8540 Wireless Controller Review
Software Version
8540 Wireless Controller
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
We have customers and our own internal IT running Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers to provide centralised management of multiple APs.
- The wireless controller does well at providing central management of up to 6,000 APs
- Unfortunately, the Aironet controller code over the last few years has become very tired and buggy
- Would love to see more APIs built into the Aironet controllers. The newer generation Catalyst controllers have them
- Positive - It allowed me to support large scale University wireless.
- Negative - As of late, there have been bugs.
As a systems integrator, I have looked at multiple vendors and they all have own positives and negatives that need to be reviewed against a company's requirements.