Hamina Wireless + Cisco: A Smarter Way to Design, Deliver and Monitor Cisco Wi-Fi Networks

As a pre-sales engineer or network specialist working with Cisco solutions, time and precision are everything. Hamina Wireless streamlines every stage of Cisco wireless design, from planning and quoting to visualization and reporting. Hamina's AI-powered design workflows, combined with native integrations for Cisco Catalyst and Meraki, help you move faster, collaborate better, and deliver designs that just work.

New Integration: Cisco 9800 + Hybrid Cloud Monitoring

Cisco’s Catalyst 9800 controllers can now be monitored in Meraki Dashboard using hybrid cloud monitoring. Hamina taps directly into that capability: if a 9800 controller is linked to Meraki, Hamina treats it like a Meraki network and can instantly import your floor plans, APs and live configuration. That means:

• No more manually recreating Cisco deployments in your planning tool. Eliminate hours of duplicate work by automatically syncing network maps, AP placements, and configurations into your design tool with one click.  
• Start your Hamina design with real data. With AP locations, channel settings, and TX power levels pulled directly from your Catalyst-managed network, you can make accurate planning decisions based on the real-world state of your deployment.  
• Visualize current coverage with predictive heatmaps and optimize it instantly. Hamina lets you assess the performance of your existing Cisco deployment visually, identify gaps, test roaming and simulate changes before making them live.  

Use case: Planning a Wi-Fi 7 upgrade? Import your current 9800 deployment, simulate new Cisco 9172/9176/9178 (or any model of Cisco AP) placements, and instantly generate a before-and-after comparison to justify your proposal.

Import, Export, and Automate: Cisco Meraki and Catalyst Center

Design faster and eliminate redundant work:

• Import from Cisco Meraki. Use the Meraki API to instantly bring in your network topology, including floor plans, AP placements, and live settings, into Hamina. This means faster onboarding for existing environments and fewer manual errors.  
• Export to Cisco Meraki. Once your design is ready, push your project back into the Meraki Dashboard. It syncs map images, AP locations, and details, allowing deployment teams to act immediately without guesswork.  
• Export to Cisco Catalyst Center (DNA Center). Generate a deployment-ready file that can be imported into Catalyst Center to eliminate duplication. Your Hamina design becomes your deployment baseline, reducing friction between design and implementation.  

This integration ecosystem reduces handoff overhead, accelerates rollout timelines, and keeps all your Cisco tools in sync.

Bill of Materials in Minutes

Every Hamina project tracks exactly which Cisco APs and antennas you’ve used. That means you can:

• Generate a ready-to-quote BoM instantly. Hamina automatically tallies your selected AP models and antenna types as you design, so you can export a bill of materials the moment you're done.  
• Swap models and update pricing scenarios on the fly. Test different Cisco AP models, like switching from a Catalyst 9120 to a 9176, and instantly see how that impacts budget, coverage, and deployment complexity.  
• Export BoMs and installer reports that align exactly with your Hamina design. Because the BoM reflects your actual predictive plan, there’s no discrepancy between what’s proposed and what’s installed.  

Perfect for proposals, RFPs, and planning or design meetings where speed, clarity, and precision are essential. No more T-Shirt size (Small, Medium, Large) guesses, use accurate predictions to gain buyer confidence.

Real-Time Collaboration and Sharing

Hamina is built in the cloud, so you can:

• Share a project with your Cisco team, client, or partner using just a link. Everyone can view or edit the design without installing software or requesting file access.  
• Collaborate in real-time with colleagues and Cisco SEs. Multiple engineers can work on the same project simultaneously, speeding up review cycles and improving team agility.  
• Annotate the map with notes for installers or reviewers. Leave guidance, context, or installation tips directly on the floor plan, cutting down on miscommunication during deployment and avoiding costly mistakes. 

By moving collaboration into a live, visual environment, Hamina eliminates back-and-forth emails, slide decks, and version control issues.

Design Confidence with Real-World Calibration

To further increase design accuracy, Hamina integrates seamlessly with the Oscium Nomad for site surveying:

• Measure wall attenuation directly in the environment. The Nomad allows you to calibrate walls based on actual RF loss, so your predictive model reflects the true propagation environment. 
• Enhance precision in AP placement and quantity. Better accuracy means more confidence that what you plan is what you actually need, reducing risk of over- or under-design. 
• Align Live View with physical reality. When paired with Hamina’s Live View for Meraki-managed networks, calibrated environments give you a truer picture of client performance and behavior. 
• Troubleshoot based on data, not assumptions. Accurate wall values and real RF measurements make every predictive heatmap and live view more actionable and trustworthy. 
• Capture effects of reflection, refraction, and scattering. These complex RF behaviors are difficult to simulate manually, but with real-world survey data from the Nomad, they’re inherently accounted for, giving you a much higher-fidelity design output. 

Use the Nomad to bridge the gap between planning and reality, empowering both design and operations with high-fidelity data.

Cisco Webinar Recap: Wi-Fi 7 with Hamina and Catalyst 9800

In April 2025, Cisco hosted a webinar with Hamina to demo how quickly teams can design Wi-Fi 7 networks using Hamina with Catalyst 9800s in Meraki monitor mode.

Key highlights:

• Rapid import of live Cisco networks.
• Planning new Cisco Wi-Fi 7 APs.
• Syncing design back to Meraki.
• Massive time savings in real projects.

The session featured:

• Maren Kostede (Cisco) 
• Jiri Brejcha (Cisco) 
• Dan Jones (Hamina Wireless) 

If you missed it, check out the recording: 

Webinar Recoding: Wi-Fi 7: The Future of Wireless Networks with Cisco & Hamina Wireless-20250410 1300-1
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