In this post, I will lay out some of the deeper details of configuring the rXg as a WISPr provider, intending to cover both TP-Link's Omada Pro CBC and RUCKUS's vSZ.
This will be a particularly rXg-heavy post, so if you would like to follow along at home please check out our free rXg program, where you can download and install rXg on your own hardware.
Configuring a RUCKUS site to use WISPr with a RUCKUS vSZ is easy.
How to setup WISPr with Omada Pro Cloud Based Controller
WISPr ("Wireless internet service provider roaming") is a type of hotspot setup that is cheap to deploy because all the centralized tracking of usage, as well as command and control of infrastructure, can happen in one centralized system running in a private data center. The rXg can imiplement that centralized system.
One of the fun things I've gotten the chance to work on are WISPr sites. These are sites where a local device, usually an AP in my experience, but potentially a router or other captive portal system, puts network-joiners into a walled garden in which they can only access an External Portal Server. This server then works with the local infrastructure through some kind of controller intermediary to grant access based on purchases or any other factor it chooses.