Retail & Commercial
WiFi built for Big Box Retail
- ✓Coverage across a massive single-floor footprint
- ✓Inventory and POS systems kept separate from guest WiFi
- ✓Consistent setup across every store in the chain
Trusted across retail & commercial
Big Box Retail by the numbers
Challenges & fixes
A single sprawling floor plan creates dead zones far from the entrance
Big-box stores are essentially one giant open floor, and a WiFi plan designed around the entrance leaves the back of the store and stockroom with unreliable coverage.
- ✓Zero-Touch Provisioning adds coverage across the full footprint fast
- ✓OpenX Cloud flags weak-signal zones from real usage data
- ✓Access Points cover both sales floor and stockroom consistently
Inventory scanners and POS can't be exposed to guest network issues
Handheld scanners, POS terminals, and guest WiFi sharing infrastructure means a guest surge during a sale can slow down the systems staff need to actually run the store.
- ✓OpenX AAA separates operational and guest device traffic
- ✓OpenX Gateway prioritizes POS and inventory systems automatically
- ✓OpenX Switch give PoE stability to fixed scanning and POS stations
Our solutions
OpenX Cloud is an open wireless cloud controller for Enterprise, SMB, and MDU deployments, built on an open technology stack (OpenWiFi cloud SDK and AP NOS). It runs on low-cost, low-compute AP hardware from any supported ODM — no hardware vendor lock-in — with full WiFi 6/6E support and backward compatibility for WiFi 4/5. Deploy on AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, or your own data center, as SaaS or a licensed platform.
OpenX Gateway is the controller underneath Wifi-Soft's guest and staff networks — hotspot management and AAA authentication in one place, whether you run one site or a few hundred.
OpenX Switch is built on OpenLAN Switching (OLS) — the Telecom Infra Project initiative that extends OpenWiFi's cloud-native, disaggregated management model to wired switches. Wifi-Soft doesn't manufacture switches: OpenX Switch runs on supported white-box switch hardware with a modern, SONiC-compatible network OS, so your switching layer stays as vendor-neutral as your WiFi already is.
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