About KLEY
Founded in 2014, KLEY has quickly established itself as France's leading private student residence operator, combining the roles of investor, owner and operator. Its promise: innovative, eco-conscious living spaces designed for today's students.
KLEY is the flagship student brand of the Boost Society group, which also operates two sister brands across the coliving and young-professional residence segments. Together, the group currently welcomes 8,200 colivers across 27 residences in France and 5 campuses in Spain. By 2030, Boost Society has set a clear public ambition: to host close to 20,000 students, young professionals and professionals across France and Europe, through its three brands. A growth roadmap that Wifirst supports step by step, under a framework agreement enabling deployments fully aligned with the group's construction pace.
The Challenge
High-performance WiFi for a hyper-connected audience
Students are among the most demanding audiences when it comes to connectivity: online classes, video calls, educational platforms, streaming — the WiFi network has to hold up against hundreds of simultaneous users, on multiple devices each. Wifirst answered this challenge by deploying a solution combining dedicated 1 Gbps FTTO fibre per residence and high-density managed WiFi, designed to deliver flawless service quality regardless of the load.
A bespoke deployment for complex projects
Since KLEY residences are typically delivered from new construction, Wifirst gets involved as early as the build phase, in direct coordination with KLEY and its partners. The network infrastructure is dimensioned before construction even starts, allowing WiFi coverage to be optimised by design — including in the most challenging configurations such as shared apartments. This approach also guarantees full alignment with KLEY's aesthetic standards: hidden cabling, discreet integration of active equipment in both common areas and bedrooms.
The Solution
Wifirst operates a homogeneous, industrialised infrastructure for KLEY, deployed residence after residence to a single, consistent technical standard:
- FTTO fibre into every unit, for symmetrical, guaranteed connectivity
- Latest-generation WiFi access points, for optimal coverage even under very high usage density
- Managed switches enabling centralised 24/7 supervision
- The Wifirst Center platform, giving KLEY a unified, real-time view of its entire connectivity estate
The Wifirst Center extranet allows KLEY to visualise the topology of every residence and the status of all network equipment in real time.
The Network & Usage in Numbers
Wifirst has been supporting KLEY since 2017. The partnership now covers one of the largest PBSA estates on the French market:
- 26 residences under Wifirst management in France
- 3,134 access points in production out of a total fleet of 3,173
- 255 switches structuring the wired backbone of every residence
- 28 dedicated FTTO fibre WAN links at 1 Gbps each
- 36.5 Gbps of aggregate download bandwidth across the group
- More than 4,000 simultaneously connected devices at peak hours across the estate
For the first quarter of the current year alone, the recorded traffic confirms the real intensity of usage: 34,694 connected devices per month on average, with a mix dominated by mobile phones (54.9%), followed by computers (43.9%). Data consumption reached 1.39 PB in January, 1.18 PB in February and 1.46 PB in March — more than 4 PB in the first quarter alone. The connected user base is 56.8% French-speaking, reflecting the international diversity of KLEY campuses.
A French partnership opening up to Europe
Boost Society's ambition — to grow from the 8,200 residents it welcomes today to nearly 20,000 by 2030 — changes the scale of the partnership. With a framework agreement in place and industrialised technical standards, Wifirst rolls out residence after residence, at the pace of the group's new openings and construction projects.
This ambition is already taking shape beyond French borders: the group's first Spanish sites are now being onboarded with Wifirst, marking the early milestones of a partnership designed to extend across Boost Society's full European footprint. With local teams in France and Spain, and a strengthened European reach through our Dutch sister company ITT (Netherlands, Germany), Wifirst has the people and technical resources to support pan-European PBSA operators with a single point of contact, harmonised standards, and country-by-country coordinated execution.
The Results
Today, the entire KLEY estate equipped by Wifirst in France benefits from a robust, 24/7 supervised connectivity infrastructure aligned with the highest standards of the segment. For KLEY and Boost Society, this uniform technical foundation is a major asset for the acceleration phase ahead: it shortens deployment times on every new site, ensures a consistent resident experience from one residence to the next, and allows the group to scale with a single partner at the pace of its European growth.
Beyond the current French scope, Wifirst is positioned as the natural connectivity partner for the group's European expansion — residence after residence, market after market — supporting the KLEY brand promise: providing students with modern, sustainable and seamlessly connected living spaces, wherever Boost Society opens its doors.
