Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Review
February 12, 2025

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Review

Enes Kayahan | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Modules Used

  • Cisco Catalyst 9800-L Wireless Controller

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

We use it for one of our new locations. It helped us to establish new 6 GHz radio band which we couldn't with previous product. For now we have 300+ clients using this product and it will get larger. Policy, profile and tag system was pretty simple and helpful. Also new HA options are very good.

Pros

  • High Availability
  • Monitoring
  • Segmentation

Cons

  • Client Radio statistics should be on a table which can be exported as excel file
  • More REST API support
  • Better DCA functions
  • Decreased our man/hour numbers for dealing wifi issues
  • Good monitoring helped us with MDM based SSID
  • Security capabilities helped us with security audits
  • Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
Having Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers along with Cisco Identity Services helped us with seamless Guest and BYOD services due to both being produced by Cisco because there are lots of documentation, TAC Support and Cisco Community topics helps a lot. Also profiling becomes more easy with having both ends being Cisco products.
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.
High availability options are very good. You have multiple options so you can select whichever suits you well. Also you can mix it up if you have more controllers so your downtime risk decreases sharply. Users will not feel any connection issues thanks to powerful and flexible high availability options that Cisco provides.
Flexible policy options help a lot for controlling our wireless environment. Various SSID with policy based management helps a lot with segmentation.

Do you think Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers again?

Yes

Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), Cisco Catalyst Center, Splunk Enterprise
If High Availability is important for your wireless environment Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers are perfect for your environment. If you are using Cisco Identity Services as your Radius/Nac device, relation between Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers and Cisco ISE is seamless and smooth. Setting up Guest and BYOD network using redirection to a captive portal very easy.

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Feature Ratings

Wireless LAN
10.0
WLAN Performance Monitoring
10
Layer 7 Visibility
10
Power over Ethernet Support
10
Wireless Security
10

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