Introducing Cisco’s next-generation CW9800 wireless controllers

Published on May 24, 2024 by Dave Benham

Cisco recognizes the importance of innovating for both cloud-based and on-premises customers. To support their on-premises customers, Cisco is introducing a new family of next-generation wireless controllers. The Cisco Catalyst CW9800M, CW9800H1 and CW9800H2 bring significant performance and efficiency gains over the previous generation of wireless controllers, while also reducing the form factor in the

Viewing Network Telemetry from the Catalyst 9800 with Grafana

Published on January 14, 2020January 29, 2023 by Dave Benham

In this guide, I’m going to cover the process of creating a Linux server to visualize a lot of the network telemetry (statistics) that the Cisco Catalyst 9800 offers. Network telemetry can include client statistics, access-point statistics, network statistics and controller statistics. All of these tools are open source, and free for personal use. The

Cisco Embedded Wireless Controller on Catalyst Access Points

Published on December 7, 2019January 29, 2023 by Dave Benham

Overview You may have noticed when the Catalyst 9100 Access Points were initially released, they didn’t support Mobility Express (AP as a controller) functionality. That’s because Cisco has been cooking up something much better. The Catalyst 9100 Access Points now support what Cisco is calling “Cisco Embedded Wireless Controller on Catalyst Access Points.” The name