Cisco Spaces vs. Purple

Cisco Spaces is a cloud platform that connects people & things with spaces to transform buildings into smart spaces. Using the power of Cisco devices as sensors (Catalyst, Meraki, Webex) and the Spaces ecosystem, the platform aims to make buildings safe, smart, sustainable, and seamless. Cisco Spaces harnesses the power of Cisco hardware and sensors (Catalyst, Meraki, Webex) making buildings safe, smart and sustainable with seamless people experiences.

Purple improves the way people connect in the real world. Our identity-based platform runs guest, staff, and multi-tenant WiFi from one place, integrating with the network infrastructure you already have. Guests log in once and become known customers, giving you first-party data you can act on to deepen loyalty and drive revenue. Staff get passwordless, zero trust access that provisions in seconds and revokes automatically when someone leaves, with no shared passwords or MAC whitelisting. Residents and students get their own private network bubble rather than a shared connection.