Not sure if Cisco has anything like this but Aruba has vlan pooling which allows multiple vlans to be assigned to the same SSID and the algorithm will assign clients to each vlan based on that. That works well if you want to continue to broadcast the same ssid over all of campus. Not sure if Cisco does anything similar.
We have multiple profiles here (per building) all using the same ssid but depending on what AP you associate to you will get assigned that profile which has the vlan assignment. Scott Irey Network & Telecom Systems Engineer Oakland University Office: 248.370.2808 Mobile: 248.505.9827 -----Original Message----- From: The EDUCAUSE Wireless Issues Constituent Group Listserv [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of reflect ocean Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 1:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [WIRELESS-LAN] WLAN Deployment-High number of users Hi I run a medium-sized wifi network.We are cisco shop (autonommous access points).Recently wifi users number have reached limits we didn't expect.Because of that,we had to adjust our subnet network in order to support more users associated to the only SSID our wireless network use. I've been looking for alternative to create another ssid and associate it to another different subnet but I can't find any related to. Our wireless lan is currently reaching 1000 users or so.I'm not very confortable with the idea of having such number of users in wireless subnet. We have deployed around 60 cisco autonomous acess points throughout the campus and this subnet is firewalled and routed in our core switch which is a hope away to accessing Internet.It's very simple design. What would be a recommended deployment in this case with a growing number of users? Would deploying lwap bring any advantage to this design? We want to keep a single ssid and mobility for wireless users. Would mesh network bring any benefit? Thank you ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
