Amazingports
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AmazingPorts is a Linux-based software product customized for use as a firewall, captive portal and billing system (Hotspots). The project started in 2001.
| Company type | Privately Held |
|---|---|
| Industry | Hotspot and Billing Software |
| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Jan Eldenmalm |
| Headquarters | , |
Key people | Raj Oruganti, Fredrik Lindgren |
| Website | www |
Description
AmazingPorts is mainly deployed as an access control system in private and public networks. It can 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.[1] It was used for a city-wide Wi-Fi project in 2004,[2] and Internet roaming in 2002.[3]
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 include:
- 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[4]
- Compliance with the anti-terrorist Directive 2006/24/EC