Amazingports

AmazingPorts
AmazingPorts
Type	Privately Held
Industry	Hotspot and Billing Software
Founded	2001
Founder	Jan Eldenmalm
Headquarters	London, United Kingdom
Key people	Raj Oruganti, Fredrik Lindgren
Website	www.amazingports.com

AmazingPorts was a Linux-based software product customized for use as a firewall, captive portal and billing system (Hotspots). The project started in 2001 and is now defunct.

Description

AmazingPorts was mainly deployed as an access control system in private and public networks. It could be deployed as a single hotspot controller in airports, hotels, private locations and hospitals. It was used in Internet cafes in Europe by 2002 together with Intel. It was used for a city-wide Wi-Fi project in 2004, and Internet roaming in 2002.

AmazingPorts was created in 2001 with an initial vision of building free networks. Later the company refocused and provided its technology to network builders. The company implemented service-oriented provisioning in 2002 and was the first to implement 802.11a public hotspots in Europe. During 2009 and 2010 the administrative system was updated.

Features included:

Firewall
Service Oriented Provisioning
NAT
Distributed and/or centralised routing
Fully customisable and language sensitive captive portal or any third party web page
Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server
Integrated PayPal payments supporting many currencies
Automatic currency updates from the European Central Bank
Roles based Administration
Seamless Roaming
Compliance with the anti-terrorist Directive 2006/24/EC

References

↑ "AmazingPorts offers first 802.11a hotspot access in Europe" (Press release) (in German). Intel. 5 August 2002. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
↑ "Mobilt bredband utmed Norr Mälarstrand". Computer Sweden (in Swedish). 2004-01-23. Retrieved 2010-06-05.
↑ Ryberg, Jonas (2002-08-21). "Providing roaming for ADSL customers of Telia Sonera" (in Swedish). Ny Teknik. Archived from the original on 2011-06-08. Retrieved 5 June 2010.
↑ Ellison, Carol (2003-12-05). "Very Early seamless roaming". Channel Insider. Retrieved 5 June 2010.

External links

[1] "AmazingPorts offers first 802.11a hotspot access in Europe" (Press release) (in German). Intel. 5 August 2002. Retrieved 5 June 2010.

[2] "Mobilt bredband utmed Norr Mälarstrand". Computer Sweden (in Swedish). 2004-01-23. Retrieved 2010-06-05.

[3] Ryberg, Jonas (2002-08-21). "Providing roaming for ADSL customers of Telia Sonera" (in Swedish). Ny Teknik. Archived from the original on 2011-06-08. Retrieved 5 June 2010.

[4] Ellison, Carol (2003-12-05). "Very Early seamless roaming". Channel Insider. Retrieved 5 June 2010.