Introduction to ExtremeGuest

ExtremeGuest is a robust and comprehensive guest management and engagement solution that personalizes engagement by understanding customer behavior and interest, and then tailor services based on those insights. For example, knowing how many customers enter a store, how often they visit, and how much time they spend are all metrics that can be measured through ExtremeGuest. ExtremeGuest can take advantage of social networking behavior to increase patronage, expand brand exposure, and understand client demographics and preferences in a more comprehensive and personal way. Guest onboarding with sponsor approval is supported allowing a sponsor to approve or deny guest access with a single click.

ExtremeGuest is available as a virtual machine and provides centralized guest management, including multiple guest onboarding methods, and guest analytics. ExtremeGuest is supported both as a standalone application and in replica set mode. A typical ExtremeGuest replica set deployment consists of the ExtremeGuest platform running on three standalone virtual machine instances. Of these, two instances are full-nodes and the third instance is the arbiter.

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For information on various ExtremeWireless WiNG deployment scenarios, refer to the ExtremeGuest Server Deployment guide, available at https://extremenetworks.com/documentation.

For information on scale and hardware requirements for ExtremeGuest view the ExtremeGuest Datasheet.

For information on various ExtremeWireless WiNG deployment scenarios, refer to the ExtremeGuest Server Deployment guide.

ExtremeGuest was designed to be deployed into ExtremeWireless WiNG installations to collect guest analytics information from WiNG captive portal and enforce access control. Starting with this release, this support has been extended to ExtremeCloud Appliance managed networks and ExtremeControl managed wired networks.