Public Access

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.

Bluesocket systems are designed to manage a diverse community of users all making use of the same wireless public access network. BlueSecure Controllers 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, give Bluesocket a dominant market share in the convention center and hotel hotspot vertical markets across the US with both building and campus scale deployments.

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 Metro/Underground (Subway) Stations
• 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

To find out more about how Bluesocket can help your organization click here to speak with a Bluesocket sales representative.