Aptilo Carrier-Class Wi-Fi Solution Datasheet
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No one knows carrier Wi-Fi better than we do! Aptilo Carrier-Class Wi-Fi Solution Datasheet Partner Network Roaming OSS / BSS Integration Wi-Fi User Experience Hotel BYOD Home Wi-Fi Flexible APIs ServiceGlue Captive Portal Guest Internet Existing portals B2B Adaptors Policy OCS / Prepaid Prepaid / & OFCS / Billing Charging Charging PCRF Smart Advanced Wi-Fi Sub Office Wi-Fi CRM Lookups Configurable Database Other databases Logic Quota Mgmt EAP TLS Wi-Fi Policy DNS EAP TTLS EAP-SIM/AKA Public Wi-Fi HLR / HSS 3GPP AAA Wi-Fi AAA DHCP Diameter SS7 Trusted / Diameter RADIUS Untrusted RADIUS Local SOAP Access Gateway Adaptors (VSA) Break-out Mobile Core Integration Wi-Fi Service Control Small Cell Wi-Fi Wi-Fi Backhaul to mobile core through tunnels Gateway EAP-SIM/AKA non-SIM Carrier-Class Wi-Fi. Your challenge, our speciality The Aptilo Service Management Platform™ (SMP) With more than 90 service provider Wi-Fi customers in 60 coun- Aptilo offers a fast-track for launching Wi-Fi services with our tries under our belt, we understand that building a carrier-class optional pre-integrated functions for subscriber management, Wi-Fi service is a challenging task with a lot of considerations, prepaid & charging, web portals, access control as well as statis- • How to integrate with my existing OSS/BSS? tics and reporting; all optimized to work together on a single scal- • How to efficiently roll-out new sites? able system – the Aptilo Service Management Platform™ (SMP). • How to make Wi-Fi attractive to venue owners? What this means for you as a service provider is faster time-to- • Which business models should I use? market and happy subscribers with the best user experience avail- • Which Wi-Fi radio vendor should I select? able today. This list of daunting tasks goes on and on and becomes even The Aptilo Service Management Platform can easily adapt to your more complex in a mobile data offloading scenario, where inte- special needs, through the Aptilo ServiceGlue™ concept (see gration with the mobile core is required. below). Aptilo SMP works hand in hand with the Aptilo Service Since 2001, we have carefully built the Aptilo Service Manage- Portal™ (SPA) which provides monitoring, reporting and tailored ment Platform™ (SMP) into a strong weave. Each thread rep- statistics for different user groups through dedicated venue por- resents one of the thousands of demanding requirements we tals. have received from our service provider Wi-Fi customers. The user experience is controlled by the Aptilo Access Control- We play nicely with all carrier-class Wi-Fi vendors ler™ (AC) or third-party access gateways which securely commu- Aruba, Cisco, Ericsson and Ruckus are just a few examples of our nicate with the Aptilo SMP and oversees access and QoS control. Wi-Fi partners, all world-leading Wi-Fi vendors. Our system has Aptilo SMP works in concert with gateways from all leading ven- been adapted for and deployed with their products. dors including Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and Ericsson. Seamless Wi-Fi Offload Seamless Wi-Fi offload is the new mass-market business opportu- nity for mobile network operators (MNO) and service providers sell- ing Wi-Fi capacity to MNOs. Seamless carrier-class Wi-Fi cuts down on CAPEX and can significantly reduce the need for more licensed spec- trum. The keyword here is “Seamless”, 3G/4G users are automati- cally authenticated to the Wi-Fi network through SIM-authentication or through a client in the device. Aptilo SMP can act as a 3GPP AAA for automatic authentication of users through the SIM credentials (EAP-SIM/AKA). This specific functionality is also available as a stand-alone product - the Aptilo SIM Authentication Server™. Although EAP-SIM/AKA authentication is clientless in the sense that no app or other third-party client is needed, devices still need to support EAP-SIM/AKA. Today most leading smartphone operat- ing systems support EAP-SIM/AKA including Apple’s iOS, Android The Aptilo Service Managment Platform (SMP) is the core component of 4.0 or above, Blackberry, Nokia (Symbian) and Windows 8. This list Aptilo’s carrier-class Wi-Fi service management and delivery solution. It is rapidly growing over time. works in concert with the Aptilo Service Portal™ (reporting & statistics) and Aptilo Access Controller™ (access control & policy enforcement) or third- Learn more about Aptilo’s award-winning offload solution: party access gateways. • Aptilo Mobile Data Offloading Solution - Data Sheet • Seamless Wi-Fi Offload WHY?: A business opportunity today - White Paper Just add the Wi-Fi Network • Seamless Wi-Fi Offload How?: From vision to Reality - White Paper The pre-integrated Aptilo SMP has all functionality needed to build Monetize Wi-Fi by providing hotspot services a carrier-class Wi-Fi hotspot service. All you need to do is to add the Do you want to provide ad-hoc Wi-Fi services with online sign-up Wi-Fi network and integrate with your existing OSS/BSS systems. for users through Web-portals? Aptilo SMP was originally built for The AAA+ and Policy PCRF+ core in Aptilo SMP is responsible for these kinds of business models and features rich support for a vari- the important access control, policy management and charging for ety of payment options. Payments through credit card, vouchers, the carrier Wi-Fi service. This is a case where the whole is greater premium SMS, Scratch cards and more can be executed through than the sum of its parts, which is why we have added a “plus” to the native payment support in the Aptilo Web Portals Applica- the standard terms. These plus values include: tion or through integration with external portals and systems. • A unique tight integration between the policy and charging functions. • Advanced APIs. • Aptilo ServiceGlue™ – with an intelligent database interface and configur- able functions facilitating integration with existing systems. • Dynamic Account Engine. • 3rd party gateway adapters with support for vendor specific attributes. • Extensive native interfaces toward OSS/BSS and mobile core. • Session management. • RADIUS and Diameter support and translation between them. • Wholesale support and Intelligent roaming. • Policies for differentiated services including time schedules. Furthermore, the Aptilo SMP comes with a number of optional pre-integrated additional functions for Prepaid & Charging, Sub- In addition Aptilo SMP creates Call Detail Records (CDRs) for bill- scriber Management, Web Portals, Statistics & Reporting and ing and can minimize the number of CDRs which are necessary to Access Control, learn more in our Aptilo SMP datasheet. handle the billing of each user session. It can aggregate CDRs that are generated between the policy enforcement nodes and the bill- Just name the Wi-Fi business model you need ing/mediation systems. In over 90 carrier-class Wi-Fi deployments in 60 countries, we have been through all the Business models based on online sign-up can be a very effective business models there are including recur- way of attracting new subscribers to your service. Even if you have ring credit-card billing and exotic pay- decided to go for a subscription based model with SIM authenti- ment options such as prepaid through ATM cation you will need to have alternative authentication methods machines. No matter what business mod- for the subscribers’ devices that do not have EAP-SIM/AKA sup- els you need we are confident that we will port. The good news is that Aptilo SMP supports them all includ- be able to accommodate it. Let us give a few ing MAC-based authentication, WiSPr Client, One-time-password examples. through SMS, UserID / Password, EAP-TLS and EAP-TTLS. With Aptilo you can provide B2B Wi-Fi services such as: • Enterprise: Internet Guest Access and support for the Bring-Your-Own- Device (BYOD) concept for employees. • Hospitality / Healthcare: Free Internet Guest Access and / or chargea- ble Wi-Fi services, often integrated with property management systems (PMS) so the end-user is charged through the Hotel Bill. • Municipality: Wi-Fi services with separation of public and private use. • Wi-Fi services at crowded public places such as Stadiums and Airports where support for roaming is particularly important. Not only will you gain additional revenue from these B2B Wi-Fi ser- vices, you will also get an excellent base for site acquisition for your Wi-Fi network. Site acquisition is very different for Wi-Fi compared to 3G/4G net- works. In 3G/4G, the mobile operator buys space for their base sta- tions from venue owners. In Wi-Fi, the service provider often has to sell Wi-Fi services to the venue owners instead which may already have some kind of Wi-Fi service. There is a huge opportunity for service providers to replace the existing Wi-Fi with real carrier-class Wi-Fi services. Service providers can agree with venue owners to get an additional SSID as described above and instantly increase their Wi-Fi footprint. For mobile operators, this additional SSID can be 802.1x based for There is a need for multiple authentication methods to cover the wide vari- SIM Authentication and automatic offloading of 3G/4G users to ety of Wi-Fi devices that subscribers have today. Aptilo SMP supports all the Wi-Fi network. popular authentication methods and any combination of them. Many times The B2B support in Aptilo SMP is crucial for your Wi-Fi project as it the service provider needs to balance security with user experience. will help you in your site acquisition efforts and provide additional Shared Wi-Fi Access Utilizing Excess Capacity revenue. There is often excess capacity in Wholesale of Wi-Fi services your customers Internet connec- Selling Wi-Fi services to other service providers requires features tions, especially during daytime that have been developed in Aptilo SMP over a long period of time.