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OpenWiFI Stack
The TIP OpenWiFi SDK and the AP network operating system (AP NOS) firmware serves many use cases. With TIP OpenWiFi, the entire 'stack' from the SDK to the firmware can be consumed—lowering the cost of entry and time to market of a new entrant.
Ensuring lock in is not present is not enough for a mass market solution. It is also necessary to provide customer choice in the cloud whether that customer is the operator or an end user.
Cloud or On-prem
As operators of many sizes, service and network complexities require more Open Source options in their production environments, TIP OpenWiFi presents the opportunity to deploy managed Wi-Fi services either from the cloud or on premises.
Security
In the TIP OpenWiFi solution, all devices may be registered to any TIP OpenWiFi cloud. This is achieved using a unique certificate per device and a first boot process that discovers the serving cloud for the device. TIP works with Digicert, the industry leader in digital security signing infrastructure to ensure a globally redundant and available registrar for TIP OpenWiFi members. The presence of these unique device trust certificates enables a variety of advanced Zero Touch features beyond discovery including device provisioning, mesh, and wireless distribution link onboarding and more.
Quality and Development—Continually
The OpenWiFi team implemented a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) development pipeline that integrated feature development with continuous builds. Recognizing a large factor for operators is the break-fix cycle common in network vendors, OpenWiFi continuous builds are automated into a Quality Assurance (QA) pipeline.
At this time, 1,500 nightly tests exercise sanity for all builds of AP NOS and the cloud SDK across the majority of OpenWiFi hardware portfolio.
