OpenWiFi Release 3.0.0
Telecom Infra Project 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.
Features normally only present in commercial enterprise WLAN offerings are available in TIP OpenWiFi. These premium Wi-Fi features enable a number of market solutions for developers, integrators and operators to explore.
TIP OpenWiFi stack enables commercial integrations via cloud native open source services for management and network visibility combined with an open source AP firmware operating system tested nightly.
TIP OpenWiFi Continuous Integration quality testing runs nightly exercising thousands of Wi-Fi performance, conformance and feature unit tests.
Support for a broad range of device platforms with the ability for Community to contribute additional device support and or cloud features sets TIP OpenWiFi apart from all other open projects.
Joining TIP and the OpenWiFi project is both free and easy.
Learn more here: https://telecominfraproject.com/openwifi/
Getting Started
The most common use cases for TIP OpenWiFi are managed WLAN most often associated with premium enterprise Wi-Fi service offerings. TIP OpenWiFi presents these premium features over a number of deployment options.
TIP OpenWiFi devices have management and telemetry exposed via a single websocket to the OpenWiFi Gateway (OWGW) microservice. The OWGW is supported by database, message bus, and the OpenWiFi Security (OWSEC) microservice for northbound API integration. This represents the minimum to deploy TIP OpenWiFi.
This minimum set of services enables commercial vendor integration adding TIP OpenWiFi device support to existing Wi-Fi controllers.
Refer to the sections on SDK Installation and Overview for further information.
For additional value added services, TIP OpenWiFi also provides User Interface, Firmware Management, Provisioning and Analytics services. All services are independently deployed and integrated based on commercial adoption model.
See Developer Resources for API level information and Code Repositories for source code guidance.
High Level Features
Each OpenWiFi AP offers:
Multiple topologies including :
Local Breakout
Overlay including PPPoE, L2TP, L2oGRE
IEEE802.11s Mesh and Wireless Distribution System
Bridging, Virtual LAN, VxLAN, NAT Gateway
Multiple authentications including WPA, WPA2, WPA3, Enterprise Radius models, M-PSK
Passpoint R1 and R2 Mobile Offload
Encrypted Zero Touch Provisioning and Cloud Discovery
Autonomous RRM and Channel Control
Wi-Fi Agile Multiband
Multi-VAP including topology features per VAP
Dynamic Air Time Fairness
Over the air EDCH QoS, WMM QoS, 802.11-2016 Enterprise QoS
Captive Portal
Station and Network Telemetry
Cloud SDK in OpenWiFi offers:
Zero Touch Provisioning & Discovery
Integration Northbound Interface (NBI) RESTful
Data model driven OpenAPI design
Enterprise Message Bus data access
Cloud Native & Agnostic micro services
Gateway Southbound
Security Northbound
Firmware Management
Web User Interface
Provisioning
Analytics
OpenWiFi AP Detail List:
Wi-Fi 5 (ac) Wi-Fi 6 (ax) Wi-Fi 6E
Dual Bank Bootloader
Multi-SSID per Radio
SSID Authentications: WPA/WPA2/WPA3 - Mixed, Personal, Enterprise
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
ISP WAN Profiles ( PPPoE, L2TP, L2oGRE )
Embedded Captive Portal (Local Splash non-auth)
Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
Dynamic Airtime Fairness
Service Flow QoS
Wireline & Wireless Tracing (PCAP Cloud Remote Troubleshooting)
Health Check Reports
Local Provisioning over SSID (when Cloud or WAN down)
Multimedia Heuristics (Detection of Unified Communication Sessions)
SSID Rate Limiting
GPS Reporting
Autonomous RRM Client Steering
Client / AP / Network Metric Telemetry
Cloud SDK additional features
Provisioning
Device Identity (Model, MAC, Serial Number)
Device Software Upgrade
Multiple SSID Configuration
Bandwidth Rate Control per SSID
Multi-Radio 2.4/5/6GHz control
AP Network Mode Control (Bridge/NAT mode)
Security (WPA-Personal/WPA & WPA2/3 Personal Mixed/WPA & WPA2/3 Enterprise Mixed/WPA2/3 Personal/WPA2/3 Enterprise/WEP)
VLAN per SSID
VxLAN port configuration
NTP Enable/Disable
RTLS (Location Services) Enable/Disable
RF Control
IEEE802.11r Fast BSS Transition per Radio Control
IEEE802.11k RRM Radio Information per Radio Control
IEEE802.11v Network Assisted Roaming per Radio Control
RRM Location AP Channel (uChannel) Provisioning
RRM Location Client Steering (uSteer) Threshold Provisioning
Remote Troubleshooting and Service Assurance
Syslog
Health Check Reports
Remote DHCP, RADIUS, UE Network Analysis
Remote TTY 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.
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