SURFwireless: Wi-Fi as a Service
Your users want a fast Wi-Fi network that is available anytime and anywhere. Purchasing and maintaining such a network takes a lot of time and knowledge. SURFwireless offers Wi-Fi as a Service. This provides you with a reliable, high quality Wi-Fi 6 network, allowing you to move forward technically for years to come.
SURFwireless - wifi as a service
Wi-Fi available anytime and anywhere
Students, teachers, staff, researchers and visitors expect a Wi-Fi network that always works, is available everywhere and offers high speed. Providing such a network is complex. The Wi-Fi network needs to connect to more and more different types of mobile devices and users expect the latest wireless capabilities.
3 flavours
SURFwireless Managed
Your users want a fast Wi-Fi network that is available anytime and anywhere. Purchasing and maintaining such a network takes a lot of time and knowledge. SURFwireless offers Wi-Fi as a Service. This provides you with a reliable, high quality Wi-Fi6 network, allowing you to move forward technically for years to come.
Base rate:
- EUR 17.50 per month, per indoor access point
- EUR 25 per month, per outdoor access point
This includes the costs of hardware (replacements), personnel, licences, tendering, and 24x7 monitoring and maintenance. The rates are for a contract period of 5 years. The one-time costs per site are variable and based on the size of the site. These costs are quoted separately.
SURFwireless Do It Yourself
With this variant, SURF takes care of the purchase and implementation of the Wi-Fi environment. From delivery onwards, you will be at the controls and will take care of the maintenance and management of the environment, supported of course by the expertise of SURF.
Basic rate:
- EUR 14.50 per month, per indoor access point
- EUR 22 per month, per outdoor access point
These rates include the costs of hardware (replacements), licenses and tendering and apply for a contract period of five years. The one-time costs per site are variable and based on the size of the site. These costs are quoted separately.
SURFwireless Start
The SURFwireless team manage your existing Wi-Fi network while your new SURFwireless network is under construction. The rates are set per project.
Innovation within SURFwireless
We are continuously working on the (further) development of SURFwireless. We are looking into possible extensions of the service such as wifi calling, location-based services and private pre-shared key.
Connecting
To get connected to SURFwireless, we follow 5 steps:
- Kick-off
- Site survey
- Discuss design
- Installation
- Aftersurvey
Want to go through the steps in a little more detail? Then have a look at our handy info graph here. (in dutch)
For whom?
SURFwireless is available if your institution is connected to the SURF network. SURFwireless is purchased per building (location), so that your users do not experience problems with roaming.
More information
- Read more technical information about SURFwireless on our wiki
- Read more about the SURFwireless team