Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers Review
March 01, 2019
Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers Review
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Software Version
5508 Wireless Controller
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
Wireless is our primary method of communication across our school for staff and student interaction. Our wireless LAN controller runs 205 access points across our campus with 3500+ users.
- Centralized management is essential when you have 200 + access points. This is essential when changing policies or QoS.
- Secure connectivity with 802.1x or Cisco Identity management.
- Radius authentication pass-through for user authentication
- Does an excellent job in managing wireless signals when you have a dense deployment of access points.
- Cost of licenses and appliance.
- Complexity around add-on integrations.
- Reduced the complexity and time around deployment and management for wireless across our campus. Thereby freeing up our tech's time for other duties to improve our service delivery.
- Aruba Networks Wireless LAN (WLAN)
Xirrus/Aruba have interesting deployment methods. Their functionality is largely plug-and-play. They are less complicated to set up but still have similar functionality to Cisco.