Residential / MDU
WiFi built for Student Housing / Dorms
- ✓Network capacity built for dozens of devices per room
- ✓Move-in week ready without overwhelming IT
- ✓Segmented access between residents, staff, and guests
Trusted across residential / mdu
Student Housing / Dorms by the numbers
Challenges & fixes
Move-in week brings a usage spike no other week comes close to
Every resident arrives within the same few days, each setting up multiple devices at once, creating a login and bandwidth spike that a network sized for steady-state usage can't absorb.
- ✓OpenX Cloud capacity monitoring flags move-in strain across every building
- ✓AAA/RADIUS-as-a-Service absorbs the login spike without manual account creation
- ✓Zero-Touch Provisioning stands up temporary capacity for the surge
Gaming consoles and streaming devices weren't part of the original network plan
Today's students bring far more connected devices than dorm networks were originally designed around, and gaming consoles in particular strain networks built years before they existed.
- ✓OpenX Gateway bandwidth policy keeps usage fair per resident
- ✓OpenX AAA segments resident, staff, and IoT device traffic
- ✓OpenX Cloud gives operators visibility across every dorm building
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 WiFi is the OpenWiFi-based access point firmware behind every Wifi-Soft deployment — Wifi-Soft doesn't manufacture access points. Instead, OpenX WiFi runs on a growing list of supported ODM hardware, so you pick the AP that fits your budget and site instead of being locked into one vendor's box, all managed centrally through OpenX Gateway or OpenX Cloud.
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