Trends and Opportunities
WBA OpenRoaming™ is a roaming federation service enabling an automatic and secure Wi-Fi experience globally. With WBA OpenRoaming™, we are creating an open connectivity framework for all organizations in the wireless ecosystem to power new opportunities in the 5G era.
WBA OpenRoaming™ transforms the Wi-Fi experience for consumers and businesses and ultimately opens up opportunities for broadband and the Internet of Things (IoT) connectivity across business verticals, including retail, hospitality, education, smart cities, automotive and aviation, among many others. Devices simply connect automatically and securely on to the WBA OpenRoaming™ network.
Business Benefits
OpenRoaming creates a federation of networks and identity providers to enable automatic roaming and user onboarding on Wi-Fi.
It enables simple, secure and scalable Wi-Fi connections amongst different organizations that are part of WBA OpenRoaming™.
Based on WBA’s Wireless Roaming Intermediary eXchange (WRIX) standards to scale and facilitate different business models under a harmonized framework.
Expected Deliverables
- Allow automatic and secure roaming between millions of networks, nationally and globally with secured interconnection and encrypted communications;
- Defines an automated roaming consortium codes framework (RCOI) to support policy provision on devices and networks. Organizations that manage a Wi-Fi CERTIFIED Passpoint®-enabled network may become part of the WBA OpenRoaming™ federation.
