Cisco Cisco Aironet 1260 Access Point

You can configure basic security settings in the Easy Setup > Radio Configuration section. You can 
use the options given in this section to create unique SSIDs and assign one of four security types to them.

You can create up to 16 SSIDs on the wireless device. The created SSIDs appear in the Current SSID 
List. On dual-radio wireless devices, the SSIDs that you create are enabled by default on both radio 
interfaces.

In Cisco IOS Release 12.4(23c)JA and 12.xxx, there is no default SSID. You must configure an 
SSID before client devices can associate to the access point.

The SSID can consist of up to 32 alphanumeric, case-sensitive, characters. 

The first character can not contain the following characters:

Exclamation point (!)

Pound sign (#)

Semicolon (;)

The following characters are invalid and cannot be used in an SSID:

Plus sign (+)

Right bracket (])

Front slash (/)

Quotation mark (")

Tab

Trailing spaces

If you use VLANs on your wireless LAN and assign SSIDs to VLANs, you can create multiple SSIDs 
using any of the four security settings on the Express Security page. However, if you do not use VLANs 
on your wireless LAN, the security options that you can assign to SSIDs are limited because on the 

VLAN

No VLAN

Security

No Security

Role in Radio Network (for each 
radio installed)

Access point

Optimize Radio Network for

Default

Aironet Extensions

Enable

Channel

Least-Congested (for 2.4GHz) and Dynamic Frequency Selection 
(for 5GHz)

Power

Maximum