A service oriented provisioning architecture

When a user is detected in a network controlled by an Access Controller (AC) the AC instantly requests rules for this user. This pro-active way of working means that we can achieve seamless roaming, and a really comfortable and user friendly network - despite that every bit sent over the network is analyzed, traffic managed and approved.

The LDS receives these requests for service and makes an individual evaluation each time. This is how users in our networks can purchase multiple and diverse products during the same session. It also makes it possible to combine a free service with a paying service.

An example of this could be a hotel that offers free internet access to guests, but sell higher quality internet access to guests with specific quality requirements.

Complexity can kill any brilliant functionality

When we first made the system design back in 2001, we realized that many even senior system operators would find it complex close to impossible to define the rules necessary to achieve security and profitability. Specifically when the options and variables become to many.

We set-out to create a management concept that would make it possible for less experienced individuals to express and define their needs. Then we let the Rules Engine sort out the complexity that require a Ph.D. to fully understand.

There are three basic "things" that can "have" rules attached to them:

• Users - Just like you
• Connection points or more simple - hotspots or offices
• Devices - Free your PC and give it its own rules independent of you....

We also decided that many Connection Points together can create a "network" - we call it an Access Location. Any rules that apply to any of the above "things" are only valid in specified Access Locations - this way it is easy to define both WHAT a user can do, and WHERE he can do it - but also, sometimes more important, what he CANNOT do.

One Connection Point can be part of many Access locations. This is an important feature to be able to simulate real life situations where a place or a hotspot can be shared by many different networks or services.

What is the real life advantage?

The capability of defining and working with true product management instead of "on/off" one size fits all mentality create the extra revenue that hotspots need to survive. Our statistics show that in most hotspots, around 20-30% of all products are "non" standard, without AmazingPorts technology you may be loosing out on those sales.

It is also a way to entice new users to try services or cross sell a quality service to an existing customer.

In short this structure makes it possible for you to define and sell almost any imaginative access product to any user in any location....

• Really fast internet
• Really slow internet
• Free services - but limited priority
• Selective services - like "only VoIP from VoipLtd", or "only e-mail from e-mail.com"
• A yearly subscription
• A temporary broadband boost
• Priority to your favorite gaming server
• Only give access to people with green hair to the "dye-my-hair-now.com" web site.
• Cut a deal with local "Big Co" and sell them E-mail only access for their sales force.

Obviously you can price everything differently and according to your comprehension of what is "smart" pricing.

Please notice the unique capability of selling any combination of these services to any user.

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