I have an apartment situaiton where the owner wants to have an SSID for each of 14 apartments plus general Office and Guest SSIDs. For example, SSIDs would be 501, 502, 503, etc.. Given that I would like both 2.4 and 5 GHz frequencies for each SSID, I would need 32 SSIDs.

As we know, you can have up to 16 SSIDs with a given site with 8 being on 2.4 GHz and 8 being on 5 GHz. My solution to bypass this limitation is to put 3 sites on the controller. Each site would have Office and Guest networks plus up to 6 apartment SSIDs. For example:

• Site 1
  • Office - VLAN 10
  • Guest - VLAN 20
  • 501 - VLAN 501
  • 502 - VLAN 502
  • 503 - VLAN 503
  • 504 - VLAN 504
  • 505 - VLAN 505
  • 506 - VLAN 506
• Site 2
  • Office - VLAN 10
  • Guest - VLAN 20
  • 507 - VLAN etc...
  • 508
  • 509
  • 510
  • 511
  • 512
• Site 3
  • Office - VLAN 10
  • Guest - VLAN 20
  • 513 - VLAN 513
  • 514 - VLAN 514

All apartment SSIDs would be on their own separated VLANs. Guest would be on the same VLAN across sites, but it's going to be isolated in any case. Each Site would have the VLANs set up identically for Office. If I am correct, this would allow traffic to flow from one Site's Office SSID to another and allow access to a wired printer across sites for any staff that happens to be floating around. Does that make sense and would that be correct? I do understand that MU-MIMO roaming between sites would NOT work. So, if you have Guest on your phone and you walk around the complex, when you move from an AP on one site to an AP on another site, there may be issues.

What do you think? Will this work as intended?