I am currently working with Fortinet, but frankly, I have a team which is more working on Fortinet and other products because I am managing them, so I am a little less hands-on right now. Basically, we are a system integrator company, and we provide solutions to customers regarding security, networking, virtualization, and storage. In security, we are working with Fortinet, Trend Micro, Palo Alto, and CrowdStrike, while in networking, we are more geared towards Cisco and also have a few other networking products, with Cisco being at the top. We have work experience with Palo Alto and Cisco, where we have deployed Cisco SD-WAN and Cisco firewalls, meaning we have worked with almost the majority of Cisco products, including Cisco EDR and routers. We work intensively with several vendors including Cisco, Huawei, H3C, and Fortinet, where we have made a lot of deployments for clients. In networking, we have also worked with Aruba and HP Aruba wireless, and when discussing the security side, we have worked with Citrix, Trend Micro, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Cisco. Moreover, we have deployed BeyondTrust for PAM and Cisco email security, and for proxy and internet gateways, we have deployed Saintfort, Kaspersky, and Symantec. Catalyst 9100 Access Points are for indoor use. It shows us all client-related problems from onboarding to every stage, including authentication issues. Previously, there were many obstacles, but now we have given a customer Catalyst Center deployment for proof of concept, and they have agreed to buy it. It is a very effective solution because not many other solutions, including WLC, provide such detail, especially with thousands of clients connected. Additionally, we use Telegraf for telemetry, which extracts a lot of information from the WLC, allowing us to build detailed monitoring systems through Grafana visualization. We have not worked much with AI yet, although it is powerful. Cisco is focusing heavily on AI, particularly with Hypershields in security. However, until now, we have not explored their AI features deeply. We do use AI in security areas with EDRs such as Cisco Stealthwatch and NDR, but from an observability and analytics perspective, we have not delved into that much. My overall review rating for this solution is seven.
Network Design at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
MSP
Top 5
Oct 14, 2025
I am aware that Catalyst 9100 Access Points are used for IoT applications, but at the moment, we are not using it. We may implement this in the future. Regarding DNA software, now named Catalyst Center, we are using the assurance feature. The DNA Center provides wireless assurance, which we find useful. I have recently enabled AI-driven analytics in Cisco. I am aware of the Bluetooth Low Energy tracking capabilities feature. Cisco access points support all the standard security requirements which are applicable. We obtain Cisco access points through partners, as we are partners and we resell it to our customers. I rate Catalyst 9100 Access Points a nine out of ten.
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I am currently working with Fortinet, but frankly, I have a team which is more working on Fortinet and other products because I am managing them, so I am a little less hands-on right now. Basically, we are a system integrator company, and we provide solutions to customers regarding security, networking, virtualization, and storage. In security, we are working with Fortinet, Trend Micro, Palo Alto, and CrowdStrike, while in networking, we are more geared towards Cisco and also have a few other networking products, with Cisco being at the top. We have work experience with Palo Alto and Cisco, where we have deployed Cisco SD-WAN and Cisco firewalls, meaning we have worked with almost the majority of Cisco products, including Cisco EDR and routers. We work intensively with several vendors including Cisco, Huawei, H3C, and Fortinet, where we have made a lot of deployments for clients. In networking, we have also worked with Aruba and HP Aruba wireless, and when discussing the security side, we have worked with Citrix, Trend Micro, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and Cisco. Moreover, we have deployed BeyondTrust for PAM and Cisco email security, and for proxy and internet gateways, we have deployed Saintfort, Kaspersky, and Symantec. Catalyst 9100 Access Points are for indoor use. It shows us all client-related problems from onboarding to every stage, including authentication issues. Previously, there were many obstacles, but now we have given a customer Catalyst Center deployment for proof of concept, and they have agreed to buy it. It is a very effective solution because not many other solutions, including WLC, provide such detail, especially with thousands of clients connected. Additionally, we use Telegraf for telemetry, which extracts a lot of information from the WLC, allowing us to build detailed monitoring systems through Grafana visualization. We have not worked much with AI yet, although it is powerful. Cisco is focusing heavily on AI, particularly with Hypershields in security. However, until now, we have not explored their AI features deeply. We do use AI in security areas with EDRs such as Cisco Stealthwatch and NDR, but from an observability and analytics perspective, we have not delved into that much. My overall review rating for this solution is seven.
I am aware that Catalyst 9100 Access Points are used for IoT applications, but at the moment, we are not using it. We may implement this in the future. Regarding DNA software, now named Catalyst Center, we are using the assurance feature. The DNA Center provides wireless assurance, which we find useful. I have recently enabled AI-driven analytics in Cisco. I am aware of the Bluetooth Low Energy tracking capabilities feature. Cisco access points support all the standard security requirements which are applicable. We obtain Cisco access points through partners, as we are partners and we resell it to our customers. I rate Catalyst 9100 Access Points a nine out of ten.