description: Telecom Infra Project Open WiFi

OpenWiFi

What is OpenWiFi?

TIP OpenWiFi is an open source community project that believes in democratizing premium Wi-Fi experiences for multiple market use cases. The TIP approach to OpenWiFi creates an open source disaggregated technology stack without any vendor lock in. OpenWiFi offers premium managed Wi-Fi features, local break-out design, cloud native open source controller, and an open source AP firmware operating system tested nightly.

TIP OpenWiFi is the industry's first CI/CD open source Wi-Fi eco-system. Built nightly with a strong community of Wi-Fi leaders, new features are unit tested in automated RF chambers and checked from cloud to ground for Wi-Fi performance and conformance.

High Level Features

Cloud SDK in OpenWiFi offers:

• Zero Touch Provisioning
• Firmware Management
• Integration Northbound Interface (NBI) RESTful
• Data model driven API
• Template based device provisioning with RADIUS profile management
• Advanced RF control with RRM

Each OpenWiFi AP offers:

• Multiple topologies including Bridging, Virtual LAN, NAT Gateway, Local Breakout, Overlay
• Multiple authentications WPA2, WPA3, Enterprise Radius models
• Passpoint® Release 2 and above
• Zero Touch Provisioning
• Captive Portal

OpenWiFi AP Detail List:

• Wi-Fi 4 (n) Wi-Fi 5 (ac) Wi-Fi 6 (ax)

• Dual Bank Bootloader

• Multi-SSID per Radio

• SSID Authentications: WPA/WPA2/WPA3 - Mixed, Personal, Enterprise

• Un-Authorized Device Control

• 802.1Q VLAN per SSID

• 802.1d Bridge Mode per SSID

• RADIUS Accounting, Interim-Accounting, NAS-IP, CUI

• Network Address Translation Gateway Mode Operation

• Network Time Protocol Client

• Management VLAN

• Wi-Fi 6 (ax) Specific

  • BSS Coloring
  • UL/DL OFDMA sub-carrier allocation
  • Channel Switch Announcement

• Wi-Fi General Features

  • WMM® - Wi-Fi Multi Media
  • UAPSD Procedures (Unscheduled Power Save)
  • Upstream/Downstream Queues & L3 DSCP
  • Over The Air QoS EDCH Procedures
  • WMM-Admission Control (AC)
  • WMM-Power Save (PS)
  • Wi-Fi Optimized Connectivity
  • (ai) Fast Initial Link Support
  • Wi-Fi Agile Multiband
  • (k) Client Radio Resource Management - Directed Steering
  • (v) Network Assisted Roaming
  • (r) Fast BSS Transition
  • Protected Management Frames (PMF)
  • (w) Management Frame Encryption
  • Channel Switch Announcement (CSA)
  • Dynamic Frequency Selection & Transmit Power Control (DFS/TPC)
  • Beacon Rate
  • Min Client Noise Immunity
  • Basic Rate Control
  • De-Auth RSSI Control
  • Burst Beacon Support
  • Per SSID Client Rate Limiting
  • Promiscuous Mode Support

• Additional TIP AP NOS Features

  • Embedded Captive Portal (Local Splash non-auth)
  • Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
  • Airtime Fairness
  • Wireline & Wireless Tracing (PCAP Cloud Remote Troubleshooting)
  • Synthetic Client (Cloud Remote Troubleshooting)
  • Flight Recorder (Stack Remote Collection)
  • Local Provisioning over SSID (when Cloud or WAN down)
  • Multimedia Heuristics (Detection of Unified Communication Sessions)
  • SSID Rate Limiting
  • Inter-AP Communication (Client - Session Signalling)
  • Client / AP / Network Metric Telemetry (MQTT)

Cloud SDK additional features

• Provisioning
  • Device Identity (Model, MAC, Serial Number)
  • AP Software Upgrade
  • Profile Provisioning Templates
  • Multiple SSID Configuration
  • Bandwidth Rate Control per SSID
  • Multi-Radio 2.4/5GHz control
  • AP Network Mode Control (Bridge/NAT mode)
  • Basic Captive Portal (Local Splash Page admin from Controller)
  • Security (WPA2/WPA3 Personal/Enterprise Mixed)
  • VLAN per SSID
  • NTP Enable/Disable
  • RTLS (Location Services) Enable/Disable
• RF Control
  • Wi-Fi Agile Multiband
  • (k) Client Radio Resource Management - Directed Steering
  • (v) Network Assisted Roaming
  • (r) Fast BSS Transition
  • RRM Location AP Channel Table Provisioning
  • RRM Location AP Cell Size Table Provisioning
  • RRM Location Client Steering Threshold Table Provisioning
• Remote Troubleshooting and Service Assurance
  • Syslog
  • Synthetic Client
  • Remote DHCP, RADIUS, UE Network Analysis
  • Remote Shell
  • Remote Packet Capture Analysis

How to contribute

If you or your company are interested in contributing to TIP Open Wi-Fi, please join the Wi-Fi Product Group by visiting Telecom Infra Project to become a member.