Technology Partners

Our strategic technology partnerships enable us to deliver advanced wireless and VoIP solutions to help address emerging market requirements for your customers today, and also prepare their business for future technology innovations given our joint product development efforts. To learn more about how you and your business can benefit directly from our technology partnerships please contact us at partners@bluesocket.com

AirMagnet.com
AirMagnet Inc. is the leader in security, performance and compliance solutions for wireless LANs. The company's innovative products include AirMagnet Enterprise, the leading 24x7 WLAN security and performance management solution, and AirMagnet WiFi Analyzer - which is known as the "de facto tool for wireless LAN troubleshooting and analysis." Other products provide WLAN site survey and design, RF interference detection, remote diagnostics, and the world's first voice over WiFi analysis solution. For more information, visit http://www.AirMagnet.com

Avaya DeveloperConnection Gold Partner
Avaya delivers Intelligent Communications solutions that help companies transform their businesses to achieve marketplace advantage. More than one million businesses worldwide, including more than 90 percent of the FORTUNE 500®, use Avaya solutions for IP Telephony, Unified Communications, Contact Centers and Communications-Enabled Business Processes. Avaya Global Services provides comprehensive service and support for companies, small to large. Bluesocket WLAN solutions have received the Avaya DeveloperConnection Compliant Award as we continue to work closely with Avaya on expanding our product compliancy testing. For more information please visit https://devconnect.avaya.com/public/search/d_cprofile.jsp?search=1&i=2242

Airpath Wireless
Airpath Wireless provides WiFi Back-Office infrastructure solutions needed to enable WISPs, carriers, and venue owners to rapidly deploy and operate Hot Spots. Airpath's solutions are perfect for those venues desiring to offer WiFi Hot Spot services such as airports, hotels, restaurants, and other public areas. Bluesocket's Wireless Gateways have been certified as an Airpath-approved subscriber gateway solution. Bluesocket gateways seamlessly integrate with Airpath's back-office systems so that companies implementing Airpath's Hot Spot Billing Suite and the Airpath Roaming Network can do so quickly and worry-free. Bluesocket and Airpath will continue to exchange technology and recommend each other's products as the means to quickly proliferate the availability of high-speed public Internet Access.

Alepo
Alepo provides AAA, Prepaid, Payment, Billing and CRM solutions for Hotspot operators, aggregators and wireless ISPs. Its RBS Hotspot product is an integrated RADIUS, Billing, Payment, Roaming and Hotspot Portal server that is deployed at the NOC and serves all of remote and local Bluesocket Wireless Gateways. Alepo has pioneered the market for prepaid internet. Selling since 1997, the Alepo RBS product line is installed worldwide in over 50 countries, servicing small, medium and large ISP, ITSP, WISP, and HSO deployments. Bluesocket and Alepo have partnered together to create a complete, integrated, Hotspot solution that is workable out of the box. Bluesocket and Alepo have successfully implemented the joint solution in hotspots, hotels and telcos across the globe.

Firetide
A privately held wireless mesh technology company, develops networking equipment to deploy large Wireless Instant Networks quickly, easily and affordably. Firetide's Instant Networking solution is ideal for building out Wi-Fi networks, video surveillance, and temporary networks in a variety of environments, such as public access Hot Zones, airports, hotels, campus environments or other locations where wiring is difficult, disruptive, or expensive. Investors include Menlo Ventures, HMS Ventures, and Hawaiian Electric Industries. For more information, visit the company's website at http://www.firetide.com.

Intel
Bluesocket provides highly complementary products and services to its top wireless LAN component partner, Intel. Through a tight working technology interchange and in-the-field sales opportunity relationship, Bluesocket illustrates daily its support of Intel’s Network Connectivity products such as the ProWireless line of 802.11a/b Access Points, NICs and adapters. Bluesocket also bundles Intel components within Bluesocket’s family of enterprise WLAN gateways. To reach local contacts from Intel or Bluesocket or to ask specific questions on interoperability, please send an email to intel@bluesocket.com.

iPass
iPass provides secure global remote Internet access across multiple networks and devices through a single interface from any location. Based on its proprietary technology, iPass has the unique ability to enable dissimilar network types to be seamlessly integrated and capable of delivering next-generation cross-network applications. With the world’s largest remote access network – featuring over 12,000 points of presence (POPs) in 150 countries – iPass supplies mobile professionals with reliable, cost-effective dialup and Internet connections from anywhere in the world with a local phone call.

Microsoft Solutions Provider Partner
The Microsoft Mobile Solutions Partner Program is a worldwide initiative designed to help companies develop cutting-edge solutions using Microsoft Mobile Software, and successfully bring them to market. Bluesocket securely supports Microsoft clients using PPTP or IPSec for Windows 95/98, 2000, NT, XP & Pocket PC operating systems. Our unique policy-based networking capabilities assure Microsoft users that quality of service and security administration to WLAN users – whether they are using standards such as 802.1x or other schemas – is as simple as a click of a button. That also means the Microsoft users use transparent single sign-on to a WLAN, meaning no hassles as they roam the mobile enterprise.

As a result of working with Microsoft, Bluesocket supports:

IPSec clients running on Windows 95/98, 2000, NT, XP & Pocket PC OS.
802.1x standards for encryption & authentication on Microsoft Windows XP
"Traffic Shaping"- to administer network controls on all Microsoft-enabled mobile devices
Transparent single sign on for Microsoft Windows-based applications, designed to ease access to unwired resources by mobile workers

To request more information on Bluesocket’s support and interoperability with Microsoft, send an email to Microsoft@bluesocket.com.

No Wires Allowed develops web applications which integrate with and extend the guest management capabilities of BlueSecure controllers. Customers are increasingly requiring the ability to provision temporary accounts for guests, contractors or external visitors and have a simple and secure mechanism to authenticate and manage those users. Backing into the authentication and role based access control of Bluesocket controllers, administrators can be certain that internal staff can perform routine guest and visitor management without compromising security or burdening IT support. The BlueWare Application Suite provides simple web applications allowing users to provision guest accounts, reset passwords or expiry dates for accounts stored on the BlueSecure local user database. Whether it's a one off account, a regular visitor, or a batch of scratch cards for controlled distribution, these simple applications provide a complete guest management solution. There is even the ability to manage cash payments or a commercial hotspot with online credit card processing. Government departments, Sporting stadiums, Universities and Colleges, Healthcare, Finance and Corporate customers around the world are using BlueWare applications in combination with BlueSecure solutions to provide comprehensive and secure guest management.

Oberon Wireless
Oberon Wireless specializes in mounting systems, enclosures, and antennas for Bluesocket Access Points. The Oberon design permits the Bluesocket access point to be conveniently and aesthetically mounted in a locking, plenum rated enclosure above the ceiling tile grid or in the wall. The locking door permits convenient access to the access point, antennas, and RF cables. Matched antennas provide optimized RF coverage for every venue. Whether the requirement is for UL™ listed enclosures, compliance with local fire code and National Electric Code (NEC) plenum installation, mounting in “hard lid” or outdoor venues, or satisfying enterprise aesthetic or physical security criterion, Oberon enclosures simplify your installation process. To learn more about installing Bluesocket access points in Oberon enclosures, please contact sales@oberonwireless.com.

Packeteer
Packeteer is the leading provider of application traffic management solutions worldwide. Built with Packeteer's patented technology for intelligent bandwidth management, these solutions optimize network and application performance across wide-area networks and the Internet. The result is reduced IT operational costs and increased business productivity through better bandwidth utilization. Packeteer's family of intelligent, scalable appliances give IT organizations network visibility, control, and compression capabilities, to ensure that critical productivity applications perform efficiently and reliably over the WAN, Internet and wireless networks enhanced by Bluesocket. Together, Bluesocket and Packeteer help businesses improve operational performance and generate greater value from IT investments.

PicoPoint Technologies
PicoPoint Technologies’ leading offering for Wireless ISPs provides an all-in-one service to commercialize & manage private labelled WLAN networks, from end-user authentication to online credit card handling. The service is easy to use, customizable and integrated with major roaming providers such as GBIA, IPass and Boingo.
The PicoPoint platform enables swift and cost-efficient hotspot roll-out thanks to its high level of flexibility; facilitating full control over network access and your commercial offering.
PicoPoint Technologies' Global Roaming Services - Global Broadband Internet Access (GBIA) is delivering services to an international alliance of network providers, carriers, ISPs, & Enterprises. GBIA offers an easy entry for mobile carriers and ISP’s that wish to extend their offering by providing access to our worldwide coverage of Wi-Fi HotSpots to their end-users. Network providers that wish to drive more traffic to their wireless network benefit from the roaming partnerships by joining the GBIA alliance network.

VASCO
As wireless LANs are adopted in all sorts of businesses, Bluesocket continues to join with leading security solution providers for key vertical market applications. VASCO is one such company. With headquarters in Chicago and offices in Brussels, Boston, Singapore, Sidney and Melbourne, VASCO secures the enterprise from the mainframe to the Internet. It provides infrastructure solutions that enable secure e-business and e-commerce, protect sensitive information, and safeguard the identity of users. The Company's family of Digipass® software and hardware tokens and VACMAN® server software interoperate with Bluesocket's Wireless Gateways, assuring end-to-end security through strong authentication, digital signature, and RADIUS, LAN and Web security, while sharply reducing the time and effort required to deploy and manage security. VASCO's customers include hundreds of financial institutions, blue-chip corporations, and government agencies in more than 50 countries. Send an email to vasco@bluesocket.com for more details.

Wireless Valley
Wireless Valley® Communications, a developer of software solutions for wireless network design and management, provides the software for Bluesocket’s Wireless LANPlanner™. The product enables companies to design robust wireless networks with the capacity, reliability and performance required to run the most demanding applications. Enterprises, universities, multi-tenant office buildings, carriers and businesses worldwide look to Wireless Valley’s software to easily plan, visualize, and manage any PCS, Cellular, 3G, WiFi/WLAN, Mesh, WiMax, RFID and ZigBee wireless network. Wireless Valley has developed a rich intellectual property portfolio with more than 100 U.S. and international patents pending and issued. For more information, visit www.wirelessvalley.com or call (512) 821-1560