Hospitality & Leisure
WiFi built for Cruise Lines
- ✓Connectivity that works mid-ocean, not just in port
- ✓Guest, crew, and operations traffic kept separate
- ✓One console across every ship in the fleet
Trusted across hospitality & leisure
Cruise Lines by the numbers
Challenges & fixes
Backhaul depends entirely on satellite, and it's expensive and limited
Unlike a hotel with fiber to the building, a ship's entire internet connection rides on satellite bandwidth that's shared across thousands of guests and every operational system on board.
- ✓Satellite & Rural Backhaul is built around exactly this constraint
- ✓OpenX Gateway bandwidth policy prioritizes operational traffic over guest streaming
- ✓WiFi Analytics & Monetization justifies premium guest WiFi tiers to offset satellite cost
Fleet-wide consistency is hard when every ship is its own island
Each ship traditionally runs its own network setup, so a fix on one vessel doesn't carry over to the next, and headquarters has no fleet-wide view of what's actually happening onboard.
- ✓OpenX Cloud gives one multi-tenant view across the whole fleet
- ✓Zero-Touch Provisioning standardizes new-build and refit rollouts
- ✓Multi-Tenant / White-Label Controller separates guest, crew, and operations per ship
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.
Tools & resources
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