PacketFence integrated with the Anyfi Gateway

Malmö, Sweden and Montreal, Canada - October 27, 2014 - Anyfi Networks and Inverse Inc. today announced that they have successfully integrated Anyfi's Software-Defined Wireless Networking (SWDN) Gateway with PacketFence.

PacketFence is a fully supported, free and Open Source network access control (NAC) solution. Boasting an impressive feature set including a captive-portal for registration and remediation, centralized wired and wireless management, powerful guest management options, 802.1X support and layer-2 isolation of problematic devices, it can be used to effectively secure small networks to very large heterogeneous networks.

The Gateway is part of Anyfi's suite of SDN-based carrier Wi-Fi products enabling service providers and enterprises to build and manage large scale Wi-Fi networks with unprecedented security, flexibility and economies of scale. The Gateway, running as a virtual machine or on bare metal x86 hardware terminates Wi-Fi over IP tunnels coming in from ultra thin access points. These access points can be from multiple vendors, installed anywhere there is Internet access, or even carried around as a 3G hotspot. The SDWN architecture is unique in that the raw encrypted Wi-Fi traffic is always tunneled back to the Gateway, ensuring end-to-end security even if the access point is compromised, lost or stolen.

While the Anyfi Gateway represents an entirely new class of product to interoperate with PacketFence it connects on the same interfaces as a classic WLAN controller: RADIUS for AAA and Ethernet for payload data.

- It was a pleasure to work with Anyfi on this integration, and from our perspective it was very similar to what we've previously done with WLAN controllers from Aruba, Meru, Extricom and Ruckus, commented Ludovic Marcotte, CEO of Inverse.

The combined solution is compatible with any access point integrating Anyfi.net software. This software is already available on request from many leading residential gateway vendors and Anyfi is working with partners to make it a standard component in Wi-Fi routers and APs. For the impatient there's CarrierWrt, a third party firmware for many popular Wi-Fi routers that comes with Anyfi.net software pre-integrated.