Cisco AP’s in a Cisco Shop Make Sense!
June 13, 2019

Cisco AP’s in a Cisco Shop Make Sense!

Preston Collins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Aironet and Catalyst Access Points

We use Cisco Wireless Access Points to augment our wired infrastructure. We do not have a sole wireless environment but we do rely heavily on wireless for mobile device roaming and conference room support. Our wireless implementation also supports all of our IOT devices such as smart boards and meeting room displays.
  • Roaming.
  • Mesh environments.
  • Orphan app support.
  • Spectrum management.
  • Spread spectrum support.
  • Rogue app detection.
  • Low downtime.
  • Centralized management.
  • Lower level engineering support required.
  • Aruba Networks Wireless LAN (WLAN)
We compared Cisco Acess Point to Aruba and while we found benefits in both, the biggest advantage for us was the fact that we were already an existing Cisco shop and the learning curve to implement Aruba access points over Cisco would have been too costly and time-consuming.
In small to mid-sized deployments, Cisco Aironet and Catalyst Access Points have some coverage gaps. They work really well in high-density environments. With an overlapping coverage model, Cisco Access Points thrive. In smaller models, the roaming and handoff are lackluster at best. You end up with a lot of rap errors.