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The recent Wi-Fi explosion is best embodied in the image of a mobile professional sitting in a café, checking email with a steaming cup of latte sitting nearby. With the promise of un-tethered access over screamingly fast broadband connections, small to mid-sized Wi-Fi “Hotspots” seem to be popping up everywhere. Small and mid-sized businesses implementing a hotspot service have several important requirements including Total Cost of Ownership, ease-of-use and reliability.
 Colubris Networks features a “Hotspot in a Box” solution that greatly simplifies deployment while minimizing the capital and operational outlays needed to provide a robust Hotspot service. A variety of hotspot service access models, including credit card payment, are supported through integration with either the embedded custom web portal or through a 3rd party provider offering back-end services that include captive portal, authentication and billing.
The Colubris WLAN features:
- Multi-service Virtual Access Point (AP) support for multi-user, multi-service environments with the ability to migrate from legacy to next generation Wi-Fi standards, all in a single, shared Wi-Fi network.
- Standards-based Wireless Multimedia Enhancement (WME) and Spectralink Voice Protocol (SVP) support for high-quality Voice-over-Wi-Fi communications.
- An open architecture that protects existing investments via standards-based integration with any Wi-Fi client, the wired LAN/WAN infrastructure, established security policies and back-end management systems.
- Comprehensive RF, WLAN, VPN and client access control security enforced at the edge of the WLAN network - ensuring only trusted WLAN users gain entry to the wired LAN.
- Capacity when and where it is needed – there are no centralized WLAN switches to create single points of failure or performance bottlenecks.
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