TIP Open Wi-Fi is an open source community project that believes in democratizing premium Wi-Fi experiences for multiple market use cases. The TIP approach to Open Wi-Fi creates an open source disaggregated technology stack without any vendor lock in. Open Wi-Fi 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 Open Wi-Fi 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.

High Level Features

Cloud SDK in Open Wi-Fi offers:

Zero Touch Provisioning
Firmware Management
Integration Northbound Interface (NBI) RESTful
Data model driven API
Template based device provisioning with RADIUS profile management
Advanced RF control with RRM

Each Open Wi-Fi AP offers:

Multiple topologies including Bridging, Virtual LAN, NAT Gateway, Local Breakout, Overlay
Multiple authentications including WPA, WPA2, WPA3, Enterprise Radius models
Passpoint R1 and R2 Mobile Offload
Zero Touch Provisioning
Captive Portal

Open Wi-Fi 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
Un-Authorized Device Control
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
IEEE 802.11 General Features
- Beacon Rate
- IEEE 802.11h DFS & TPC
- Min Client Noise Immunity
- Basic Rate Control
- De-Auth RSSI Control
- Burst Beacon Support
- Per SSID Client Rate Limiting
- Promiscuous Mode Support
- 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
- IEEE 802.11h Channel Switch Announcement (CSA)
- IEEE 802.11h Dynamic Frequency Selection & Transmit Power Control (DFS/TPC)
Additional TIP AP NOS Features
- Embedded Captive Portal (Local Splash non-auth)
- Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP)
- Airtime Fairness
- Wireline & Wireless Tracing (PCAP Cloud Remote Troubleshooting)
- Synthetic Client (Cloud Remote Troubleshooting)
- Flight Recorder (Stack Remote Collection)
- Local Provisioning over SSID (when Cloud or WAN down)
- Multimedia Heuristics (Detection of Unified Communication Sessions)
- SSID Rate Limiting
- Inter-AP Communication (Client - Session Signalling)
- Client / AP / Network Metric Telemetry (MQTT)

Cloud SDK additional features

Provisioning
- Device Identity (Model, MAC, Serial Number)
- AP Software Upgrade
- Profile Provisioning Templates
- Multiple SSID Configuration
- Bandwidth Rate Control per SSID
- Multi-Radio 2.4/5GHz control
- AP Network Mode Control (Bridge/NAT mode)
- Basic Captive Portal (Local Splash Page admin from Controller)
- Security (WPA-Personal/WPA & WPA2/3 Personal Mixed/WPA & WPA2/3 Enterprise Mixed/WPA2/3 Personal/WPA2/3 Enterprise/WEP)
- VLAN per SSID
- 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 Table Provisioning
- RRM Location AP Cell Size Table Provisioning
- RRM Location Client Steering Threshold Table Provisioning
Remote Troubleshooting and Service Assurance
- Syslog
- Synthetic Client
  - Remote DHCP, RADIUS, UE Network Analysis
- Remote 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.