OpenWiFi Release 2.5 GA
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. 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.
OpenWiFi 2.0 introduces management and telemetry based on uCentral offering expanded selection of managed devices including smaller APs and PoE access switches.
High Level Features
Each OpenWiFi AP offers:
Multiple topologies including :
Bridging, Virtual LAN, VxLAN, NAT Gateway, Local Breakout, Overlay (PPPoE, L2oGRE, L2TP), Mesh, WDS
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
Captive Portal & ExpressWiFi
Each OpenWiFi PoE Switch offers:
IEEE802.1Q Virtual LAN
VxLAN
DHCP Snooping & Relay
Multicast
PoE
IEEE802.1x Access Control
Cloud SDK in OpenWiFi offers:
Zero Touch Provisioning
Firmware Management
Integration Northbound Interface (NBI) RESTful
Data model driven API
Enterprise Message Bus data access
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
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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