Cisco Catalyst 9800 Series Wireless Controllers

Wi-Fi 6E is here and Cisco is leading efforts to make deployment and management of services and user experience on this high throughput, high capacity, broad spectrum network seamless.

As the sun sets on the AireOS controllers, #rememberingAireOS helps us remember and celebrate our journey thus far. We know that transitioning to a new OS can be scary, but we bet that any fear will be eclipsed by the excitement over the Cisco Catalyst 9800 Controller family.

During a recent Educause webinar, Cisco Architect Stephen Orr moderated a discussion of Cisco User Defined Network (UDN) between representatives from two universities who discussed deploying the solution at their schools and how it changed the way their students connect to the network.

Cisco AireOS controllers have served us well through many iterations of the Wi-Fi standard, from the early days of 802.11n, to 802.11ac waves 1 and 2 and now with 802.11ax or Wi-Fi 6 Cisco. But with the latest standard in place and the Cisco Catalyst Controllers paving the way, Cisco recently announced that their Wireless AireOS Controllers have gone End-of-Life.

Cisco is proud to announce the Cisco Catalyst 9105 Access Points, Cisco Catalyst 9800 controller functionality on the Catalyst 9000 Series Switches, and Application Hosting.

Cisco’s Remote Workforce Wireless Solution brings the corporate Wi Fi to remote workers. It provides secure and seamless wireless access experience to users and reduces the device pre-configuration efforts for Network Admins.

Cisco released the Embedded Wireless Controller (EWC) last year to a lot of fanfare and we are happy to report that Miercom, an independent, nonpartisan testing lab, has given us really high marks in their latest assessment.

The Cisco User Defined Network completely re-imagines the Shared Network, allowing both end-users and network admins a more controllable and secure experience

Cisco's Catalyst 9800 controller series introduced a high-value functionality: Deploy Anywhere. Catalyst 9800-CL controllers enable optimized network performance and centralized control of WLAN deployments with no associated hardware costs.