Public access wireless is one of the fastest growing segments in networking with 802.11 hotspots appearing everywhere, from local fast-food restaurants and hotels to large sporting arenas and shopping malls.

Many hotels, meeting centers, restaurants and transportation depots offer wireless as a public service convenience, and need to provide a wireless solution that is easy to access and use. However, these same businesses also need to control bandwidth and protect the network and its users against unauthorized users and dangerous viruses and malicious code.

systems are designed to manage a diverse community of users all making use of the same wireless public access network. WLAN solution provide strong and reliable security controls that handle authentication and Internet access without compromising ease-of-use and a seamless wireless experience.

These, and other capabilities,  gave Bluesocket™ a dominant market share in the convention center and hotel hotspot vertical markets across the US with both building and campus scale deployment.

Solution Benefits:

•  Bluesocket™ provides a complete and integrated public access solution including BlueSecure Controllers, indoor and outdoor Access Points, Planning and Management tools and market-leading Guest Access Services.
•  Bluesocket™ Guest Access Services provide IT administrators the flexibility to customize a variety of login/splash pages based on user location (lobby, conference rooms, etc).
• Only Bluesocket™ supports integration with leading credit payment and hotspot roaming/billing solutions – including Authorize.net, Authorize AIM, Cybersource, iPass, PicoPoint and Boingo. - enabling businesses to provide their own enterprise hotspot services.
• Bluesocket™ provides an industry standard web services (XML/RPC) API, allowing for easy integration with existing network and application infrastructure.
• Role-based policy enforcement & security include identity and role based stateful firewall policies, session IPS, traceable client behavior, clientless guest device integrity scanning and bandwidth throttling.

Bluesocket™ systems are presently used to protect and manage public access WiFi networks including the following locations:

• City of Burbank, CA
• City of Springfield, MO
• Airports in North America and Europe
• Railway and
• Hotels in Stockholm, Atlanta, and across the United Kingdom, as well as a World-Class Resort in the mountains of West Virginia
• Conference and meeting facilities including an industrial park outside Edinburgh, Scotland