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Avaya Wireless [EOL] vs Cisco Wireless comparison

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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 (2nd)
 

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 product has good stability and deployment, and is easy to configure."
"The WOS makes management and troubleshooting easier."
"The powerful radio is the most valuable feature."
"Fantastic product for an indoor wireless solution."
"Cisco wireless is a pretty good product."
"The product enables mobility and centralized control."
"If you have a large company and you have enough money, you should implement Cisco because it's the best solution."
"For the most part, it's worked well for us."
"The most valuable feature of Cisco Wireless is the bridging capability."
"The deep knowledge of Cisco is its most valuable aspect, and the Wireless Cisco solution has been in development for many years, which gives users trust in the solution."
"It has helped to provide mobility with committed throughput and performance, and Cisco wireless solutions are very stable, which with their rugged nature has helped overall efficiencies in information processing and daily operations while enhancing enterprise security and providing single-pane visibility for network monitoring."
 

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 performance issues, particularly with video calls where throughput is not great."
"Its licensing model and cost should be improved."
"This is a good product but some basic configurations were missed such as the bind configuration between a physical port and an IP address and health check for the authentication/authorization server."
"Many wireless controllers' firmware have bugs in their new releases, which are not stable, especially in an environment with many wireless AP (WAP) types."
"There should be an option for a wireless bridge that can be used to join two access points."
"The technical support could be better. They aren't as helpful as they need to be when we run into issues."
"If needs to provide more visibility. It can detect and do it, but as technicians we don't have a lot of visibility into seeing exactly what's happening. It doesn't give us a lot of log information for us to troubleshoot. They probably have additional software you need to purchase to get that kind of information. But I think not all companies can afford additional software to see those kinds of details. So if the wireless controller already had, built-in, those types of things for the technician or wireless engineer, it would be more attractive for the end-user."
"Requires a firewall body to improve security."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"The price of Cisco Wireless equipment is expensive."
"I think it's affordable. Maybe there are little differences, but it's not very expensive. But with all Cisco products, you have to pay more for the power supply. You'll have to pay for the PoE converter."
"Cost is one of the reasons why we are switching to Aruba. Aruba is significantly lower than Cisco in price. We do the licensing on a three-year basis. Cisco makes licensing very difficult."
"The price of Cisco Wireless is in the high range compared to other solutions. The solution could be less expensive."
"The pricing is okay. I believe it is competitively priced. But it is not just the price by itself, it's the price and the technical features. The features also play a big role. It has to give me the relevant output."
"The pricing is reasonable."
"Its licensing is hard to understand."
"Pricing is a little higher for Cisco Wireless than all other vendors. Cisco should work on improving the pricing because there are some other vendors out there in the market which may have the same features or equivalent features that Cisco has at a lesser price."
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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
9%
Comms Service Provider
6%
 

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Midsize Enterprise40
Large Enterprise74
 

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Also Known As

Wireless LAN 9100, Avaya WLAN
Cisco WLAN Controller
 

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