Cisco Wireless LAN Controller - quick and easy wireless
March 08, 2019
Cisco Wireless LAN Controller - quick and easy wireless
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Software Version
5520 Wireless Controller
Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers
We are using the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller (WLC) to provide XaaS for Wireless. A redundant pair of WLCs are installed in our data centers. Customers who subscribe to our services have access points (APs) deployed at their site which register with the WLC and are then centrally managed and monitored.
Cisco WLC provides central management and monitoring of a large number of APs across multiple customer sites, as well as touchless deployment of APs with WLC discovery. Self-healing wireless continually monitors the RF environment and updates channel or power assignment based on interference, holes, etc.
Cisco WLC provides central management and monitoring of a large number of APs across multiple customer sites, as well as touchless deployment of APs with WLC discovery. Self-healing wireless continually monitors the RF environment and updates channel or power assignment based on interference, holes, etc.
- Quick and easy AP deployment across multiple remote sites using DNS WLC discovery. Ship the AP to the site and plug in. Then it's centrally configured from WLC
- Easy to use web UI - You can create and get a wireless LAN running very quickly
- Basic guest functionality included - you don't need to buy separate infrastructure and servers to provide wireless guest web authentication
- SSO HA - seamless failover for APs and clients
- Too many configuration options - I'd like to hide options that are not generally required to be modified. Make best practice configuration the default
- Web UI is looking a bit dated and needs an update
- Ability to export client or AP lists or details from the web UI
- Quick and easy deployment of new sites.
- Self-healing RF management requires less tuning and troubleshooting.
- It is scalable to support more sites and APs by adding AP licenses.
Aruba controllers provide similar functionality to Cisco WLC. However, the Cisco web UI is a little easier to set up a new wireless LAN for new users.