Cisco Wireless Reviews

Name: Cisco Wireless
Brand: Cisco
Rating: 4 (33 reviews)

Vendor: Cisco

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With Cisco Wireless you will successfully plan, deploy, monitor, troubleshoot, and report on indoor and outdoor wireless networks - all from a centralized location.

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GulfrazAhmad

Division Head Enterprise Infrastructure (SVP) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

Feb 22, 2022

The main concern is the length and overlapping. We have to put on four to six access points on the same floor, and we face the issue of overlapping areas. If Cisco can extend the range of their indoor APs, we would need to install just one or two access points, and it would eliminate the problem of the overlapping area. They should provide built-in features for safe authentication. Right now, we integrate with ISE and FortiClient for this feature. We first check the NAC, and after the NAC and before the domain, a token password installed on their mobile or a physical token is required to join the network. If Cisco had built-in authentication, we would be able to eliminate one product from our network.

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Jhon Montoya

Engineer at Comunidad Cristiana Misioneros San Wenceslao

Dec 20, 2021

The deep knowledge of Cisco is its most valuable aspect. The Wireless Cisco solution has been in development for many years. That gives users trust in the solution. There are many engineers that know how to operate Cisco. If I choose another vendor or another solution, I have to be very careful about how much knowledge is actually there in the market. For example, if I have a problem, how easy is it to find someone, an expert, in order to do a solution for a problem? That's why we choose Cisco. There's deep knowledge there that doesn't exist elsewhere. Also, Cisco has commercial representatives in our country, in our city. It's easy to communicate with Cisco directly. With others, it's not that easy. The integration is great. For all Cisco environments, the integration is easy. W have a lot of Cisco products. The integration between them all is simple. That's why the other company we work for or we as a team choose Cisco as a vendor. The initial setup is easy. We've found the solution to be scalable.

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Domagoj Dujmić

Network engineer at Teva Pharmaceuticals

Oct 25, 2022

You don't have to meddle around with licenses, considering they're onboard with the access points. That took a load off when creating a build of material for a new wireless deployment. We didn't exactly dig deep into these yet. However, they're fairly easy to deploy. We have been using the virtual machines, the 1900 CL virtual controller. They're pretty stable, pretty good. The solution is scalable. I like the new troubleshooting mechanism. With a couple of clicks, you can get a PCAP file, pick up the traffic from a client, and analyze it in Wireshark notepad. I like the new way the wireless is getting built right now, so you have groups with policies that you simply apply to an access point, or you apply a group with all kinds of features like RF policies, and SSIDs to a certain access point and the back point, that access point gets those features up and running immediately or directly after a reboot.

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Pricing

"It is an expensive solution."
"Expensive."
"As far as I know Cisco is very competitive, price-wise. Talk to your third-party vendor. It all depends on the company size - how many employees, how big the building is. If it's wireless, and you have only 50 employees but you're using a large building floor, in that case you need many access points. But if you have 50 employees using two or three rooms, then you probably don't need it and it's going to be high density, so there is a different design. So you need to talk to a subject matter expert. Talk to them and design accordingly."

Valuable Features

"It can provide support for real-time applications, such as VoIP and Video Conferencing over wireless infrastructure."
"Compared to other solutions, captive guest network is one of the best isolation and tunneling."
"The ability to disable RRM or set hybrid RRM provides a more granular design of RF in the environment."

Room For Improvement

"The bind configuration between a physical port and an IP address is missing."
"Improvement needed in RRM, ATF, Ortho-Polarization, AP concurrent client processing."
"If needs to provide more visibility. It can detect and do it, but as technicians we don't have a lot of visibility into seeing exactly what's happening. It doesn't give us a lot of log information for us to troubleshoot. They probably have additional software you need to purchase to get that kind of information. But I think not all companies can afford additional software to see those kinds of details. So if the wireless controller already had, built-in, those types of things for the technician or wireless engineer, it would be more attractive for the end-user."

Pricing

"It is an expensive solution."
"Expensive."
"As far as I know Cisco is very competitive, price-wise. Talk to your third-party vendor. It all depends on the company size - how many employees, how big the building is. If it's wireless, and you have only 50 employees but you're using a large building floor, in that case you need many access points. But if you have 50 employees using two or three rooms, then you probably don't need it and it's going to be high density, so there is a different design. So you need to talk to a subject matter expert. Talk to them and design accordingly."

Valuable Features

"It can provide support for real-time applications, such as VoIP and Video Conferencing over wireless infrastructure."
"Compared to other solutions, captive guest network is one of the best isolation and tunneling."
"The ability to disable RRM or set hybrid RRM provides a more granular design of RF in the environment."

Room For Improvement

"The bind configuration between a physical port and an IP address is missing."
"Improvement needed in RRM, ATF, Ortho-Polarization, AP concurrent client processing."
"If needs to provide more visibility. It can detect and do it, but as technicians we don't have a lot of visibility into seeing exactly what's happening. It doesn't give us a lot of log information for us to troubleshoot. They probably have additional software you need to purchase to get that kind of information. But I think not all companies can afford additional software to see those kinds of details. So if the wireless controller already had, built-in, those types of things for the technician or wireless engineer, it would be more attractive for the end-user."

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Cisco Wireless was previously known as Cisco WLAN Controller.

Cisco Wireless is the #2 ranked solution in top Wireless LAN tools. PeerSpot users give Cisco Wireless an average rating of 8.0 out of 10. Cisco Wireless is most commonly compared to Aruba Wireless: Cisco Wireless vs Aruba Wireless. Cisco Wireless is popular among the large enterprise segment, accounting for 59% of users researching this solution on PeerSpot. The top industry researching this solution are professionals from a computer software company, accounting for 17% of all views.

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