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The industry standard for anything small or big in Wi-Fi
February 07, 2024

The industry standard for anything small or big in Wi-Fi

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
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Modules Used

  • Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points
  • Cisco Catalyst 9120 Access Points
  • Cisco Catalyst 9136 Access Points

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points

Cisco 3800 Series
Our Wi-Fi network is built solely around several thousand Cisco APs that provide wireless access to all our users mobile devices. These include laptops, phones, tablets, medical equipment and so on. Our infrastructure stretches across varied locations from a few APs to thousands per location. Our users rely heavily on a functional wireless network.
  • Ease of deployment
  • Reliability
  • Ability to support our WiFi need
  • Packaging
  • Power draw
  • Long life and support
  • Ease of deployment
Using Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points you can expect good performance, if not excellent. Coupled with other tools and managment systems you can easily gain good insight and ease of management. Flexible deployment variations help you adopt the equipment to work for most any required scenario you could think of. It's a well designed and evolved product.
From a single to thousands of access points. The scaleability is excellent. As you would expect from a serious vendor like Cisco.
When you have the controller set up, the actual deployment of the access points can be as little as 30 minutes. They are plug and play if you have your underlying infrastructure and controller setup ready. Access points locate and associate with a controller, updates and becomes available in minutes. Then it's just a matter of assigning the access point to a template and allow the controller to push to configuration out to enable the wireless service.
Definately. A central management allows us to manage and deploy multiple sites with ease. It allows us insight into the health and status of our setup.

Do you think Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points delivers good value for the price?

Not sure

Are you happy with Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points again?

Yes

Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points are well suited for most applications as they scale very well and can be configured to work in a lot of different scenarios. However they are quite costly so they may not be suited for all business purposes. But they do perform and deliver and rarely cause issues.

Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points Feature Ratings

Wireless LAN
7.7
Zero-Touch Provisioning
8
WLAN Performance Monitoring
7
Power over Ethernet Support
8

Cisco Aironet Additional Questions

  • Wireless client support
  • Scalability
  • Uptime
  • Performance
  • Management ability
  • Scalability
  • Ease of Use
Scalability is very important as well as the ease of performing scalability. The ability to manage and have a good overview of how the access points perform are important. It must be easy to execute changes either by adding or removing access points and maintaining a stable working wireless network.
Follow Cisco's recommendations and make sure the configuration matches the end device and use case. Cisco has great resources for how to best implement a solution that will work for your case.