Suddenly all my iOS devoices refuse to connect to all my known good networks

Weeks ago I upgraded my iPhone, iPad and iPad Mini to iOS7 (and the subsequent updates). All was well. This morning all three devices refuse to connect to both of my known good WiFi networks (known good because everything else connected to them is fine).
The symptom: Settings:, Wi-Fi: I select my network and the 'grey ball' starts to spin. But... it never makes a connection. The grey ball spins forever, never making a connection nor reporting an error. Both networks are totally seperate Airport Express devices. In pursuit of this problem I have completely reset and reconfigured one of them, no solution.
Attempted so far: Network Reset on all three devices. Nothing. Reboots on all three, nothing. A hard reset, nothing. A total delete and restore of the iPad both via iTunes 11.1 and standalone, nothing.
All three devices can make cellular connections just fine.
I am really running out of ideas here - any pointers would be most welcome.

Ok, after a very energetic and impressive response from Apple I found the answer - thank you Apple.
Reboot the Router! Yes... it did'nt make sense to me. Something to do with DHCP leases, the Aiprports use DHCP assigned IP addresses that are issued by the router. Rebooting the Router forced the leases to renew, and bingo, problem solved. If I have the problem again I may put the Airports on fixed IP addresses to see if the issue goes away.

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