3600 8 SSID Limit

[tpahuja]

Folks,

         Can someone please tell me why there is a limit of 8 SSIDs on the ac module of a 3600 series AP.

"Only the first 8 WLAN IDs are advertised on the 5-GHz radios regardless of the ID number"

[Jurgens L · Accepted solution]

It comes down to hardware limitation, the 802.11ac Radio Module for the 3600 series was the first 802.11ac (Wave1) solution Cisco provided before they released the 1700/2700/3700 series AP's that comes standard with these features building in.

This is normally the problem you have with a product that provides a new technology (at that time) released early into the market.

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[pieterh]

this is also by software design 

WLANS are sent out each with its own radio MAC address

each AP can send out max 16 WLAN's / SSIDs

each 2,4GHz SSID from base radio MAC address + WLAN index

each 5GHz SSID from from base radio MAC address + 16 - WLAN index

so technically you may be able to send out 16 ac (5GHz) SSID's, but processing power may pose extra limitations