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WiFi for coworking and flex workspace operators

A private network for every member, on one network across every location

Every member gets their own Private Area Network, every member company its own key and VLAN, and every day pass, visitor and event guest a branded sign-in kept well away from both. One platform, layered on the access points already in your buildings.

  • A Private Area Network per member
  • A key and VLAN per member company
  • Day passes, visitors and events
  • One login across every location
Members working on laptops at shared desks and in a glass-walled meeting room in a bright coworking space
Private Area Network liveLaptop, phone and headset in one bubble
Welcome back, PriyaReconnected automatically at your second location
Runs on the access points already in your buildingsCisco MerakiHPE ArubaRuckusJuniper MistUbiquiti UniFiCambiumExtremeFortinet
The gap

Members pay for a professional workspace. Many still get a shared password on a card.

Flex workspace sells companies an office without the fit-out. Their security teams still expect the network they would have run themselves, and hot-deskers expect it to work like home. Most spaces run one password for everyone, a router in each private office and a whiteboard for visitors. That gap shows up in four places.

A typical coworking space today

  • One WiFi password for every member, printed on the desk card and never changed
  • Private office residents plugging in their own routers to keep their equipment off the shared network
  • Day-pass guests and event attendees on the same network as resident members
  • Members at a second location asking reception for a different password

With Purple

  • Every member signs in once and gets their own Private Area Network, isolated from everyone else
  • Each member company gets its own key and VLAN, with its own firewall and bandwidth rules
  • Visitors, day passes and events get a branded captive portal on a separate network
  • Members reconnect automatically at every location in your portfolio
One platform, four networks

Members, companies, guests and every location, each on the right network

Four populations that usually mean four workarounds, run from a single pane of glass by your operations team.

Members

The at-home experience, with enterprise isolation

Purple creates a Private Area Network for each member when they sign in with their membership credentials or single sign-on. Their phone, laptop and wireless headset can find each other, and stay invisible to the hot-desker at the next table, on one network with 802.1X and WPA3-Enterprise security intact.

  • Members onboard a phone or laptop in about 60 seconds with the Purple app
  • Devices without a browser join the member's bubble with a private iPSK passcode
  • mDNS reflection keeps AirPlay and screen sharing inside each member's bubble
  • Access ends when the membership ends, with no shared password to change

A Private Area Network is created per person at sign-in rather than per desk, so it works the same for a hot-desker on Monday and a dedicated-desk member on Friday.

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A member working on a laptop at a hot desk in a coworking space, phone and headset beside themPrivate Area Networks
Member companies and the building

A private office network, without a router in every office

A ten-person team in a private office wants its laptops, printer and meeting room screen on a network of its own. xPSK gives each member company its own key with its own VLAN, firewall, bandwidth and role on your shared infrastructure, and gives door controllers, booking panels and cameras keys of their own.

  • Works under your vendor's name: iPSK on Cisco, DPSK on Ruckus, MPSK on HPE Aruba and Juniper Mist, PPSK on Extreme and UniFi
  • Revoke one company's key when it moves out, with no effect on any other tenant
  • MAC binding ties a device key to the first device that uses it
  • No per-device license and no cap on devices per key, licensed per access point and per venue
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A small team in a glass-walled private office in a coworking building, with a printer and a meeting room screenxPSK
Day passes, visitors and events

Every day pass and event guest online, and on your list

Day-pass members, meeting room guests, interview candidates and the crowd at Thursday's community event all need WiFi, and none of them belong on a member network. Purple gives them a branded captive portal, entirely separate from members and companies. Real estate developer Holladay Properties ran a branded splash page to promote its Songwriting Series and delivered 10K impressions over the campaign.

  • Branded captive portal with CCPA/CPRA consent and a full audit trail
  • Consented sign-ups sent to your CRM through 400+ data connectors
  • Paid WiFi for premium access, and surveys after events and day passes
  • DNS content filtering on the guest network
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Attendees with phones and drinks at an evening community event in a coworking spaceDay passes
Multi-site memberships

One membership, every location, no second password

Members with access across your portfolio should not have to sign in again in every city. With Passpoint, a member's device carries a profile bound to their identity, so it joins an encrypted network at any of your locations without a captive portal, and you manage every site from one dashboard.

  • Authenticate once, then reconnect automatically at every affiliated location
  • Encrypted from association, with no captive portal for members
  • Profiles are bound to identity, so they survive iOS 18 MAC address rotation
  • Occupancy by day and hour for each location, exportable for your operations team
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A member arriving at a second coworking location with a laptop bag, phone already connectedPasspoint
One fabric, not a router per office

What it takes to run it with shared passwords, and what it takes with Purple

The network a member company would build for itself, delivered as one managed service across every building.

What you need
Shared passwords and routers
With Purple
Member networks
One password for every member, visible on every desk
A Private Area Network per member on one network
Private offices
A router per office, configured and replaced by hand
A key and VLAN per member company, revocable on its own
Joiners and leavers
Change the password, then tell every member
Access ends when the membership ends, for that member alone
Day passes and events
A guest password on the whiteboard
A branded captive portal with CCPA/CPRA consent, on its own network
RADIUS
Servers to buy, host, patch and back up
Cloud RADIUS with a 99.9% uptime SLA, nothing on site
Hardware
Tied to one vendor's access control license
Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi and more
A coworking community manager and an operations lead reviewing a network dashboard in a quiet lounge
Built for flex workspace operators

Enterprise-grade networks for members, without a network team in every building

Community and operations teams look after everything from meeting room bookings to the coffee machine. Purple takes network access off their list, so a new member is online before they have found a desk.

60s
to onboard a member's phone or laptop with the Purple app
80%
fewer IT tickets with identity-based WiFi
99.9%
RADIUS uptime SLA, with UK, EU and US regions
0
data breaches since 2012. ISO 27001 certified.

Figures from Purple platform data and service terms.

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How it works

Live without new hardware

  1. 1

    Connect your members

    Link membership credentials or single sign-on, and set up keys for each member company.

  2. 2

    Point your access points at Purple

    We configure the member, company, guest and building networks on the access points you already own.

  3. 3

    Roll out site by site

    Switch on one location at a time with our onboarding team, and members reconnect automatically as each one goes live.

Pricing

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See your spaces on one network platform

Tell us about your locations and membership mix, and we will show you how member, company, guest and building access would work on your hardware.

  • Works with Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet
  • A Private Area Network per member and a key per member company
  • ISO 27001 certified, CCPA/CPRA compliant, US RADIUS region

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Coworking WiFi questions, answered

What operators and IT teams ask us most

Do we need to replace our access points?

No. Purple layers on top of the access points you already own, including Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet. There is no on-premise RADIUS server to install.

Can a member company have its own network inside our building?

Yes. With xPSK each member company gets its own key with its own VLAN, firewall, bandwidth and role, so its laptops and printer see each other and nobody else. When the company moves out, you revoke that key without affecting any other tenant.

How do hot-deskers keep their devices private?

Each member gets a Private Area Network when they sign in. Their devices can find each other, and mDNS reflection keeps AirPlay and screen sharing inside that bubble, so they never see another member's laptop or headset.

How do day passes, visitors and events connect?

Through a branded captive portal on a separate guest network, with CCPA/CPRA consent and a full audit trail. Sign-ups can go to your CRM through 400+ data connectors, and DNS content filtering is available on the guest network.

Do members have to sign in again at our other locations?

No. Members authenticate once and reconnect automatically at every affiliated location. With Passpoint, their device carries a profile bound to their identity, so it joins an encrypted network without a captive portal.

What happens when a member leaves?

Their access ends when their membership ends, and their devices drop off the network. There is no shared password to change and no effect on any other member.

Where is member data held?

Purple has RADIUS regions in the US, EU and UK, is ISO 27001 certified and CCPA/CPRA compliant, and has had zero data breaches since 2012.

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