Cisco Wireless Stability

PS
Technology Specialist at a consultancy with 1-10 employees

The stability is fantastic. I can't complain. Not one bit.

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Michael Lees - PeerSpot reviewer
Production Director at Whitespider

The tool is stable. The statefulness between the controllers works well. Uptime is very strong. I rate the stability a nine out of ten. It is a very stable platform.

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LM
Network Engineer at County of victoria

The solution is extremely stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

The one issue we did have was with their mesh radios. I'm not sure that it was with the radio itself, the software in the radio. They run two different firmware. One is autonomous firmware, which they use with their AP line and then lightweight APs. With the autonomous one, there's no consistency there. For the indoor APs, you'll have lightweight firmware that you need on them. And then for the outdoor mesh radios, they're not fully autonomous, yet you have to have the autonomous software on them for the mesh feature to function. That's a little bit convoluted and I kind of wished that would just have it one way or the other.

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Cisco Wireless
April 2024
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GulfrazAhmad - PeerSpot reviewer
Division Head Enterprise Infrastructure (SVP) at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is stable and reliable. In the last seven to eight years, we had zero downtime in our production environment. That's also because we have it in cluster mode. So, if one controller fails, the second one will automatically take over.

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Yaser_Altwailey - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at General Authority OF ZAKAT & TAX

It is a very stable solution. My company uses various redundancy models since it is the most important factor for ensuring stability.

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Marc Gaethofs - PeerSpot reviewer
ICT manager at Thys Bouwprojecten

This solution is highly stable. We have only had one issue in seven years. We had one issue with our controllers. We upgraded our controllers and there was a little bug, but that was solved very quickly.

Also, we've never experienced any downtime.

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Radek Skrivanek - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Leader: Project Leadership Production Compact at SKODA AUTO a.s.

It is a stable solution.

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RM
Supervisor, Technology at Tcps

I rate the tool's stability a nine out of ten. 

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DD
Network engineer at Teva Pharmaceuticals

The solution is stable and reliable. There are no bugs or glitches, and it doesn't crash or freeze.

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IT
Technology Manager at International School Of Dakar

We really have good stability. Because classes and work work well.

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DH
Advisor at Flex Office 365

The product’s stability is great.

The internet speed is high within environments. As you move further away from the access point, there is a decline in speed. Omada or Ruckus don’t have the speed degradation as you move away from the access point.

I rate the solution’s stability a seven out of ten.

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Kamran Aslam - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager IT at Sefam pvt limited

It is a stable solution. The performance was good. However, most of the issues were due to changes in Cisco versions. 

There were more than 25,000 students who were using it. It was a good experience for us because Cisco supported us in our workflow. We were facing many problems before Cisco, but after implementing it, we had great functionality. And since then, we haven't changed a single AP.

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HH
Coordinator of the IT Department at College Notre-Dame

The Cisco system worked well before, for many years. It was only after we started having capacity issues that we found the stability was suffering.

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Pratik Kadam - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Specialist at Anheuser-Busch InBev

The tool is stable.

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Tonderai Tandi - PeerSpot reviewer
Infrastructure Engineer at Alfred H Knight

Stability-wise, I rate the solution a seven out of ten.

There are some instances where the connectors in the tool don't allow users to browse the internet.

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Arif-Kundi - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at BazTech

The stability of Cisco Wireless was excellent, with no complaints about downtime.

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TM
Network Architect at Summa Health System

The solution is pretty solid in terms of stability. Out of a rating of ten, I would give them a nine. It's reliable and doesn't crash or freeze. It's not buggy at all.

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Abubakar Bello - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Administrator at NDIC

The tool is very stable. I rate the stability a nine out of ten.

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UmairMemon - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Specialist at Mercury Limited

Stability could be improved but it's not bad. 

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VG
Manager at a computer software company with 10,001+ employees

Cisco Wireless has not been that stable. In the past, Cisco Wireless could handle only a small number of users per access point. Once the number of users per access point increases beyond 10 or 15, you start facing disconnection issues with the users, and the performance slows. This has been my experience in the past five years, but Cisco has made a lot of improvements in their access points over the past two years.

Now it's a multi-band network, so they have improved on that front. The connections are stable. The performance still degrades if the number of users per access point increases, but now it's 20 or 30 users on the same access point. So you have to plan your access point design and placement so no more than 20 users will be connected to one access point.

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Muhammad Harun-Owr-Roshid - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at BRIGHT-i SYSTEMS LIMITED

The product is stable.

I rate the solution’s stability a nine out of ten.

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PV
Data Communications Manager at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

I rate the product's stability an eight out of ten. 

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Johnson Olajide - PeerSpot reviewer
Director, Business Technology Solutions at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees

It is extremely stable.

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Fahad Doguwa - PeerSpot reviewer
Deputy Manager at Central Bank of Nigeria

The stability of the solution has been fine for over a decade. The newer solutions will have better technology and will give us more.

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JA
Domain Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

The solution is stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

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YK
Senior Network Engineer at a museum or institution with 501-1,000 employees

The product has been stable for the last two years.

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JaromirLikavec - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer, IT Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

Cisco Wireless solutions are highly scalable.

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TW
Mgr - Applications Enterprise Applications at a healthcare company with 10,001+ employees

Stability's good. I'm not saying we don't end up with something flakey every once in a while, but it's not often at all.

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DP
Network Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

While the product is stable, in some areas when the user sees a disconnection, we are not able to identify whether it's an access point issue or if it is due to some interference in that area of the hospital (due to hospital equipment). We need help detecting issues via the controller.

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JR
Director of Technology at a individual & family service with 201-500 employees

Cisco Wireless is stable.

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Karthick Chandrasekaran - PeerSpot reviewer
Solutions Architect at Espina IT

The product is stable. Cisco provides good support services in case of outages.

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IT
Technology Manager at International School Of Dakar

The solution is stable. However, I had some issues last month with older Cisco wireless solutions. The certificates for some access points had expired and did not want to connect to the WLC.
Finally, I found a solution and got them all to work fine.

Why did I say it is stable. Since, we had installed it from 2009 until 2020 we had no major problem.
We started with a single SSID then with 2 SSIDs then we went up to 4 SSIDs. All 3 used authentication with a radius server. The fourth was managed by the WLC as Guest wifi.
This situation had to be foreseen because Cisco had announced on June 30, 2016 the dates of discontinuation and end of life of the range of our access points. The end date of routine failure analysis and new service provision had been declared on December 29, 2017.
It took 4 years later to face this certification problem.
Our network system of Cisco was really user-friendly:
-With printing with google cloud before it is stopped.
Our new MYQ system is too
- With our IP phone system
- With all practices (Windows, Mac, Tablets, phones and chromebooks)
- With our accounting system.
We really say Alhamdoulila.

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DO
Gerente División Plataforma at Sonda S.A.

The solution is very stable. There are issues with bugs or glitches. It's reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze at all.

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HS
Sr. System Analyst at NSUT

The stability is good. 

For wireless, I would say it is good. But when we were using the Cisco firewall we found some difficulties setting up and our internet was breaking up or something like that. But from a wireless point of view, it is fine.

Also, one point which just came to my mind about Cisco is if we could have some kind of calculation for the access points because then maybe we could make a web off of all of them. "How much of that access point is required. This access point is covering this much area." If we can have that kind of information it would be easier for us to calculate the capacity. 

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it_user836463 - PeerSpot reviewer
Operations at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees

No issues with stability.

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DP
Consultant at Lifeline IT

I rate the solution ten out of ten for stability.

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AS
Technology Architect at a construction company with 10,001+ employees

It is stable and reliable.

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RR
Senior Manager at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The latest version of this technology is stable. It is stable but, the devices that are accessing the network are very dynamic. It is not as much the solution that is unstable as that the devices accessing it are constantly changing.

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WS
Support at Za irery

Cisco Wireless is stable.

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PauloDiniz - PeerSpot reviewer
Sales Leader - Data Center at YSSY & Co

The stability has been great. We haven't had any issues. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches that you have to deal with. The performance is good. 

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Anton Krivonosov - PeerSpot reviewer
Application Security Architect at Kuehne & Nagel Inc.

I have had no problems at all with stability.

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YA
Network Engineer at Saudi Customs

The solution has been quite stable. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. The performance is largely pretty good.

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LT
Telecommunications Specialistde Telecomunicaciones at Telalca

The stability is very good.

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DR
DPKO at a government with 10,001+ employees

We don't have issues with stability. It's been quite reliable for us. We don't have issues with bugs or glitches and it doesn't seem to crash or freeze. We've had a good experience with it overall.

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MG
Head Of Architecture Department at a university with 51-200 employees

I would be liar if I answered if it is stable because it has only been up for two days.

But the Cisco solution overall, and Cisco Wireless generally, are 100% stable.

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RK
Operations Manager at a computer software company with 5,001-10,000 employees

I find the solution to be very stable. 

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Radek Skrivanek - PeerSpot reviewer
Department Leader: Project Leadership Production Compact at SKODA AUTO a.s.

The solution is stable but it could be improved. However, this could be because there are not enough APs.

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AD
Chief of Systems at a mining and metals company with 5,001-10,000 employees

There are a few issues initially with the stability but they were resolved quickly by Cisco.

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Yaser-Altwailey - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer at Saudi Customs

 Cisco Wireless is reliable and stable. 

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AL
Executive at FFC

We have not experienced any issue with the stability of Cisco Wireless.

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FS
Senior Network Engineer at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

It's a stable product.

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it_user842922 - PeerSpot reviewer
Team Lead - Network and System Engineer at a non-tech company with 501-1,000 employees

It's very, very stable. We have hardly ever had any problems with it as far rebooting itself, or it couldn't handle the load it had, given how we initially we sized it. It hasn't caused any problems.

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CR
Telecom/Networking Analyst at a religious institution with 1,001-5,000 employees

It's a reliable solution.

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it_user174498 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Networks and Security Manager at a comms service provider with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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MN
Network & Information Security Engineer at a healthcare company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The stability is very good. I can't find any fault. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very reliable. 

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DT
CEO at Dinet Systems Ltd

I have a problem with the small device. Product from Series 300. Sometimes you have to reset this device. Maybe the buffer is overflowing, But after I reset the devices, it's work okay.

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it_user173814 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager, IT Infrastructure at a computer software company with 501-1,000 employees

None encountered.

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VK
Network Engineer at a retailer with 10,001+ employees

The stability could improve, there are some issues. We were told the version of the software we are using on all of the controllers is best for Cisco IOS, but we might need to update our software. Doing so might fix the stability issues we are experiencing.

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GD
Presales Engineer with 51-200 employees

The stability of the power was an issue for us recently. The access point seems to have enough power, but it turns out it did not have enough power.

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US
Senior Manager, Information Technology at a university with 201-500 employees

The performance of Cisco is very good. It's a stable product for the most part. That said, there is always room for improvement. 

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Hassen Ellouze - PeerSpot reviewer
Co-Director at Proxym Group

I would rate the stability a nine out of ten. Within our customers, the hospital infrastructure is established from the first day, and it's still stable. 

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SA
Director Of Information Communication Technology at Dire dawa University

This solution is very stable, we don't have any problems with it.

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MP
Senior Technical Consultant at BT - British Telecom

The stability of this product is good. 

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SD
Network Engineer at a energy/utilities company with 10,001+ employees

The solution is stable.

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SS
C.T.O at Sastra Network Solution Inc. Pvt. Ltd.

The stability is excellent.

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CC
Cisco Network Engineer at a pharma/biotech company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have to do a few tweaks in order to stabilize it. We have tweaked its configuration through their support center, and we even got a third-party vendor out here to kind of take a look at it, which improved it a little but not a hundred percent. We have several users who get dropped from the Wi-Fi every once in a while. APs also don't typically work. They just stop working. We have to reboot them, and they magically work. 

With all the testing that we have done with Aruba for the last six to seven months, we have not had this problem. This is one of the key points why we are switching over.

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MO
Senior Operation Manager at ATG Systems

It is stable. 

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AshokKumar15 - PeerSpot reviewer
Presales Consultant - Enterprise Networks at Cubit technologies LLC

Cisco Wireless solutions are highly reliable.

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WK
Board Member and Co-Owner at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

We've never faced any stability issues. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's reliable. 

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GG
Network Consultant at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

It is very stable.

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MC
Technical Specialist at Wipro Technologies

The wireless controller runs smoothly, without any issues.

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TA
Manager at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

As a wireless solution, it's very stable.

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it_user901734 - PeerSpot reviewer
User at renault

I have not encountered any issues around the stability of this product. I'm satisfied with this aspect. It provides good functionality and hierarchy for a wireless network.

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HK
Wireless Network Engineer at a comms service provider with 51-200 employees

Everything is fine. Cisco products are perhaps the most reliable on the market. While deploying, we have never faced an issue.

Different issues come up for the different companies because they need different things done in their networks, so that depends on the company. But in the deployment, hardware-wise, there isn't any problem. There is always room for the improvement but, from my perspective, no problems with stability.

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it_user174588 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager at a consultancy with 51-200 employees
TT
Administrator at SOURTHERN WAVES Solution

The product is very stable.

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SP
Network and Security Engineer at SK international

Cisco Wireless is obviously very stable, and there's no doubt about that. When you go for Airwave, it's very stable. The new IOx is going to be stable, and we're deploying it for a couple of customers.

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AA
Head of IT Infrastructure at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

The solution is quite stable. It doesn't crash or freeze. There aren't bugs or glitches.

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ND
CCIE, Sr. Network Engineer at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

No real issues with stability. It’s pretty stable. We can have a backup, and restoring is easy.

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MR
It specialist

We've had a good experience with the stability of this product. There are no bugs or glitches. It's reliable for the most part I don't recall it crashing or freezing. 

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FB
Network Operations Manager at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Until now, it has been stable in spite of some upgrades.

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AA
IT Support Team Leader at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

I have found Cisco Wireless to be stable.

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CR
System Engineer at a mining and metals company with 10,001+ employees
TN
IT Manager at a computer software company with 201-500 employees

The solution is stable.

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DH
Head of IT Network Division at Panorinformatika

The solution is stable. 

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YA
Network Engineer at Saudi Customs

This is a stable product.

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SS
Senior Technical Consultant at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

My impression as a re-seller is that the Cisco products are stable.

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it_user423258 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Admin at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The two controllers running side by side was extensively tested by die client: during production the primary controller was unplugged and within a few seconds the access points registered to the secondary controller. The client even went as far as unplugging various access points to test if the coverage hole detection worked, and was not disappointed. There was never a need to restart the controllers or any of the access points.

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it_user184644 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Network Engineer at a government with 501-1,000 employees

No issues so far.

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NM
Owner at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The stability or reliability is good. The performance is not that good.

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ZO
Marketing Officer at a wholesaler/distributor with 1,001-5,000 employees

Cisco stability is okay. We call support when we have downtime.

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IC
ICT Consultant at a tech services company with 11-50 employees
TX
IT at a manufacturing company with 201-500 employees

We've found the stability to be very reliable. It doesn't crash or freeze. There are no bugs or glitches. It's very good overall. 

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RR
Network and Security Team at a energy/utilities company with 201-500 employees

It's stable. Although we have had an issue but it's not related to Cisco technology. It's to do with the position of the access points. They move it and it's good. They don't like to see a box so they move it which is an issue. 

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EO
Integration Manager at Newcom

Cisco Wireless is stable.

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AM
Technical Operations Manager at a media company with 201-500 employees

Cisco Wireless is a stable solution.

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YS
Lead Presales at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

Cisco Wireless is highly stable.

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GV
ICT Diensthoofd - Head of ICT at a healthcare company with 501-1,000 employees

It's stable, but it's expensive.

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WL
Solution Manager, Network at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

After using it for eight years, I can vouch for its stability. There are no bugs or glitches. It doesn't crash or freeze. It's very reliable in terms of performance. 

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it_user172002 - PeerSpot reviewer
Specialist IT Consultant with 1,001-5,000 employees

No issues encountered.

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JO
Network Support Engineer at Nigeria LNG Limited

Cisco Wireless is a stable product.

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SP
ICT Infrastructure Architect at a energy/utilities company with 501-1,000 employees

It is very stable.

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VP
Senior Manager at a tech vendor with 11-50 employees

Cisco Wireless' stability is quite good as of now. The recent APs are coming with a backbone of up to 5 MBPS throughput, and that is quite okay.

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it_user172665 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Engineer with 51-200 employees

I have had very few issues with appliances or access points dropping off.

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AA
IT Manager at a tech vendor with 51-200 employees

It's stable. It's working fine. There are some issues regarding moving the equipment. Otherwise, every three months or so we have an AP that hangs and we just restart it, that's it. Otherwise, everything's working fine.

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JC
Principal Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

Cisco Wireless is stable.

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AD
Junior Network Engineer at Easy Systems

It is a stable solution.

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it_user572145 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager Corporate IT at a retailer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have not run into any issues related to stability.

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it_user504159 - PeerSpot reviewer
CEO at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

It has been a fairly stable network, I have not had many problems with it. We had to upgrade the iOS once or twice, but that's about it. After that, we have not really had a problem.

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it_user908133 - PeerSpot reviewer
Manager / IoT Evangelist Solution Business Strategy at a manufacturing company with 1-10 employees

In terms of performance, it's really good. I have never seen it go down, at least in the office environment. Deploying it in the factory may be our next use case. A lot of noise occurs in the factory, so it could be difficult to deploy a wireless solution there. That could be a challenge.

The factory environment requires more high-density capability and there are other challenges affecting the factory environment. It's a harsh environment, but I see that Cisco's user-case allows deployment in a factory environment.

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it_user170466 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Manager at a educational organization with 51-200 employees

No issues encountered.

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WW
DevOps System Engineer at Monash University

The solution is stable. 

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it_user524856 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Enginer with 1,001-5,000 employees

We have encountered issues with stability.

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it_user195360 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

I had to reboot the controller a couple of times to force correct EAP key exchange.

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it_user170043 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager of Network at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

None encountered.

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MP
Enterprise Architect at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

The technology of the product is excellent. The solution is very reliable and stable.

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PS
System Administrator at a manufacturing company with 10,001+ employees

It's a stable product.

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PK
Information Technology Executive

Stability-wise, this is a good solution and the majority of people in the industry prefer Cisco and Aruba devices.

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it_user172686 - PeerSpot reviewer
Network Administrator & Information at a media company with 501-1,000 employees

Until now they are very stable, but in some cases in which we had a problem there was a fix to solve the problem.

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AR
VP of IT at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

This is a stable product.

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MO
Technical Support Manager at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The stability is very good.

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Buyer's Guide
Cisco Wireless
April 2024
Learn what your peers think about Cisco Wireless. Get advice and tips from experienced pros sharing their opinions. Updated: April 2024.
768,740 professionals have used our research since 2012.