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Public sector

City-wide WiFi at no cost to the council

Newcastle City Council runs the world's first city-wide OpenRoaming network on Purple, at £0 cost to the council, used by 1,000 SMEs, with residents and students roaming between campus, city and trams. OpenRoaming is free through the Connect licence.

Get your three-SSID plan in 45 minutesCount your SSIDs in the planner
  • World's first city-wide OpenRoaming network
  • £0 cost to Newcastle City Council
  • 1,000 SMEs
  • ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus
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Your three networks

Three SSIDs for the public sector

Identity decides the VLAN inside each network, so one SSID carries many groups.

  • Network 1

    Open

    Residents and visitors sign in through the captive portal, or roam on OpenRoaming.

    The open network

  • Network 2

    Secure

    Council staff on EAP-TLS with your MDM, revoked from the directory.

    The secure network

  • Network 3

    xPSK

    A key per council device, sensor, screen and CCTV camera.

    The xPSK network

City-wide OpenRoaming with Passpoint

Visibility and reporting

Every authentication across council sites, in one place

Accepts and rejects with the reason, by resident, member of staff and council device, 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.

Visibility and reporting

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Proof

Newcastle, the world's first city-wide OpenRoaming network

1st
city-wide OpenRoaming network in the world
£0
cost to Newcastle City Council
1,000
SMEs on the city network
53,000+
students roaming between campus, city and trams

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.

Content filtering for the public sector

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FAQ

Common questions

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What evidence do we get for assurance?

Every accept and reject is logged with its reason and streamed to your SIEM, as evidence for ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials controls. Purple holds ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus.

Do we need new access points across council sites?

No. Purple Access is a cloud overlay on the access points your sites already run: Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet, and mixed estates are supported.

Map your public WiFi

Book a 45-minute design session and leave with the plan for your sites.

  1. Get your three-SSID plan in 45 minutesTell us what runs on your WiFi today, and a Purple network engineer maps it with you.
  2. Map your SSIDs onto threeOpen, secure and xPSK, on the access points you already own. You leave with the plan.
  3. 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.