Campus WiFi that follows students from lecture hall to tram
Visitors on the portal, students and staff on certificates and Passpoint, and halls of residence and campus devices on xPSK. Murray State University signed a five-year deal for Purple PSK WiFi, the University of New Brunswick runs iPSK on Purple, and Newcastle's residents and 53,000+ students roam between campus, city and trams.
- Five-year Murray State deal
- University of New Brunswick on iPSK
- 53,000+ students
- 99.9% RADIUS uptime SLA
Your three networks
Three SSIDs for campuses
Identity decides the VLAN inside each network, so one SSID carries many groups.
Network 1
Open
Visitors, open days and conference guests sign in through the captive portal.Network 2
Secure
Staff on EAP-TLS with your MDM, students on Passpoint and OpenRoaming across campus and city.Network 3
xPSK
A private network per student in halls, and a key per lab device, screen and printer.
Passpoint and OpenRoaming for studentsPrivate networks in halls with xPSK
Visibility and reporting
Every authentication on campus, in one place
Accepts and rejects with the reason, by student, member of staff and device, across every building and hall of residence, streamed to your SIEM and ready for the auditor.
- One estate-wide query, no per-building exports.
- Microsoft Sentinel, Splunk, Elastic or Datadog over webhook or syslog.
- Occupancy and footfall by site, hour and day, with MAC addresses anonymised.
Proof
Universities run on it
- 5 years
- Murray State University's deal for Purple PSK WiFi
- ~1M
- students and residents on Purple community networks
- 53,000+
- students roaming between campus, city and trams in Newcastle
- 60%
- fewer helpdesk tickets at move-in, US university housing across 40 buildings
Add-on: Purple Shield
Add protective DNS with Purple Shield
Purple Shield bolts onto Access or runs standalone, with a DNS policy per VLAN and by time of day, so each group on your three networks gets the filtering that fits it. Page loads up to 500% faster and 20 to 40% less web traffic. Try it free for 30 days.
FAQ
Common questions
Can students roam off campus?
Yes. With OpenRoaming, the same profile connects across more than 5 million hotspots worldwide. In Newcastle, students roam between campus, city and trams.
Do we need new access points across campus?
No. Purple Access is a cloud overlay on the access points your campuses already run: Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet, and mixed estates are supported.
Where does eduroam fit?
Beside the three, as its own SSID. In education, eduroam makes it four. Open, secure and xPSK carry your visitors, staff, halls and devices, and eduroam keeps doing its roaming job.
How do students with no MDM get on?
They sign in once in the Purple app with their work or university account, Microsoft, Google or Okta, and a WiFi pass installs on the device. Windows, macOS, Linux, iOS and Android, with no MDM.
Map your campus to three SSIDs
Book a 45-minute design session and leave with the plan for your sites.
- Get your three-SSID plan in 45 minutesTell us what runs on your WiFi today, and a Purple network engineer maps it with you.
- Map your SSIDs onto threeOpen, secure and xPSK, on the access points you already own. You leave with the plan.
- Prove it on one site firstJudge the result on tickets and audit evidence, then roll out.
Your design session
45 minutes. Your estate. A plan you keep.
Led by a Purple network engineer. No slides. You keep the plan.