Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued)

Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued)

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Product	Rating	Most Used By	Product Summary	Starting Price
Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued)	Score7.4 out of 10	N/A	Currently supported by Cisco, but no longer sold, Cisco recommends migration to the Cisco Catalyst 9100 Family of Access Points, which offer greater performance and flexibility.	N/A

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Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued)

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Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued)
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	Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued)
Considered Both Products	Discontinued Products Charles Lund Director of Network Services in Information Technology at Millersville University (Education Management, 201-500 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) We are a Cisco shop and have been very happy with Cisco, so purchasing these APs was a natural choice for us. We are also an educational institution, and Cisco offers us amazing pricing. Incentivized Helpful? Umair Ali Khan Network Administrator in Information Technology at Pak Suzuki Motor Company (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) D-Link Wireless network solution was being used previously in [a] few areas of our plant and it was working well with [a] low number of users but as the company grew, and user base started to grow we started seeing hanging, disconnection, and very low-performance issues in our … Incentivized Helpful? Ahmed Mujeeb Senior Executive Network Administrator in Information Technology at Pakistan Cables Limited (Consumer Goods, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) Product durability and Cisco active support. Incentivized Helpful? Umair Ali Khan Deputy Manager - IT Operations (Network Infrastructure) in Information Technology at Pak Suzuki Motor Company Limited (Automotive, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) D-Link Wireless access points and D-Link Wireless controllers were being used in our organization previously. They were working well with a small number of users. But as we started to expand wireless coverage and the user base started to grow they became less efficient and … Incentivized Helpful? Tomasz Piekarski Junior Professional Net Engineer in Information Technology at itelligence (Telecommunications, 201-500 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) Cisco Aironet Access Points and Wireless LAN Controllers provide more advanced functions, more security options and better interoperability with other Cisco products than Aruba IAPs. Incentivized Helpful? Girgis Hady IT Network Manager in Information Technology at WadiDegla (Sports, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) As our network was depending on Cisco, it was the optimum solution to complete the network with the new model on Access Points. Also the new series has great features [such] as mobility express to use in small offices. Incentivized Helpful? Luis Felipe Campa Macias Coordinador de telecomunicaciones in Information Technology at Grupo Vitalmex S.A. de C.V. (Logistics and Supply Chain, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) Por la confianza en la marca cisco, por las capacidades de las controladoras 2400 y 5500, asi como la disponibilidad de soporte, información y de productos durante un RMA o incidente. For the trust in the Cisco brand, for the capabilities of the 2400 and 5500 controllers, as … Incentivized Helpful? Axel David Olivares Hernández IT Manager in Information Technology at Gemex Corporativo (Oil & Energy, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) The manufacturing quality of the access point is superior with Cisco even if the environment where you are going to deploy the access point is clean and is a perfect building. It's better to ensure every kind of scenarios where you can encounter dangers to your infrastructure. I… Incentivized Helpful? Isaias Mendoza IT in Engineering at BBVA (Banking, 201-500 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) We chose Cisco Aironet due to its fully LAN/WLAN integration and homology with actual Cisco LAN networking on the client's side. Incentivized Helpful? Erick Saldana IT Infrastructure Analyst in Information Technology at Owens - Illinois (Information Technology and Services, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) I have used 2600, 2700 and I see better performance with each model. So far the 2800 series have been the best, no issues so far. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) Beside Cisco Aironet and Cisco Meraki we have not tested any other competing products. Incentivized Helpful? Jonathan Cabestel Creador de paquetes de aplicación in Corporate at kiron (Financial Services, 201-500 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) We made our purchase decision based on Cisco access points being airthight and all others we reviewed were not, while reading product features it looks like fast roaming is also only really supported at Cisco so after we found those two features we stopped looking for … Incentivized Helpful? Edwin Sandys Manager Enterprise Systems & Networks Infrastructure in Information Technology at The University of the South Pacific (Higher Education, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) We did explore an alternate path for wireless which caused more grief than good, which is why we returned back to Cisco. Since taking things through wireless controllers, we could not be happier. Incentivized Helpful? Aldo Adrián Ramírez Vázquez Preventa Cisco in Professional Services at TNDM (Information Technology and Services, 51-200 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) The brands I mentioned, have a lot of pros and cons, however, I love Aironet because of it having mobility express. No one else has this solution and it's the easiest web GUI. The graphical interface, the reports, analitycs and the integrations with other solutions from Cisco … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) Motorola started up very well but they quickly fell into a pattern of "this is what we know and we will stick to it." Cisco on the other hand, keeps improving with new solutions and firmware to keep improving roaming. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) I tested Aerohive in my previous company and I think the killer feature was the cloud controller and also that every AP can work independently from the controller. At the end we didn't change the vendor. Then I just evaluated Meraki, that it's really plug and play, but with no … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) The Cisco Aironet Access Points stack up well against the others that were in consideration to help with our organization's goals. The main criteria taken into considering which option to move forward with was 1. Compatibility 2. Ease of Use 3. Setup 4. Cost. The access point … Incentivized Helpful? Justin McDermott Information Security Architect in Information Technology at Wintrust Financial Corporation (Financial Services, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) While we do use Meraki we choose to use Cisco Aironet access points due to the flexibility and maximum configuration options. Meraki does not have this. Incentivized Helpful? James Arnold Network Administration Supervisor in Information Technology at Associated Electric Cooperative (Utilities, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) The Cisco APS has greater cell sizes. Incentivized Helpful? Hawkinson, John Senior Network Engineer in Information Technology at City of Wichita (Government Administration, 1001-5000 employees) Chose Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued) N/A Incentivized Helpful?
	Would buy again
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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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	Implementation went as expected
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User Ratings
	Cisco Aironet 2800 Series Access Points (discontinued)
Likelihood to Recommend	7.0 (28 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	9.1 (3 ratings)
Usability	6.6 (3 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (1 ratings)
Performance	10.0 (11 ratings)
Support Rating	6.8 (2 ratings)
Implementation Rating	8.2 (2 ratings)
Product Scalability	10.0 (11 ratings)
Vendor post-sale	7.3 (1 ratings)
Vendor pre-sale	5.5 (1 ratings)