Purple Access guides
Guides for the people who run the network
Practical guides to captive portals, guest sign-in, staff WiFi, RADIUS and identity-based access, written for the people who run the network and answer for it.
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These guides sit under the main Purple guides, which cover each subject from end to end across the whole platform.
The guest WiFi guide
The hub for everything guest WiFi: sign-in, data, security and analytics.
The captive portal guide
How captive portals work, how to design one and how to run it at scale.
The multi-tenant WiFi guide
Shared networks for offices, residential buildings and mixed-use sites.
The enterprise WiFi security guide
Identity-based access, 802.1X, RADIUS and segmentation for enterprise networks.
The WiFi analytics guide
Reading, reporting and acting on the data your WiFi network produces across every site.
Turn this guide into a plan for your estate
Tell us about your sites and the hardware you run. A Purple engineer maps Purple Access on top of it with you, and you keep the plan.
- 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.