Keep your eduroam. Connect everyone and everything it was never built for.

eduroam looks after your staff and students. Purple adds what sits around it: sign-in with your university account, a private network for every room in halls and every device on campus, Passpoint and OpenRoaming for visitors, and guest WiFi for open days and conferences. On the access points you already own.

• Works alongside your eduroam and RADIUS
• Microsoft Entra ID and Google Workspace sign-in
• iPSK for every room in halls
• Passpoint and OpenRoaming

A typical university today

• Move-in week buries the service desk in tickets about consoles, TVs and printers that cannot join
• Lab equipment, AV and building systems sharing one pre-shared key that never changes
• Conference delegates and visiting speakers from outside eduroam queuing for a guest code
• Open-day families on an unbranded guest network, with nothing passed to student recruitment

With Purple

• Every room in halls gets its own iPSK Private Area Network, so devices work like they do at home
• Every device gets its own key and VLAN, revocable one at a time
• Visitors with a Passpoint or OpenRoaming profile connect automatically, with no sign-in page
• A branded sign-in with UK GDPR consent sends open-day sign-ups straight to your CRM

Identity-based WiFi on the account they already use

eduroam handles roaming. On your own campus, staff and students can sign in once with the account that runs their email and Teams. Purple syncs with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace, Okta and JumpCloud over SCIM, and group membership decides which VLAN and policy each person gets.

• Leavers lose access the moment their account is disabled in your directory
• Academics, professional services staff, students and contractors on separate VLANs with their own rules
• University-managed laptops get EAP-TLS certificates through Intune, Jamf, Kandji or Hexnode
• Entra ID Conditional Access honoured on every join, with no shared password anywhere

Every session is logged against a named person, device, time and location, so when your security team asks who was on the network, there is an answer.

An at-home experience in halls, with enterprise security

Students arrive with games consoles, smart TVs, speakers and printers that cannot do 802.1X. iPSK gives every student their own Private Area Network: their devices find each other, and nobody else’s can see them. The same keys put lab equipment, AV and building systems on their own VLANs across the campus.

• Each room or resident gets a private network bubble, isolated from every other
• Students fetch their own key through a self-service page, signed in with their university account
• Works under your vendor’s name: iPSK on Cisco, DPSK on Ruckus, MPSK on HPE Aruba and Juniper Mist, PPSK on Extreme and UniFi
• No per-device licence and no cap on devices per key, with MAC binding and one-at-a-time revocation

Roaming for everyone eduroam leaves out

eduroam only works for people whose institution belongs to it. Conference delegates, visiting industry partners, alumni and contractors usually do not. Passpoint and OpenRoaming connect them automatically and encrypted from the first moment, with no sign-in page, and Purple is an OpenRoaming identity provider for the Wireless Broadband Alliance.

• Profile-based Hotspot 2.0, encrypted from association, with no captive portal
• Your staff and students can roam to more than 5 million OpenRoaming hotspots worldwide
• Profiles are bound to identity, so connections survive iOS 18 MAC address rotation
• Runs on Passpoint-capable Cisco, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Fortinet, Extreme, Juniper Mist and Ubiquiti UniFi access points

Turn open days and conferences into named, consented contacts

Open days, applicant visit days, graduations, conferences, sports fixtures and summer lettings bring thousands of people on to campus who are not in eduroam. Purple gives them a branded sign-in moment that looks like your university, and gives your recruitment and events teams consented data they can act on.

• Branded captive portal with UK GDPR consent and a full audit trail
• Applicant and delegate sign-ups sent to HubSpot and your CRM through 400+ data connectors
• Purple Shield DNS content filtering on the guest network, IWF and Friendly WiFi certified
• Visitor numbers and dwell time by building for every open day and event

A quieter move-in week, and fewer tickets all year

At one US university, Purple’s iPSK replaced the move-in scramble with self-service private networks across 40 housing buildings. Students onboarded their own consoles and TVs, and the service desk saw 60% fewer tickets.

Figures from a Purple iPSK deployment across 40 housing buildings at a US university, and Purple platform data and service terms.

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• Works with Cisco Meraki, HPE Aruba, Ruckus, Juniper Mist, Ubiquiti UniFi, Cambium, Extreme and Fortinet
• Single sign-on with Microsoft Entra ID, Google Workspace and Okta
• ISO 27001 certified, UK GDPR compliant, RADIUS regions in the UK, EU and US