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PIApoint.mso enables
Wireless Broadband Services
for MSOs
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Feature Overview
User Authentication Methods
The Wiology solution PIApoint.mso supports many different options for the user authentication, authorization and access control . The overall goal is make your customers live easy and provide different access methods depending on individual needs. The available options include:
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RADIUS with email / password - typically these are your high-speed modem customers and they authenticate with the same email address and password as they check their email at home
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Subscriptions - this could be wireless only subscriptions that are not high-speed modem customers (monthly, yearly)
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Prepaid accounts - any visitor or non-subscriber is able to gain access by prepaid vouchers that you can offer at any retail store, hotel reception or similar
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ePayment - Easy online signup via PayPal or Credit Card without physical interaction or buying prepaid cards
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Group Account – 1 username / password combination for an entire group, very convenient and easy for convention visitors, seminars or similar
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Free Access - offer you customers
Site & Zone Definition
A site is an individual location where the
MSO is offering wireless broadband service. This can be a hotel,
convention center, marina etc. and each site is supported by either a
single wireless access point, multiple access point of even a wireless
mesh network. The backbone connection is supported with a single
or multiple cable modems.
One or many sites can be grouped into zones in order to easier administer different available features, such as prices, authentication methods etc. It also helps to enable partners to offer their own provider or franchised offering, e.g. local coffee shop or retail store with multiple locations.
The cable operator has has the capability to define many different zones either within one Head-end or even over multiple Head-ends. The operator can allow or deny hotspot roaming in between the different sites and zones.
Individual Login & Welcome Page - per site or zone
PIApoint.mso enables
the MSO to present the user with an individual login page for
each zone or even site. This login page can be easily customized
(graphics, logo, text, colors). More complex requirements can be
fulfilled as well with the definition of any customized website as the
login page.
After his successful authentication the user can be presented with any website as his welcome page. This could be the zones home page, your operators home page, franchise partner, specific regional information or similar.
Roaming
PIApoint.mso enable 3 different types of roaming for the MSO.
Inter Zone
Intra MSO
Global - 3rd party
The MSO has full control about the allowed authentication types in each zone. The roaming features enhance the reach of the authentication above and beyond the individual zone.
The Inter Zone roaming defines the ability to use the same authentication mechanism in multiple zones within the same Head-end.
The Intra MSO roaming allows the MSO to support roaming from one Head-end to the other with the same user credentials.
The 3rd party feature allows the MSO to engage in roaming agreements with global operators such as T-Mobile, iPass, Trustive.
PIApoint Standard Features
All PIApoint standard features are obviously also still available in the MSO and Head-end and provide all advanced functionality for a commercial Wi-Fi deployment. These features include:
Full VPN support (IPsec, OpenVPN, PPTP)
SSL encryption
Stateful Inspection Firewall
Walled Garden
Automatic session time-out
Bandwidth limitations
Web-based administration interface
Remote administration with ssh and HTTP
Fixed IP support
Multi-language support for standard login pages
(English, Spanish, Italian, French, German)Integrated DHCP Server, NAT, DNS proxy per Head-end
Optimal PDA support
No complicated client software or configuration is required. The setup and user authentication process is secure, simple and without technical complications or handicaps
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