The Aptilo wireless service management platform for public WiFi networks is a multiservice architecture for wireless service management that effectively handles data and voice service delivery across multiple devices while enabling creation of new revenue-generating value-added services and supporting future network scalability in a unified platform.

Aptilo’s feature-rich, comprehensive WiFi service management solution encompasses authentication, authorization, accounting (AAA), portal management, service monitoring, security, statistics and customer care accessible through diverse paid and unpaid sign-up models, including support for Guest Internet Access.

The Aptilo Service Management Platform™ is the core component of Aptilo’s multiservice public WiFi wireless service management and delivery solution. The Aptilo Service Portal™, the main tool for automatic processing and display of data, reporting and statistics and is used together with the Aptilo Access Controller™ which securely communicates with the service platforms and oversees access and QoS control for Aptilo’s solutions.

Although Aptilo’s public WiFi wireless service management platform is optimized to work with the Aptilo Access Controller™ it also works with 3rd party access controllers or gateways (such as those from Cisco) or a combination of access controllers from Aptilo and other vendors.

The Aptilo wireless service management platform is specifically designed for wireless networks with initial deployments of a few thousand users scaling to support networks of hundreds of thousands of users to give service providers a flexible, cost effective approach to deliver and meet their time to market and time to revenue objectives.

Aptilo’s flexible multiservice architecture works with diverse network topologies and supports easy integration to existing user repositories and corporate systems. For service providers who want the benefits of a more cost-efficient, rapid time to market solution for wireless service management and delivery, the unique “turn key” Aptilo Managed Service™ helps avoid time consuming technical and operational issues so they can be up and running in a matter of days starting to generate revenue.

• A highly flexible and versatile authentication, authorization, accounting (AAA) and policy management solution
  • Provides support for pre- and post data and voice services. Highly secure access is controlled through temporary accounts created using integration with customer loyalty programs, purchase of an access pass or billable automatically via a cellular service charge.
  • Allows creation of a customizable user experience including login, service and portals pages based on location or personalized based on user identity, while still supporting unified login and authorization regardless of location or if roaming.
• Robust wireless service management with integrated data and voice solution support supports largest set of end user authentication and payment options
  • Quickly implement diverse unpaid, pre- and post paid payment and authentication options from User ID and Password, credit card payments, global roaming provider support (including iPASS and Boingo), billing providers (such as WorldPay and Verisign), pre-paid vouchers, scratch cards, cash cards and payment through cell phone accounts enabling a multitude of service offerings and requiring minimal additional integration.
• Field-proven, technically superior products delivered by “provider of choice” with a track record of success
  • Aptilo’s wireless service management platforms have been certified by leading service providers and carriers and regional communications service providers such as Cablevision, Qware, Saudi Telecom, Telecom Malaysia, Telecom New Zealand, Telenor and US Internet and are being used to seamlessly manage wireless access at venues including the Copenhagen Airport, the city of Taipei, Taiwan (the world’s largest metropolitan wireless deployment), Hilton Scandic, Starbucks, NASA and Proctor & Gamble.
• Comprehensive reporting and statistics tracking tools in the Aptilo Service Portal™ store, process and present data on service usage such as subscriber sessions, payment history, concurrent sessions and bandwidth usage
  • Gain an instant overview of service performance and business progress and manage revenue sharing settlement
• Unprecedented scalability and reliability to easily increase capacity by adding load-sharing traffic servers and a load balancer to efficiently distribute traffic
  • Configure the platform in a multiple redundant hot-standby mode, supporting automatic database and session information synchronization, failure detection and automatic switching between active servers

Aptilo has a proven success record delivering world-class wireless service management and Guest Internet Access solutions optimized for the specific needs of service providers and carriers, multinational enterprises, the travel and transportation industry, healthcare, hospitality, municipalities and governments worldwide with over 7,000 WiFi sites, 30,000 access points and 70,000 hotel rooms supporting 2,000,000+ user logins each month for venue owners worldwide.