Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points

These APs are really well suited for medium to large enterprise organization as the management of these devices are through a single management console.

Well, it's really suited everywhere. I mean, gas station has it, offices have it, refineries. Every business department is going to use wireless one way or the other. So it's really useful in many aspect of the business. As far as not where not to use it, I can't really think of any because I mean wireless is everybody's daily life. I mean, you have your cell phone and people don't want to use their data so they get on WIFI.

Well suited in the sense that we use wireless on wheels devices a lot, having devices to monitor the patient's room to room. So this is a very useful, actually, it helps us to transmit the data through the wireless infrastructure. And I don't see, it's less because the WIFI is everywhere, it's very vital part of our life, so I can't say any shortcoming, so it's less useful

It's good for new builds. If you have a new building or new area by itself, it would be great for that. It's not so great, which we've run into this. If you try to mix it with older model or different model APs that are running a different protocol, WIFI protocol, they call it the salt and pepper deployment. You'll have clients and devices that are roaming between the two different model APs and it's really not good for connectivity, so I wouldn't really recommend it. If you're not going to replace all the APs in a specific area with the 9100, then I wouldn't recommend it for that.

They are great in small to large deployments. They may be a bit overkill (the 9166's specifically) for home offices though. I would say that they should be used for deployments that are 2000sq ft or larger/ more than 30 active clients at a time.

I think in a large campus wide deployment they have been effective in providing coverage to 5000+ users at a given time within the same. I haven't personally seen other types of scenarios based on companies current direction of expansion.

Quickly deployable to fill in gaps or dead zones. Easy to install.
Signal strength/and coverage easily impeded by certain material types that can make you use more than expected in certain environments.

The outdoor models work great. The indoor are not that suitable for the classroom ceiling.

Well suited for open spaces. Not as well suited for closed/concrete areas.

We use Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points in IT and OT networks. Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points is reliable. With Cisco ISE, the security is not the issue. Some Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points work in extreme environments and they work as expected. Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points are really easy to mount. The problems that we have are in locations where there are a lot of other WiFi networks and end user is far from Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points and there.

They are perfect for indoor areas with high density requirements. They have some issues in outdoor environments.

Within healthcare buildings, they’re great for coverage and ease of use for the customer.

Deployment across healthcare locations where mission critical wireless connectivity is required with inherent security applied. The ability to ensure each environment is covered with either internal or external antenna models, which helps with ensuring that such areas as clinical clean environments can have dedicated wireless without compromising levels of cleanliness.

It's well suited for the places where you want secure and seamless connectivity.
It's not appropriate if you have low bandwidth internet connection.

I would recommend Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points to everyone, we find the best in class. We understand the gaps but still these are the most stable solutions on the market. We are missing flexibility on Meraki APs.- sniffing, packet capturing, debugging. Catalyst 9800-cl controller support in Meraki Dashboard would be great, hope Cisco will do it soon!

Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points are well suited for most applications as they scale very well and can be configured to work in a lot of different scenarios. However they are quite costly so they may not be suited for all business purposes. But they do perform and deliver and rarely cause issues.

They are suited for every scenario since they come with a variety of antenna configurations and form factors and also outdoor solutions.

Quick to deploy, reliable

Beautiful design or sometimes might be too large. High density areas.

Good for medium to large environments. Provide plenty of features.

We are deploying Cisco Access Points in a lot of office areas and in production. Production areas depending on industrial machines it is difficult to deploy and need some special antenna design. Less appropriate for temporary deployments. For stadions and high-density deployment, we recommend Cisco as well. We have good experience with Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points.

Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points are well suited for outdoor use.

Cisco Catalyst 9100 Access Points has great reliability.