Frankly, ease of use is one of the things that needs improvement, as the management interfaces have always been complex and not very intuitive. I believe Cisco needs to enhance its visibility solutions, just like FortiAnalyzer from Fortinet, which has put considerable effort into monitoring. Cisco is currently working on this but tends to have complexity when it comes to graphical interfaces, so I think they need improvement in ease of use. Particularly in the AI area, knowing that Juniper offers comprehensive AI features for problem detection and detailed visibility, I think Cisco needs better AI tools, similar to what Juniper provides with Mist. Cisco claims they are embedding AI, but they still lag behind. It is not that complex, but I believe there is a bit of difficulty when compared with other solutions.
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Catalyst 9100 Access Points is a very useful product, but it's quite an old one. Some quality of service features could be added as a high-end technical feature. The traffic analyzer is something which is quite useful. We do some sort of rate limiting, per user, per AP. It needs to be more flexible when it comes to bandwidth allocation. I suggest that Cisco can add functionality where the user should be able to allocate specific bandwidth at a user level. For example, if there are 10 users with limited internet bandwidth, that bandwidth should be able to be allocated equally to all users.
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Frankly, ease of use is one of the things that needs improvement, as the management interfaces have always been complex and not very intuitive. I believe Cisco needs to enhance its visibility solutions, just like FortiAnalyzer from Fortinet, which has put considerable effort into monitoring. Cisco is currently working on this but tends to have complexity when it comes to graphical interfaces, so I think they need improvement in ease of use. Particularly in the AI area, knowing that Juniper offers comprehensive AI features for problem detection and detailed visibility, I think Cisco needs better AI tools, similar to what Juniper provides with Mist. Cisco claims they are embedding AI, but they still lag behind. It is not that complex, but I believe there is a bit of difficulty when compared with other solutions.
Catalyst 9100 Access Points is a very useful product, but it's quite an old one. Some quality of service features could be added as a high-end technical feature. The traffic analyzer is something which is quite useful. We do some sort of rate limiting, per user, per AP. It needs to be more flexible when it comes to bandwidth allocation. I suggest that Cisco can add functionality where the user should be able to allocate specific bandwidth at a user level. For example, if there are 10 users with limited internet bandwidth, that bandwidth should be able to be allocated equally to all users.