Item: Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers
Rating: 10
Author: Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We have two Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers supporting three thousand wireless access points. We use profiles and tags to apply different policies, as well as staff, student, guests, and event vlans. We have two controllers to divide up our access points and policies between 52+ school campuses. We are also using Cisco Prime.

Pros and Cons

Pros

Policies
Tags
Rogue AP identification
Dissociated AP identification

Cons

Running reports is terribly unintuitive
Exporting reports is clunky
Navigating the UI can be difficult if you haven't used it in a while

Performance

High availability, very little downtime. Everything works well once configured correctly.

Reliability and Availability

It's good.

Access Point Management

Provides greater control of policies across multiple access points.

Key Insights

Do you think Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers's feature set?

Yes

Did Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers live up to sales and marketing promises?

I wasn't involved with the selection/purchase process

Did implementation of Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers go as expected?

I wasn't involved with the implementation phase

Would you buy Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers again?

Yes

Other Software Used

Cisco Prime LAN Management (discontinued)

Likelihood to Recommend

We don't really have too many issues once the policies are tested and proved to be working the way we want. It just works.

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