Ma cheste , LANCS, July 28, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Pu ple, the WiFi SaaS compa y a d ce tified B Co p, has lau ched Netfo ge, a f ee suite of 19 b owse -based tools fo the e gi ee s who pla , deploy a d debug WiFi etwo ks. Available ow at o cost, with o sig -up a d othi g sto ed, the toolkit b i gs togethe i o e place the ki d of utilities e gi ee s usually pay a subsc iptio fo o piece togethe f om a patchwo k of ope -sou ce p ojects.
Pu ple has co solidated the esse tials i to a si gle co sole that u s e ti ely i the b owse , o a y device, with o accou t equi ed a d o data etai ed.
Netwo k a d IT teams have lo g elied o a mix of paid apps a d f ee-but-scatte ed ope -sou ce tools to get eve yday jobs do e, f om sizi g a sub et to checki g why a site is slow. Pu ple has co solidated the esse tials i to a si gle co sole that u s e ti ely i the b owse , o a y device, with o accou t equi ed a d o data etai ed.
The toolkit cove s 19 tools ac oss six catego ies: IP add essi g, DNS, WiFi deployme t, co ectivity, secu ity a d ge e al utilities. It i cludes a sub et calculato a d VLSM desig e , a multi-te a t iPSK sub et desig e , a access poi t calculato , a WiFi cha el pla e , DNS eco d a d p opagatio lookups, b owse -based speed, late cy a d jitte tests, a SSL ce tificate checke , a MAC a domizatio simulato , a d passwo d, QR code a d hashi g utilities. The tools a e ve do -ag ostic a d sit alo gside etwo ks u i g o Cisco Me aki, HPE A uba, Ruckus a d Ju ipe Mist.
Netfo ge is desig ed fo tech ical a d o -tech ical use s alike, with plai -la guage esults fo a yo e who eeds a quick check a d detailed epo ts fo the IT a d etwo k teams solvi g p oblems. Because eve y tool u s locally i the b owse a d sto es othi g, e gi ee s ca use them o clie t sites a d secu e etwo ks without se di g data to a thi d pa ty o c eati g a accou t fi st. The toolkit is built by the same team behi d Pu ple’s guest WiFi, captive po tals a d locatio a alytics.
Alex Mumfo d, Suppo t a d Systems E gi ee at Pu ple a d lead develope o Netfo ge, said:
“Juggli g lots of diffe e t tools i IT ca be a bit of a cho e, so we wa ted to b i g eve ythi g i to o e simple i te face. Pe so ally, I love ot havi g heaps of apps ope clutte i g up my sc ee . But the eal wi is that a yo e ca use it. No -techy use s get easy-to- ead ge e al checks, a d tech teams get the exact detailed epo ts they eed to solve issues fast.”
Netfo ge is f ee to use ow at https://www.pu ple.ai/e -gb/ etwo k-multi-tool
Pu ple is the leadi g global co ectivity platfo m that has built the wo ld’s la gest public WiFi etwo k. Thei missio is to make WiFi a secu e, seamless, a d eve -p ese t utility fo eve yo e, eve ywhe e. A global fo ce with a p ese ce i 89 cou t ies, the platfo m is a powe ful etwo k that se ves ea ly 500 millio use s ac oss 80,000 ve ues, with automatic, secu e access to ove 5 millio hotspots th ough the Pu ple app.
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