Amazingports

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

• AmazingPorts Home Page
• Full features list
• How to set up a hotspot
• Pricing strategies in hotspots
• Computer Sweden
• NyTeknik
• Internet ACTU
• CNET