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Avaya Wireless [EOL] vs Cisco Wireless comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Avaya Wireless [EOL]
Average Rating
3.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Cisco Wireless
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
154
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Wireless LAN (2nd)
 

Featured Reviews

DM
Chief of Engineering at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Reporting issues are slow and painful and it needs a controller
1. Avaya wireless was sold to Extreme three years ago with all LAN gears. 2. The advanced APs are working correctly. The low-end APs aren’t working correctly. After three months of troubleshooting and four patches, we ended up replacing the APs at our own expense. 3. Lesson learned: select a brand with a controller. Avaya claims that their AP with an embedded controller makes the central controller obsolete. With our controller, deployment is more difficult as roaming between AP relies on device thresholds. Android, iOS, Dell PC, Spectralink barcode readers all have different Decibel thresholds ranging from 72 DB to 104db. A controller watches mobile devices as they move and instruct the nonoptimal AP not to talk to the device.
EvansEsezobor - PeerSpot reviewer
Group IT Head at Euracare
Has enabled centralized user management and improved wireless access point aggregation
To improve Cisco Wireless, the ports on the access points are all 100 Meg, not 1 gig. We have not gotten a gigabyte interface of about 1,000, but the controller we have is just 1 gig. We would prefer if we could increase the controller to a 10 gig interface because we want to connect our controller to a 10 gig interface, which currently limits us to 1 gig. When we want to move higher capacity data via wireless, it limits us to 1 gig.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The product has good stability and deployment, and is easy to configure."
"The powerful radio is the most valuable feature."
"The WOS makes management and troubleshooting easier."
"The FlexConnect feature is the most valuable."
"I like many of the features that Cisco Wireless has to offer."
"The ability to make different types of networks, such as land networks, is the most valuable part of the solution."
"The most important thing for me is that all the access points are in one group and use one access code. So, when you move from one area to another, you don't disconnect and reconnect again. The device is also very easy to install and control."
"The switches can even detect cable issues which quite often can be the main cause for a call-out within my business."
"Setting up Cisco Wireless is pretty straightforward. It takes about an hour or two, and we can handle it in-house. To deploy one project, it takes two to three for a single controller."
"Cisco Wireless solutions are easy to use."
"Most companies have Cisco as their backbone infrastructure and if you have Cisco solutions already in place, you should continue with Cisco."
 

Cons

"Avaya's APs were OEM with firmware provided by another firm. Reporting issues were slow and painful."
"Signal frequency can be problematic, especially when compared to other brands such as Aruba, HP, and Cisco."
"The product is too expensive and does not provide small enterprises with any advantages."
"Cisco Wireless has not been that stable. In the past, Cisco Wireless could handle only a small number of users per access point."
"The solution could be more stable."
"Cost. Also, it is slow to update configurations, with cloud access, no way to configure devices locally, network data information is hard to find."
"The product is quite expensive, and it's making us reconsider staying with Cisco."
"There are performance issues, particularly with video calls where throughput is not great."
"Room for improvement wise, the wireless coverage of Cisco's equipment could be better for the price position. That is, I think that the radius for the coverage could be better to make it worth the price that we pay for it."
"The pricing could be reduced."
"The biggest reason why we could no longer continue with Cisco Wireless was because of the high cost to upgrade everything."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"Cisco is more on the expensive side, as compared to Aruba, but I must say Cisco's quality is unmatched, for sure."
"Its licensing is not simple. There are additional license costs for features, which is frustrating for us. There are some features that are included for free in the base Aruba product, but they are available at additional costs in this solution."
"The solution is very costly."
"The solution is a little expensive compared to other brands."
"The product could be priced better."
"There is no license required to use Cisco Wireless solutions."
"I rate the product price an eight on a scale of one to ten, where one is low price and ten is high price."
"Cisco Wireless is a little bit expensive when compared to other solutions."
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Comparison Review

it_user212721 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Mar 24, 2015
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Top Industries

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Manufacturing Company
12%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
9%
Construction Company
6%
 

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Company SizeCount
Small Business79
Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise74
 

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Also Known As

Wireless LAN 9100, Avaya WLAN
Cisco WLAN Controller
 

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