Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

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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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	Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Considered Both Products	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? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Easy to manage and centralized policy manager Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Used all the Cisco 5504s, the 25, 06s s, all of the old legacy Cisco controllers. And on the competitor side, we did have a few sites that had Aruba and not a fan of that. Cisco is much easier to use, implement and to deploy. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers I've used Ruckus Zone director, so another controller. It's way more robust. There's more features and there's more devices that integrates with. So overall, a more comprehensive solution, I think. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Honestly, I haven't used a non Cisco wireless controller since about 2004 when I used to put autonomous APs in. It's the difference between eating broken glass and having a five star meal. I mean there's no comparison. Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers From a wireless standpoint? Just any, well, we have the 9300 switches from Cisco. We also just went to the new firewalls that Cisco just came out. I forget the product name right now. So I like the wireless controller from a ease access or be able to configure better than 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 is more industrial grade 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? Severin Ahouama Network Engineer in Information Technology at Netze-BW (Telecommunications, 5001-10,000 employees) Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers I use it every day for daily work Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers We use Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers as standard in the company Incentivized Helpful? Jakub Pelka Infrastructure Engineer in Engineering at Brabant Water (Utilities, 501-1000 employees) Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Ubiquiti WLAN is very much a consumer platform. It is not production ready, it is buggy, it has issues. It is cheaper than Cisco, but you get what you pay for. Aruba doesn't integrate nicely with our existing largely Cisco based networks, so when time came to replace AireOS, … 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? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers can be easily integrated with Cisco Identity Service Engine. It is easy to configure policy sets for multiple authentication methods like MAB, dot1x, Centralized web authentication. Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers … Incentivized Helpful? Verified User Chose Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers Recommended by technical professionals Incentivized Helpful?
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	Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Likelihood to Recommend	9.7 (88 ratings)
Likelihood to Renew	6.4 (2 ratings)
Availability	9.1 (87 ratings)
Performance	7.1 (88 ratings)
Support Rating	9.1 (1 ratings)