During a festival on the civic plaza, RF utilization still has headroom, but an AP refuses new associations and CPU is pegged. What does this indicate?
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Short Explanation
Sometimes the radio still has runway but the AP's brain is full—CPU or association caps slam the gate. That is a platform scale limit, not pure RF saturation.
Full Explanation
Access points have finite CPU, memory, and association tables independent of remaining airtime. When utilization metrics show RF headroom yet associations fail and CPU is exhausted, architecture and AP density or model limits are the bottleneck. DFS, CCI, or PoE class are separate issues and do not explain this symptom pattern by default.