and implemented as per each site's ...
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Joyal John Peter
Partner - Information Technology
Senior Network Engineer
IQ (Informatica Qatar)
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers8 years of experience

Cisco's budget friendly WiFi controller series: 2500.

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 13, 2022
Vetted ReviewVerified User
The Cisco 2500 WiFi series is used to spawn guest WiFi in office buildings. It was chosen to implement a completely physically separated network from the core company/employee...
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Verified user
Engineer
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers3 years of experience

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers is a name of trust and costly both

Rating: 9 out of 10
June 11, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Cisco Wireless controllers for production users and engineers in the first phase. Benefits that can be considered: No doubt it provides ease on the administrative and i...
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Administrator
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers2 years of experience

Cisco Wireless Controllers. Why would you you explore other vendors and products?

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 24, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use 5520s and 5508s. 5520s for our 4800 APs with location services enabled on them. We use the 5508s for our older APs. Both controllers give us a single pane of glass appr...
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Verified user
Manager
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers15 years of experience

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers review

Rating: 7 out of 10
May 15, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers for the mobility and proper handshake between the APs, which it does great, and other controlling options like Radius integration, Captiv...
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Ahmed Mujeeb
Manager - Information Technology
Assistant Manager IT Infrastructure
Artistic Milliners
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers8 years of experience

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers is a solid wireless controller

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 12, 2022
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We use Cisco WLC 5520's for all of our critical Wi-Fi needs in our administration areas as well as our industrial areas. Those areas include warehousing and industrial manufac...
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Verified user
Manager
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers10 years of experience

Cisco WLC for Enterprise Environment

Rating: 10 out of 10
April 18, 2022
IncentivizedVetted Review
We have customer organizations that are very big and it is difficult to manage each Access Point with the various types of authentication methods, to overcome this problem we ...
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Mohd Shahid Ali
Consultant - Information Technology
Pre-Sales Network Consultant
Al Khalili Group
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers10 years of experience

If you want performance and reliability, you are in the right spot.

Rating: 10 out of 10
November 13, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Cisco [Wireless LAN Controllers] have been used for many years as the primary solution for dispatching goods via handheld scanners. Reliability and consistency is the main rea...
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Verified user
Engineer
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers7 years of experience
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Brittany Burch
Senior Technical Specialist
Professional Information Systems (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
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Product Details

What is Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers?

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers : Cisco offers companies a comprehensive wireless portfolio to address the needs of networks, from small deployments all the way up to large enterprises. Optimized for 802.11ac Wave 2 and Wi-Fi 6performance, Cisco wireless LAN controllers are highly scalable, service-rich, and resilient platforms that provide centralized control, flexible management, and troubleshooting for large and small-scale deployments. Cisco aims to equip companies with the tools they need to help grow their network as their business grows with their wireless LAN controller portfolio.

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.

Cisco now offers a two-question, two-minute interactive tool to identify the Cisco products and services that help solve up to five network challenges.

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Cisco offers wireless LAN.

Fortinet Wireless LAN are common alternatives for Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers.

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The most common users of Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers for Your APs

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 26, 2023
BB
Brittany Burch
Senior Technical Specialist
Professional Information Systems (Information Technology & Services, 1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
5 years of experience
Pros and Cons
  • Monitor Rogues Access Points
  • Allows traffic restrictions
  • Only has to make changes to one controller and deploy to the Access Points

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 27, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
6 years of experience
Pros and Cons
  • See how many clients are connected. I don't want to go the technical, but it does a lot of things we need to see and address. Make our job easier to see who's connected, how many users, and the locations. Make it so easy for us.

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers Review

Rating: 2 out of 10
Incentivized
August 26, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
10 years of experience
Pros and Cons
  • It does keep track of our wireless access points particularly well I guess, and then just, you know, providing the current status of access points as well.

AirOS WLC Review

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 11, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
6 years of experience
Pros and Cons
  • Fast Roaming
  • High density management
  • Centralizated Access Points Management
  • Security

Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers - More Bang for the Buck! A Worthy Solution!

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 09, 2023
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
18 years of experience
Pros and Cons
  • The cisco wireless controller allows for very granular access to internal and external systems.
  • The system allows for allowing special needs uses (medical, security, guest) very easy.
  • The system allows for various levels of bandwidth to a variety of users.
  • The security, flexibility and ease of use is phenomenal.

Cisco's budget friendly WiFi controller series: 2500.

Rating: 7 out of 10
September 13, 2022
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
3 years of experience
Pros and Cons
  • Automatically prioritizes time critical applications (e.g. VoIP, Video Chats).
  • PoE so no additional wires need to be pulled.
  • Provides information about RF interference, easy to diagnose connection issues.

The Best in Class Wireless

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
October 05, 2021
UA
Umair Ali Khan
Network Administrator
Pak Suzuki Motor Company (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
2 years of experience
Pros and Cons
  • Centralized management
  • Cisco Clean Air
  • Native HA
  • MAC filtering
  • Support for high density environments
  • 11ac support
  • Automatic radio resource management

[Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers]: A Set It [and] Forget It

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
July 18, 2021
DB
Derek Benson
Infrastructure, Network Administrator II
Dynamic Aviation (Aviation & Aerospace, 501-1000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
2 years of experience
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Pros and Cons
  • It's Cisco and like all our other Cisco products, chiefly switches, once you get it set up to your liking, it just runs itself after that. The reliability factor has been huge for us.
  • Ease in deploying new APs has been nice. We have a DNS record (and DHCP Option 43 as a fallback) that helps new AP find the WLC. The WLC takes it from there.
  • Good monitoring of connections, kicking people off, [and] blocking certain MACs are all useful features.

Cisco Wireless 8510 Controllers

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
June 08, 2021
Verified User
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
2 years of experience
Pros and Cons
  • The Clean Air feature are very useful
  • Being a very large controller, it allows the connection of many access points and does not consume much
  • Documentation from design to setup is excellent from Cisco

King of WLAN

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
February 11, 2021
IA
Irfan Ahmed
Deputy Manager
Pak Suzuki Motors (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
5 years of experience
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Pros and Cons
  • Hanging issues are resolved after Cisco Wireless deployment, over loading of users on a single AP is managed well.
  • Users are connected very smoothly, now no issues reported from users.
  • Logs and rectification are very easy and troubleshooting is very good.
  • One windows solution for all wireless issues company & country-wide users.
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