Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Review
June 16, 2025

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Review

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Modules Used

  • Cisco Catalyst 9800-40 Wireless Controller
  • Cisco Catalyst 9800-L Wireless Controller

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

So the 9800 controllers are for our wireless environment, we have wireless in all of our sites. And depending upon the site, it's anywhere between 20 APs on up to over 200.

Pros

  • It has a very easy user interface. Once you get into the GUI, once you have it up and running, it's very easy to manage and maintain. Its integration in the Catalyst Center is great as well.

Cons

  • Software distribution through Catalyst Center is sometimes a little bit of an issue, and I know this is about the 9800 controllers, but the EWCs for the 9130 APs, not very good at all. It doesn't work very well.
  • I would say it's a very positive impact simply because it's easy to get it implemented and turned up so that our users can access the network.
I don't think we've had any unplanned outages.
It's very easy.
Used all the Cisco 5504s, the 25, 06s s, all of the old legacy Cisco controllers. And on the competitor side, we did have a few sites that had Aruba and not a fan of that. Cisco is much easier to use, implement and to deploy.

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

Especially in our office environments, it's very easy to go in and set it up and deploy APs and provide wireless coverage. Primarily our office environments no longer use LAN. It's basically all WiFi, so they're very important for our office environments. On the negative side, we do have some deployment issues with our factories where we have coverage problems. That's not really a controller issue, but coverage problems and sometimes we run out of SSIDs because we have so many different environments, whether it's OT IT, certain SSIDs are for handheld, some are for scanners, some are for torque wrenches, so we can only deploy six SSIDs, so that's a restriction for us, some of our manufacturing facilities.

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Feature Ratings

Wireless LAN
Not Rated
Zero-Touch Provisioning
Not Rated
WLAN Performance Monitoring
Not Rated
Topology Maps
Not Rated
Layer 7 Visibility
Not Rated
Power over Ethernet Support
Not Rated
Wireless Security
Not Rated

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