ALL-IN-ONE AAA , BILLING & CRM
      Alepo RBS Hotspot is an all-in-one centralized Billing, Prepaid, and Subscription server that serves multiple Hotspots using the RADIUS protocol. RBS Hotspot allows you to sell one-time access for causal users , sign up subscribers to your Public Wireless LAN service, produce and use prepaid vouchers, give commissions to affiliates, allow roaming to and from your locations and charge roaming partners. Control and management is done securely, through a web browser pointed at the centralized server.—Alepo RBS Hotspot. RBS Hotspot works with all leading access controllers\subscriber gateways products, and all leading Hotspot-in-a-box access points with inbuilt controller functionality. The controller\gateway is in charge for redirecting the user browser, accepting logins, and managing the user session , while RBS Hotspot is doing all the rest.

PROVEN PAST, BUILT FOR THE FUTURE
      • Selling since 1997
      • Numerous awards by magazines and leading web sites
      • Hundreds of customers in over 50 countries, some with         over    500,000 users.
      • Future friendly design ensure compatibility with future         standards    and requirements (such as WiMax)

SUPPORTED PAYMENT MODELS
Casual user - Instant access
       • By Credit Card, Prepaid voucher, or SMS (one time password)
       • Metered time, metered volume, window of usage

Subscription access
      • Daily, Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly , Annually cycles
      • Web based signup
      • Promotions

Roaming
      • To network
      • From network
      • Create you own network or join existing (Boingo, Gric, iPass)
      • Billing and settlements for roaming partners

RATING AND BILLING FEATURES
      • Flat rate or usage based rating (time, volume)
      • Charge based on time of day/day of week
      • Tiered rating and discounts
      • Location based rating
      • Setup fees, recurring fees, recurring bonuses (free hours or MBs)
      • Account auto renewal, manual renewal, and one off
      • Hierarchical (Corporate or Family) billing
      • Add-on services and items
      • Detailed, customizable XML\XSL invoices and session reports
      • Electronic bill payment and presentation
      • Full credit limit automation with grace period
      • Real time (signup) and batch (recurring) credit card clearing
      • Affiliate system including affiliate commissioning and affiliate self care

PREPAID FEATURES
      • Voucher management, automated batch production
      • Complex vouchers— holding combination of: Hours, Megabytes, Allowed usage period, •         Cash amount
      • Web based account activation and account refill using vouchers
      • Location based vouchers
      • Sell batches to Resellers with automated credit control
      • Voucher shelf life
      • Credit card prepayment
      • Zero leakage credit enforcement with real-time session disconnect

HOTSPOT PORTAL AND CRM FEATURES
      • Hotspot portal with instant credit card login or subscriber signup.
      • Customer web self care and management that includes:
              - Password change
              - Bill payment and presentation
              - Login history and session report
              - Refill prepaid account
              - Purchase additional products and services
      • Custom customer fields
      • Trouble ticketing
      • Email invoices and session reports
      • Automated email based on customer criteria (e.g. email before CC expires).
      • User import utilities and batch CRM
      • CSR can post payments, credits, and adjustments

REPORTING FEATURES
      • Daily, weekly, monthly, annual and live usage graphs and statistics
      • Earnings graphs comparison tables
      • Top 10 reports (top ten earners and users)
      • Commissioning reports
      • Integrates with Crystal Reports
      • Import and export reports, payments and invoices from/to QuickBooks and Excel

SECURITY AND ANTI-FRAUD FEATURES
      • Firewall protection (server is usually located in the DMZ)
      • SSL Encryption
      • Password lockout mechanism that protects against dictionary attacks
      • System wide, cross location, MAC address black list
      • Concurrent user login control (allow only 1 session per user)
      • WPA and 802.x security (provided byAP)
      • Audit trail for administrative, CSR, and automated operations.
      • Customizable access roles and permissions
      • Encryption of sensitive data in db (password, credit cards)
      • Components separation (Server, Admin, Self Care, Portal).

INSTALLATION AND CUSTOMIZATION
      • Complete installation and initial configuration in less then 60 minutes
      • Can be installed at NOC, Location, or hosting provider (dedicated or virtual)
      • Integration with subscriber gateways is standards based:
               - RADIUS authentication
               - RADIUS accounting
      • Customize plans and packages using web interface
      • 2-Way provisioning hooks
      • HTML based customization of customer and administrator screens
      • Optional API kits including APIs for integration with payment gateways (such as banks       and clearing    uses), billing, and content systems.

MAINTENANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
      • Web based Remote administration
      • Live performance monitoring
      • View online users of all locations
      • Online backups (regular backups required for database only)
      • 6 system logs with up to 7 logging levels each. Logging to text files, Syslog server, Event       viewer    (Windows version).
      • Automated administrative notification and daily reports via email

SCALABILITY AND REDUNDANCY
      • Multithread C++ code optimized over 6 years, delivers high performance:
               - 200 requests/sec on dual CPU machine.
               - 4 hours billing cycle for 500,000 postpaid accounts.
               - Less then 10 ms for authentication (including prerating and bucket allocation)
               - Near linear performance improvement when adding CPUs
      • Optional component distribution
      • Optional user database distribution across servers
      • Server is running in some production environments for more then 365 days without       a restart
      • High availability with 99.999% uptime
      • Parallel server option with always-on redundancy (Active-Active)
      • No single point of failure (requires RDBMS cluster or parallel DB replication)

SUPPORTED PLATFORMS
Operating systems:	Backend databases:
• Windows NT/2000/2003/XP • Red Hat Linux 8/9 • Sun Solaris 9 • Client: any web browser on any    operating system	• Oracle 8i, 9i (Standard, enterprise or    personal) • MS SQL 6.5 , 7 or 2000 (Standard,    enterprise or MSDE) • MySQL 4.1 • MDB (MS Access not required

RECOMMENDED SERVER HARDWARE
Intel (Windows\Linux):	Sun:
Pentium III 800 or Pentium IV 512MB RAM RAID Storage Windows 2000\2003 (Any edition), XP Or Red Hat Linux 8	SPARC IIi 400 or Sparc IIIi 512 MB RAM RAID Storage Solaris 9