All of these innovations took what was developed years earlier and improved the network. In the middle part of the decade, AireOS products saw the introduction of Application Visibility and Control, Hyperlocation and Flexible Radio Assignments (FRA). From Radio Resource Management, providing for the first system-wide view of the RF network, to Cisco CleanAir, which detects and mitigates interference in the early part of the 2010s, AireOS products helped to make sure that Wi-Fi devices were able to send and receive packets reliably and cleanly. But back in the early part of the century, this was something that not many had seen before.ĭuring those years Cisco, and in particular the products that used the AireOS, lead the industry with a bevy of Wi-Fi innovations.

These numbers look very pedestrian now, the smallest controller in the Catalyst family, the 9800-L, supports up to 500 access points and 10Gbps. These new controllers made a huge impact on the industry as they offered support of 100 access points and less than 4Gbps of throughput. It was a pretty busy year, but if you were in the tech world back then, I’m sure you noticed the new family of wireless LAN controllers from Cisco, specifically the Cisco 4404 Wireless Controllers. Remember 2005? What were you doing then? Were you waiting a line for Microsoft’s recently released Xbox 360? Were you cheering for Tim Duncan and the San Antonio Spurs as they closed out the Detroit Pistons for the NBA Championship? German Chancellor Angela Merkel assumed office as the first female Chancellor of Germany.

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