People want to be connected. They want to, as much as possible and as free as possible. An increasing list of brands and chains offer free Wi-Fi in its stores. Starbucks and McDonald’s rolled out free Wi-Fi to nearly all of its restaurants across the USA and of course, Europe is only a hop away.
From Starbucks Vice President of Digital Ventures Adam Brotman, who revealed intimate details around the vision behind their SDN (Starbucks Digital Network), we learned that computer users spend about one hour per visit on Wi-Fi while mobile users stick around for 15 minutes per web session.
The experience goes beyond a great service to make your customers happy. With every HotSpot Station comes a uniquely branded homepage, which we can offer you as a member of EnforceIT, branded by Bartelbe. With every (free or paid) login at your HotSpot Station, your customers are embedded into your brand, which will be associated with the great service you are providing for them.
Where brands tend to provide free internet access to promote their services, providing hotspot internet access as a paid service is part of the business model for hotels and restaurant chains. Our HotSpot Access Station can nicely be configured to provide a free testing time (e.g. 10 minutes), before paying for the service. Also bandwith consumption limits can be set, to make sure every customer has the same experience. This is how you make sure to have no questions asked satisfied customers. When they decide that they like your service, they can pay directly through your specifically priced PayPal serviced ticketing service, which is included in our solution.
Everybody can access our HotSpot Access Station without the need to know or having to change their IP address. That is freedom indeed. You control the web pages your users can access without having to buy an access ticket. This is the absolute proof that their internet access works on their computer or wireless device before they pay for a ticket.
As a service to prevent a ticket from being consumed without surfing, the system will automatically log off a non-consuming user.
You can order your HotSpot Access Station starting from 440 EUR+BT as a do-it-yourself package or in serviced installlation with a branded homepage for 790 EUR+BTW at EnforceIT.be
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Public Internet Services
This Hotspot Station is suitable for any business or private Internet Access Service. It will easily operate in standalone situations as well as in Wide Area of Metro area sized infrastructure networks.
Seamless integration
All modules are based on international standard RFC’s and therefore flexibility and excellent cooperation in any network environment are guarantied.
Bandwidth manager
Data bandwidth management (classfull queueing) per IP / protocol / subnet / port / firewall mark; HTB, PCQ, RED, SFQ, byte limited queue, packet limited queue; hierarchical limitation, CIR, MIR, contention ratios, dynamic client rate equalizing (PCQ).
Again with the Bandwidth management module, the way’s to manage traffic are excellent. Not only bandwidth can be managed per subscriber, but also per protocol or service on the Internet. For example subscriber misuse via Bittorrent or Kazak can be put to a minimum or even stopped. On the other hand services like Voice or Video over IP can be given a fixed bandwidth and a higher priority. This guarantees real Quality of Service to (paying) subscribers on important services in the network, while not denying less important services (like the mentioned P2P activities) for other users.
Universal Address Translation
Zero effort connections for your customers, with no need to configure IP settings on the PC. The Universal Address Translation module will accept any fixed IP or DHCP setting on a connection. The HotSpot will keep track of custom IP settings on clients and translate the settings for your customer. Nothing needs to be explained, just connect, Log-in and start surfing the Internet.
HotSpot – AAA + Radius
The Hotspot Station has a build in AAA module, that can be operated and maintained as a standalone HotSpot. Accounts can be on basis of used time, used traffic and/or post paid subscriptions. All forms of accounting can be mixed with external Radius services.
Customized login pages can easily be made with any standard html editor.
With the Walled Garden you can give access to Internet sites without having to log-in. In the Walled Garden your future customers can “try-out” your HotSpot service. What better way to promote your HotSpot?
WinBox management
It’s Operating system supports controlled access to networks networks in a very flexible way. The Hotspot Station seamlessly integrades in multi vendor networks. All modules are RFC compliant and therefore the Hotspot Station guaranties flexibility and excellent cooperation in any network environment. To control the Hotspot Acces Point Station a Windows based System Management program is provided, WinBox. This program is a part of the system and comes free of charge with all Hotspot Station products.
The WinBox system management program enables you to manage the HotSpot from anywhere over the world. All is needed is an Internet connection.
WinBox connects over a secured tunnel to the Hotspot Station. In WinBox you will find that the Operating System can be configured in a very comfortable manner.
iXiT offers a broad range of carrier-class equipment for fibre optic connections, and simple media-conversion up till Metro Ethernet (aggregation/demarcation) services.