iPAD vs. WLC 5508, AIR-CAP3502I-A-K9s

[lcaruso]

Hi,

A client purchased Cisco infrastructure to primarily support Supervisors with iPADs. 
Now we find out iPADs cannot support APs that have multiple SSIDs assciated with one mac address. 

Autonomous APs can deal with this issue via

MBSSID - Multiple Basic Service Set Identifier
 The goals of MBSSID is to create unique beacon transmissions for  each BSSID allowing access points to appear to client devices to be  several distinct co-located AP’s or multiple-virtual AP’s. This allows  up to: 8 MBSSIDs per radio or 16 MBSSIDs per AP (in a dual-radio AP),  multiple multicast streams, support for existing clients with no  changes/impact on client devices

But the controller-based APs don't support MBSSID.

So what are we to do--tell them they can only have one WLAN otherwise their iPADs won't work?

Thanks.

[lcaruso]

Problem sovled. We were priming several APs in the server room while they were connected to a core switch. While this did not cause a problem for laptops, it did cause a problem with iPads until all but one AP was disabled.