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Venues

Venue WiFi for crowds, staff and every concession

Visitors on the captive portal and OpenRoaming, staff on certificates, and each concession and venue system on its own key and VLAN, kept apart from the crowd. SoFi Stadium, Meydenbauer Center, Vancouver International Airport and Kinetic Melbourne Airport run on Purple.

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  • SoFi Stadium
  • Vancouver International Airport
  • 80,000+ venues
  • 5 million+ hotspots worldwide
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Your three networks

Three SSIDs for venues

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

  • Network 1

    Open

    Visitors sign in through the captive portal, or connect automatically with OpenRoaming.

    The open network

  • Network 2

    Secure

    Staff on EAP-TLS with your MDM, revoked from the directory. Contractors get time-limited keys.

    The secure network

  • Network 3

    xPSK

    A key and VLAN per concession, plus keys for screens, tills and door controllers.

    The xPSK network

Concession WiFi with a key per tenantOpenRoaming for the crowd

Visibility and reporting

Every authentication across the venue, in one place

Accepts and rejects with the reason, by visitor, member of staff, concession and 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 anonymized.

Visibility and reporting

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Proof

Stadiums, convention centers and airports

SoFi Stadium, Meydenbauer Center, Vancouver International Airport and Kinetic Melbourne Airport run on Purple, and malls put every concession on its own key.

80,000+
venues run on Purple, in 90 countries
~2M
people onboarded every day
5 million+
OpenRoaming hotspots worldwide

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 venues

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FAQ

Common questions

Ask us something else

Does each concession need its own SSID?

No. Every concession shares one xPSK SSID with its own key and VLAN.

Do we need new access points in the venue?

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

One SSID for the crowd, a key for every concession

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.