Large corporations have an increasing number of business relationships with many external parties. The efficiency and effectiveness of these relationships are paramount to the success of the company. Although customers, business partners and key stakeholders spend an increasing amount of time at your offices, they may not have access to their corporate resources in a quick and easy manner.

The purpose of Guest Internet Services is to allow customers, business partners and key stakeholders to use wireless technology to access their corporate resources from your office in a secure way. The benefit is increased productivity for both your staff and your visitors, enabling higher value business relationships.

To date, wireless networks have mostly been deployed in the SMB market, with enterprises holding off because of security concerns and administrative burdens.

Enterprises are now looking to roll out wireless networks.  This surge in interest is being driven by intense end-user demand and made possible by improved security features in Wi-Fi technology.  Aptilo’s solution makes it possible to securely manage centrally controlled wireless guest Internet access in these kinds of complex multi-site global networks.

Designed for large multi-site enterprises. The Aptilo Guest Internet Access solution is designed to work seamlessly with the infrastructure typically found in large corporations. Often, these enterprises have several satellite, or even temporary offices sitting outside the Wide Area Network (WAN), in addition to numerous sites within the network. Aptilo’s systems can employ redundant pairs of high-performance access controllers at the regional breakout points to the Internet, and smaller access controllers at the local offices outside the WAN, to connect them to the corporate office -- all managed from a central point. With this regional, centralized design, Aptilo’s solution can ensure that the guest Internet access experience is seamless not only for guests, but for employees responsible for deploying and managing the service as well.

For networks already having a Wi-Fi infrastructure with access control functionality, such as the Cisco WLC architecture, there is no need to add any network equipment at all at the customer premises. However, to support a heterogeneous network with Wi-Fi equipment from different vendors or add value added functionality such as controlled automatic login of returning users or traceability of usage through legal intercept, the purpose built Aptilo Access Controller™ can be deployed behind the existing access gateways.