Stay connected with Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
March 26, 2025

Stay connected with Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

imad Tarabichi | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 7 out of 10
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Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

These Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers are deployed in our campus but not only because we are integrating the same for our end customer. They provide a smooth centralized management

Pros

  • Centralized management
  • Stability & Scalability
  • Support wifi6

Cons

  • to lower their cost comparing to other supplier
  • it considerably helps to reduce the OPEX by reducing the time people spend usually on troubleshooting
  • scalable that helps to prevent upgrade costs !
the DNA integration was very helpful and useful : in a central tool you got a detailed report and information on your network health and states ! the analytics part that help most of the time to detect and resolve issue proactively
it helps a lot in making network highly available and in reducing network downtime when using ISSU Feature ( in-service software upgrade ) in Europe where the environment matter become very important for as as well as for our customer, having these generation helped in reducing the electricity consumption by making usage optimization
by redundant architecture deployment the standby Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers always takes over when the active one fails, so failover is transparent. within the distributed design, the AP keep providing wireless connection and maintain its user connection sessions even their primary controller failed helping in having a very good user experience.
using the DNA center helps a lots, it will be here to act as the central tool to configure and push the policy across the connected APs in your network. using what we called group policy and profile, will make the job easier and help to enforce the deployment on the end devices already segmented and categorized whatever the device role is

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

it not about a specific scenarios, but when it a comes to operation day to day staff, having a centralized management plane will ease the life of everyone. Integration Cisco DNA will ease the management of the Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers, making access point set up and policy push a very simple task telemetry and observability allow us to detect and resolve potential issue in very effective manner !

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Feature Ratings

Wireless LAN
8.2
Zero-Touch Provisioning
9
WLAN Performance Monitoring
9
Topology Maps
9
Layer 7 Visibility
9
Power over Ethernet Support
4
Wireless Security
9

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