Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller vs. Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller

68 Reviews and Ratings

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

148 Reviews and Ratings

Overview
Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller	Score8.5 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco 5520 Series Wireless LAN Controller is a highly scalable, service-rich, resilient, and flexible platform that is ideal for medium-sized to large enterprise and campus deployments.	N/A
Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers	Score9.4 out of 10	N/A	The Cisco Catalyst 9800-80 is a modular wireless controller with optional 100 Gigabit Ethernet (G) modular uplinks boasting seamless software updates for large enterprises and campuses, and security with ETA and SD-Access.	N/A

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Pricing Offerings
Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller	Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
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	Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller	Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Considered Both Products	Cisco Verified User Chose Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller Cisco Identity Services Engine is well integrated on Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller because the WLC supports a lot of authentication methods and security protocols (such as PEAP, EAP-TLS, Captive Portal redirect). They perform very well with ISE. Cisco ISE is able to manage … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller has better high availability features compared to the others. Also Cisco has a worldwide service center and is located in nearly all countries to offer fast and reliable support in case of any hardware issue. Also Cisco offers more features, for … Incentivized Helpful?	Cisco Dominic Romandi Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at HCA (Hospital & Health Care, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers We are moving into a more unified and centralized design, and the benefits offered by the 9800 compared to the above listed 5520 series and 8500 series of wireless controller is much preferred. The staggered upgrade option is again another feature much improved moving to the … Incentivized Helpful? Stephen Epley Information Technology Manager in Information Technology at City of Bowling Green (Government Administration, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers More advanced and easier to stand up with virtualization. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers is more modern, looks better, supports newer access points. Using different tags - site tags, policy tags, etc. is a nice way to configure different access point groups or locations. Also Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless … Incentivized Helpful? Louis Stratakos Product owner in Legal at Nestle (Computer Networking, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Older product - less support Incentivized Helpful? Dapo Atejioye Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at Airbus Australia Pacific (Aviation & Aerospace, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Better GUI and telemetry Incentivized Helpful? Gretchen Wendt Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at Koch (Consumer Goods, 10,001+ employees) Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers 9800 is a big improvement in easy of overall configuration, upgrading and troubleshooting. Incentivized Helpful?
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	Delivers good value for the price
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	Happy with the feature set
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	Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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User Ratings
	Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller	Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Likelihood to Recommend	7.1 (13 ratings)	9.7 (88 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (1 ratings)	6.4 (2 ratings)
Usability	7.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)
Availability	- (0 ratings)	9.1 (87 ratings)
Performance	- (0 ratings)	7.1 (88 ratings)
Support Rating	9.2 (7 ratings)	9.1 (1 ratings)
Implementation Rating	9.0 (1 ratings)	- (0 ratings)