TrustRadius Insights for Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Ease of Management: Users have praised the web management interface for its user-friendly design, making it effortless to navigate and configure settings. They appreciate the ability to have full control over access points in different locations, allowing for efficient management of a large number of APs.
Security Features: Users appreciate the authentication portal for guest users, enhancing security measures within the network. This feature provides a secure way to manage access for visitors, ensuring data protection.
Performance Optimization: Reviewers acknowledge the radio control frequency feature for optimizing signal quality and reducing interference. By prioritizing network traffic for VoIP communication, users ensure smooth connections essential for business operations.
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Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller Reviews
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Our main wireless solution controller is model [Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller], recently purchased for 1 year by the company. Its main goal and main problem to solve is to create unified administration management of more than 150 Cisco Aironet access points installed in central and remote locations [as well as] bring mobility to internal users. In addition to managing everything, it has reporting and monitoring capabilities, equipment status, network traffic, throughput, number of users connected to the 2.4GHz, and 5GHz radio. It is a reliable Cisco 1ru hardware and is connected to the computer switch of the computer's network.
Pros
Visibility and control of applications with Feature AVC
Radio control frequency
Remote and automatic access points configuration from WLC 5520
High availability with WLC 5520 AH
User access control
WiFi 6 Support
Cons
The stroke display panel can still be improved.
Cisco needs to improve multi-language documentation.
Likelihood to Recommend
I would recommend the [Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller] to IT colleagues who [are looking] for a way to manage, control, [and] update Cisco access points automatically without facing hard-hearted headaches. It is easy to schedule a time for updates and access to [the] WiFi network. It has extra features that add more value to the product, [such] as a firewall, access control lists, QoS, authentication portal, and others.
Our Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller is positioned in the main switch and with it, we manage the entire park of access points with internal and external antennas installed in various locations. The scenario used in the WLC 5520 is in high availability with two units to supply in case of hardware problems. With our WLC + Prime, we have control, management, and absolute monitoring of the WLAN network quite easily. We receive alerts via e-mail and SMS in case of access point failures and security problems.
Pros
It has the ability to manage all Cisco access points that we have, regardless of the model. The limit is 1500 pieces of equipment.
The WLC enables roaming functionality in the localities, this helps with collections, wireless IP phones, and access with notebooks.
The WLC manages the quality of the "air" and "signal" of the 2.4ghz frequency, avoiding noise and interference.
The WLC has an interesting feature of visibility of the traffic of the internal network.
Cons
SMARTnet support is expensive.
I haven't seen any technical problems so far.
Likelihood to Recommend
Cisco brings a lot of reliability to its products and durability. With the WLAN line, it is no different. We have a lot of equipment from different areas. We recommend the [Cisco] 5520 [Wireless Controller] in large scenarios and with a high density of connected users because the limit of this hardware is 1500 access points and 20,000 simultaneous clients. The [Cisco] 5520 [Wireless Controller] allows you to manage everything very easily, quickly and remotely instead of configuring one by one. Regardless of where the access points are installed, we are able to monitor and control them. This controller model is already compatible with the recent new standard of the high-speed wifi 6 market, 802.11ax.
The Cisco 5520 [Wireless] Controller controls and manages the access points of some branches. The controllers are deployed in the High Availability topology where the second activates in case the other has a technical problem. We created a Captive portal on this WLC to authenticate users, guests, and employees. Each network is on a different VLAN and with different rules for accessing the internal wireless network. Cisco is a brand of high reliability and brings us security.
Pros
[It] promotes and expands mobility.
[It provides a] portal with authentication for guests and collaborators.
[It] enables roaming.
[It] automatically controls all access points in our network.
Cons
I cannot export the information about the APs to pdf.
[It has a] high-cost value.
Likelihood to Recommend
The [Cisco 5520 Wireless Controller] is essential for the WLAN network and is recommended for any scenario with more than 5 Access points to manage. The radio frequency and range [are] delicate and difficult to dimension in the location and the WLC contributes by calculating and propagating the signal automatically to avoid interference and external noise from other APs with overlapping channels. The equipment is 1U and can be installed in any rack in the data center and connected to the Core switch.
