Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers

In our organization, the Wireless LAN Controllers is responsible for managing, configuring and securing all our wireless access points. We manage close to 800 access points across our office locations, including corporate headquarters and remote project sites. Our wireless networks support internal users, guest users and a growing number of IoT devices.

• Improved productivity as users can access applications from anywhere in the office
• Centralized management for administrators. It becomes easier to configure and manage.
• Scalability. As business grows/expands, it scales fairly well.

We have been using Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers for some time starting with the 2504 and now going to the 9800 series in both hardware and virtual controls. The newer ones allow a much easier fail over capability and the option for a virtual controller removes the need for additional hardware. One manufacturing site has a hardware based controller while the global sites/offices use the virtual ones as their primary.

• The Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers give the business the ability to move from one part of the site to another without any wireless dropouts over a large site.
• 6GHZ frequencies and AX/BE protocols have some issues that need resolving to utilities higher wifi speeds and throughput

Cisco Meraki MR Wireless Access Points and HPE Aruba Networks Wireless WAN

We are using C9800-L-F-K9 and C9800-40, which is implemented over 1200 sites in our environment where wireless is heavily used, it gives us flexibility to make use of wireless media with advance features with IOS-XE based Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers.

It helps us overcomes problems related to Infra and mainly in plant area. Where network drops on forks lifts and scan guns and other type of critical issues. With radio active tracec we can analyse what is happening and how to isolate it.

• Easy traffic handling
• Better performance than AIROS
• Minimal downtime to business
• Better management

WiFi Attendance and NEXUS

Ekho, 123RF.com, CPI Technologies GmbH

We use various Cisco Wireless Lan Controllers at several of our venues and offices. As a network engineer for a live sports and music entertainment company, we use Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers to service all of our Cisco access points in both sparse and dense deployments through our various arenas, theaters, stadiums, and offices. These access points provide wireless connectivity to all of our corporate staff, partners, vendors, and customers.

• High wireless access availability, various options to perform wireless network tuning, a diverse feature set to segment certain parts of wireless traffic based on things like SGTs, AP groups, etc., and the ability to provide various authentication options

Aruba Networks Wireless WAN, Aruba Instant Wi-Fi Access Points and Ruckus ICX Switches

Cisco Meraki Dashboard, Aruba Networks Wireless WAN

We are using Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers in our Wi-Fi Infrastructure. They are managing all lightweight APs and we are collecting subscriber traffic to the Cisco Wireless LAN Controllers and then ISGs. There are some deep packet analysis is needed so I think application visibility center features may be developed further.

• Very positive effect beacuse of robustness
• Negative impact they can allow all sort of APs. I mean from Aironet to Catalyst series

Huawei Wireless and Aruba Networks Wireless WAN

Cisco 1000 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR 1000), Cisco 900 Series Integrated Services Routers (ISR), Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points