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Avaya Wireless [EOL] vs Cisco Wireless comparison

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Categories and Ranking

Avaya Wireless [EOL]
Average Rating
3.0
Number of Reviews
2
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Cisco Wireless
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
5.2
Number of Reviews
154
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Wireless LAN (3rd)
 

Featured Reviews

DM
Chief of Engineering at a comms service provider with 11-50 employees
Reporting issues are slow and painful and it needs a controller
1. Avaya wireless was sold to Extreme three years ago with all LAN gears. 2. The advanced APs are working correctly. The low-end APs aren’t working correctly. After three months of troubleshooting and four patches, we ended up replacing the APs at our own expense. 3. Lesson learned: select a brand with a controller. Avaya claims that their AP with an embedded controller makes the central controller obsolete. With our controller, deployment is more difficult as roaming between AP relies on device thresholds. Android, iOS, Dell PC, Spectralink barcode readers all have different Decibel thresholds ranging from 72 DB to 104db. A controller watches mobile devices as they move and instruct the nonoptimal AP not to talk to the device.
EvansEsezobor - PeerSpot reviewer
Group IT Head at Euracare
Has enabled centralized user management and improved wireless access point aggregation
To improve Cisco Wireless, the ports on the access points are all 100 Meg, not 1 gig. We have not gotten a gigabyte interface of about 1,000, but the controller we have is just 1 gig. We would prefer if we could increase the controller to a 10 gig interface because we want to connect our controller to a 10 gig interface, which currently limits us to 1 gig. When we want to move higher capacity data via wireless, it limits us to 1 gig.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The WOS makes management and troubleshooting easier."
"The powerful radio is the most valuable feature."
"The product has good stability and deployment, and is easy to configure."
"Cisco Wireless improves mobility and flexibility. The only case we are working on is with hospitals, focusing on the mobility of doctors within the hospital. Everywhere, doctors need to be connected to the network, even within the operating theater, patient rooms, and even the basement, like the radiology department. As far as the solution goes, the coverage is usually very comprehensive."
"Cisco Wireless solutions are highly scalable."
"Stable and scalable with good technical support."
"We have been deploying in different companies and their wireless communication has improved."
"Technical support is great. One time, we had a controller issue due to a hardware failure and they replaced it within two days."
"Cisco Wireless is one of the more stable products so their products are scalable."
"Fantastic product for an indoor wireless solution."
"The most valuable features of Cisco Wireless are security and the ability to manage everything easily. Other solutions, such as Aruba are not as simple."
 

Cons

"The product is too expensive and does not provide small enterprises with any advantages."
"Avaya's APs were OEM with firmware provided by another firm. Reporting issues were slow and painful."
"Signal frequency can be problematic, especially when compared to other brands such as Aruba, HP, and Cisco."
"There are a couple of shortcomings in Cisco Wireless right now."
"There are some features I would like to have in Cisco Wireless, such as Telemetry and other IoT. However, they are available in the new version of the solution."
"There is a problem with the controller. When we have to restart the controller, it does not show the time."
"Its licensing has been very frustrating."
"Even though the tool offers a cloud-based central management option, the product needs to work on improving the security part a bit since it is an area of concern."
"The product could be improved with interference reduction. Because wireless frequency interferes with microwave or Bluetooth technologies, this causes issues. A lot of users still use legacy wireless adapters and black box and they do not experience the speed that they could get using the latest technologies. The number of devices on the market makes wireless communications complex. If the problem of interference could be resolved it would further improve utility and ease of system design."
"For all products on the market, the availability of the products may not be ideal."
"The cost model is expensive."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"This is an expensive product."
"Cisco is not a cheap solution. Their licensing cost is higher than that for others."
"I feel the product's pricing is a good value."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Cisco WiFi 1572 is very expensive locally and our budget for this year is used."
"The pricing is a bit high."
"It is expensive, and there are some costs in addition to the standard licensing fee. Its licensing model and cost should be improved."
"They have simplified the licensing, now there is a single license that is required. Earlier, multiple licenses were required. Single licensing is good. As a customer, I don't need to keep an inventory of multiple licenses."
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Comparison Review

it_user212721 - PeerSpot reviewer
President at a tech services company with 51-200 employees
Mar 24, 2015
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Manufacturing Company
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Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
8%
Construction Company
7%
 

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Small Business79
Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise74
 

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Also Known As

Wireless LAN 9100, Avaya WLAN
Cisco WLAN Controller
 

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