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The ENPAQ Wifi Hotspot add-on provides the most secure, manageable, and easy-to-provision hotspot functionality in the market for both Hospitality sector and businesses that require secure WiFi.

ENPAQ Connectivity, Security, and Manageability

With the ENPAQ Unified Gateway, you get a wealth of connectivity, security, and manageability features. The Wi-Fi Hotspot addon is completely integrated into the ENPAQ Unified Gateway, making it as easy to enable secure and metered Wi-Fi as any other function on the ENPAQ Unified Gateway.

Restrict or enable your users through the built-in firewall, allowing them to access the resources they need, with assured security over the radio-waves. Inline Anti-Virus makes sure that web and email content that land in the Wifi users' computers safe. Web content filtering makes sure that your Internet usage policy is enforced. The ENPAQ's reporting features gives you instant access to network usage or scheduled email reports.

If you have many Wifi Access Points (AP), you'll love the ENPAQ's monitoring feature - get an immediate SMS or email when any AP goes down, get scheduled reports and historical data on the uptime and downtime of your APs.

The ENPAQ's built-in WAN load-balancing, failover, and QoS, let you prioritize business traffic over Wifi, and ensures continuous uptime despite WAN link failures. The ENPAQ is WAN-agnostic - you can connect ADSL, Cable Internet, Leased-line, or even RF.

Click here for screenshots of the Web interface and here for configuration.

Typical setup for authentication

Wi-Fi hotspots can be for businesses and for guest access. The requirement for businesses and the Hospitality industry are different and the Hotspot add-on can be setup to match these requirements.

Requirements for Businesses

•  Do you need to provide secure and managed Wifi to your company's employees?
• Are you afraid that plain Wifi might allow access to unauthorized eavesdroppers?
• Do you want to give easy but restricted access to temporary users?

For user-management, you can choose to roll-out WPA2 with our built-in RADIUS hooked to your own Active Directory Server, or with our built-in RADIUS and user database. Or you can choose to let wireless users have hassle-free browser based authentication and WEP but with restricted access to your internal network. With the ENPAQ you can do both! Simultaneously provide trusted users with secure access via WPA, while guests enjoy hassle-free configuration and simple authentication but with limited access.

Requirements for Hospitality

• Do you want to make additional revenue by extending Wifi services to your guests?
• Do you want the flexibility to offer post-paid and pre-paid plans?
• Do you want to track and record your guest's network usage for legal purposes?

The ENPAQ Wifi Hotspot for Hospitality provides an integrated billing solution which ties up voucher generation and user generation with a simple and easy to use browser based Wifi walled-garden. Create different hourly or bandwidth based plans for prepaid usage or create post-paid users who will be billed by the minute when they check-out. You can also integrate the Wifi billing to your existing Hotel Management Solution, providing a single invoicing point, for billing and tracking convenience. The ENPAQ Wifi billing solution lets you choose the way you want to charge your guests.

Features

• User mgmt with WPA/Radius or Browser/MAC based authentication and accounting
• Multiple internet connections with seamless failover and load balancing
• VPN bypass and Walled-garden support
• Multiple usage plans
  • Pre-paid, post-paid, data-usage/time-based
  • Voucher/Invoice generation
• Detailed bw and browsing usage
• Monitor, report, and SMS/email alerts on WiFi and Internet links
• Capable of integrating with your Hotel Management or ERP solution