What Is an SSID?
A Service Set IDentifier (SSID) is the name assigned to a wireless network. Wireless clients must use this same, case-sensitive SSID to communicate to the SonicPoint. The SSID consists of a text string up to 32 bytes long. Multiple SonicPoints on a network can use the same SSIDs. You can configure up to 8 unique SSIDs on SonicPoints and assign different configuration settings to each SSID.
SonicPoints broadcast a beacon (announcements of availability of a wireless network) for every SSID configured. By default, the SSID is included within the beacon so that wireless clients can see the wireless networks. The option to suppress the SSID within the beacon is provided on a per-SSID (for example, per-VAP or per-AP) basis to help conceal the presence of a wireless network, while still allowing clients to connect by manually specifying the SSID.
These settings can be assigned to each VAP: