Alepo RBS Hotspot is a centralized WiFi Billing, Prepaid, and Subscription server that manages multiple WiFi and WiMax Hotspots and Hotzones using the RADIUS protocol.
RBS WiFi Billing allows you to sign up subscribers instantly to your Public WiFi service, sell one-time password access, produce and use prepaid vouchers, give commissions to affiliates and locations, allow roaming to and from your location, charge roaming partners and most importantly serve all locations from a single server with centralized user management and centralized prepaid card management. RBS Hotspot for WiFi Billing supports most wireless subscriber gateways \ controllers with RADIUS support including: Bluesocket, Proxim AP2500, Dlink DSA, Nomadix, Colubris, Cisco BBSM and SSG, Juniper SDX, and Gemtek. Systems
Our Public Access customers include: the world busiest airports, hotels chains, CLEC, ILECs and MSOs.
We also help smaller wifi operators, roaming brokers, and smart entrepreneurs with innovative business models.
Our tier-1 service providers select Alepo for Public WiFi & WiMax billing because of our reliability, high availability, and legacy system integration capabilities.
Our startup customers choose Alepo for WiFi billing mainly because of our startup edition pricing, long term scalability and reliability, and feature richness.
Alepo has no co-branding requirements or claim of ownership on your customer base. Our WiFi billing solution may be deployed at your premises, any dedicated hosting provider, or we can host it and manage it for you. You can also change hosting providers as you need. Any path you go, you do get a perpetual software license and you keep all your revenues to yourself.
- Hotspot portal with web registration, web self-care and instant connection purchase, all 100% customizable with no co-branding requirements
- Built-in high performance RADIUS server with real-time billing
- Web-based administration allowing for remote management and hosting
- End-to-end prepaid management with voucher generation, assignment, commissioning, with zero-leakage enforcement and mid-session disconnect
- Subscription based services including setup fees, recurring fees, usage fees and bonuses
- Affiliate system for location commissioning
- Location branding
- Roaming and settlements (with your own partner network or aggregators such as iPass, Gric, and Boingo)
- Credit card clearing
- Optional integration to Hotel PMS system (Fidelio)
- Optional password by SMS with Telecom billing integration
- Optional 802.1X \ WPA security
Alepo created RBS Hotspot Wi-Fi Billing with carrier grade customers in mind. Written in multithreaded cross platform C++ code, Alepo products are 100% owned by Alepo and do not rely on open source or third party components.
With 99.999% SLA agreements and 24x7 staffed help desk, Alepo is also your choice for peace of mind.
- Selling since 1997
- Numerous awards by Magazines and leading Web Sites
- Hundreds of customers in over 50 countries
- Millions of users worldwide
- Unparalleled WiFi Rating Flexibility Learn More
- Online billing and automated user interaction Learn More
- End-to-end Prepaid Support Learn More
- Web based management Learn More
- Easy setup and maintenance Learn More
- Multi platform, multi vendor support
- Customizable, fully featured, web customer self care
- Local customization
- Carrier grade RADIUS functionality Learn More
- High performance, 99.999% Availability Learn More
- Flat rate, tiered, duration based, usage based wifi billing
- Define different tariffs for different time of day and/or days of week
- Provide free hours and/or free megabytes on a periodic or one off basis
- Charge set up fees up front or on first bill
- Define special promotional offers
- Automatically assign offers for customers that either expire after a set period
- Anniversary or fixed date wifi billing
- Group Billing
- XML/XSL representation of bills for web and print
- Absolute control on the level of detail at each invoice
- Flexible billing cycles that range from daily and weekly to annually
- Automated credit card payment collection
- Email invoices and\or session reports
- Advanced automated responses to late payment, you can:
- Completely suspend a user on late payment
- Send e-mail reminders
- Change the user account to have limited access or access only to the web self care module
- where the user can then make payments
- provision/de-provision email servers, web servers and other Network Elements automatically on customer registration, suspension, refused payment, late payment, termination, and more.
RBS Hotspot software gives you prepaid magic. Allowing you to manage the full life cycle of prepaid cards including, production, usage, credit enforcement and reseller handling. Additionally, you can:
- Sell prepaid cards with megabytes or hours of use or $ amount
- Associated different prepaid card groups with different tariff and service plans
- Automatically commission resellers
- Associate between user groups and different prepaid cards
- Associate between packages available for purchase and different prepaid cards
- Automatically assign offers for customers that either expire after a set period
With RBS Hotspot billing at your side you can make sophisticated prepaid plans while being rest assured that users want over use their credit thanks to real time credit enforcement. RBS credit enforcement allows you to:
- Tell the subsriber gateway the maximal amount of time a user can be connected for, based on their balance, free hours, or combination of both.
- Disallow access to the user as soon as the balance is exhausted.
RBS for WiFi billing is 100% web based. Without the use of java applets, which are inflexible, RBS Hotspot software is a true HTML based solution that can be remodeled and extended to your unique needs. Having a 100% web based applications makes servicing and installation easier. Imagine, checking up on how many user’s you have logged in, their balances, view trouble tickets, generate new tariff plans, and more, from anywhere on earth using RBS’ secure (SSL) admin web interface.
Being completely web based you can host RBS with a hosting provider and manage it remotely. Alepo WiFi billing allows you to customize privileges and profiles for the application, allowing people with different roles to have access only to the functionality they need.
RBS is an all in one package that takes the hassle out of setting up your business. Alepo WiFi billing Hot-spot software provides support for most Routers, Access Servers and Access Points, in the market, as well as interoperability with most other RADIUS vendors. Because its all-in-one, you save yourself valuable configuration time. Once RBS Hotspot billing is set up, you have RADIUS, billing and user self management all ready to go, out of the box.
RBS Hotspot software is designed to be easy to setup even for non technical personal. Backoffice RADIUS setup is already made so you need to know very little about this protocol to get started.
Most of our customers are up and running within days, that is, they are ready to accept logins, have rating plans defined, web self care and registration running, invoices and more.
RBS can be customized on all levels to suit any language, including right to left languages, and simplified Chinese based languages, that is
- Change the user and administration interface to any languages
- Change the invoices for any language
- Use any currency and any floating point values
- Support for multiple taxes>
Alepo offers interface translation services and licenses as well as have many languages already in store and ready for use.
RBS integrated RADIUS server is amongst the top RADIUS servers available in the market today. It is high performing and feature packed, and because it is pre-integrated you remove much of the set-up hassles. Examples of some of the features offered
- Support for DSL, VPN, Dialup, 802.11 (Hotspots, and WISP), Content Subscriptions
- RFC 2865 & 2138 - RADIUS Authentication
- RFC 2866 & 2139 - RADIUS Accounting
- Vendor specific attribute
- RADIUS roaming and proxy (including proxy target billing)
- Concurrent login control (per user and per group
- IP allocation and centralized IP pools management
- Pass-through Authentication: Proxy, NT SAM \ Active Directory, LDAP
- Session-timeout calculations integrated with real-time billing
- Web online session list
- Support for dynanic NAS ip addressing
- RDBMS or text file accounting log
Written entirely with multithreaded C++ code with no stored procedures or interpreted scripting language, RBS Hotspot for WiFi billing performance and scalability can not be matched by any competitive solution that employs a separated RADIUS server and rating engine approach.
Moreover – RBS parallel backup server coupled with the secondary RDBMS fallback mechanism ensures 24/7 operation with no single point of failure and zero failover time, since the backup server is always ready to serve requests.
Even version upgrades, maintenance, and RDBMS schema changes can be done with no service interruption.
But most important is the maturity RBS Hotspot software has gained for more then 6 years of production sites continuous operation, with an estimated track record of successfully replying to more then a billion RADIUS requests, while producing millions of invoices.
