Nomadix Service Engine (NSE)

The NSE software includes over 15 functional areas needed to successfully deploy public access networks—HotSpots—that can support wired and wireless users. This design provides multiple revenue opportunities through various billing and roaming capabilities and a user-friendly environment. The NSE offers great advantages to service providers, to owners of HotSpots and to the end-users through:

A unified service across HotSpots of various sizes and types.
Support for a wide range of authentication and roaming options.
Branding and location-specific content.
Hassle-free connection and navigation assistance for the users.
Mobility through wireless integration.
A variety of methods to pay for services through credit cards, subscriptions or integration with Property Management Systems (PMS).
Integration to other back-end systems via a secure XML API.
Scalability from a single HotSpot to a Metro network with up to 4000 users.

The following table illustrates the capabilities of the NSE:

User Experience	Access Control & Authentication	Network Management
Dynamic Address Translation (DAT) for zeroconfiguration network access iNAT for seamless subscriber VPN experience (IPSec, PPTP ) IP-Upsell for better user experience Walled Garden Home/Portal Page Redirect (with parameter passing) Login Page Fail-over Information and Control Console (ICC) External/Internal Web Server Mode Pop-Up (Explicit) Log Out Button Session Termination Redirect Remember Me Log-in VOIP Support (DAT SIP) URL Filtering User-Agent Filtering Quality of Service: Tag packets-policies/rules; Performance capping International Language Support (UTF-8	UAM (Browser-Based over SSL) IEEE 802.1x (MD-5 / TLS / TTLS / PEAP) RADIUS (AAA) Proxy RADIUS Client (MD-5, PAP, CHAP, MS-CHAP v1/v2) Port Mapping Exclude users from SMTP redirection Tri-Mode Authentication Support Bandwidth Management LAN Bandwidth Management WAN Internal Database	SSH SNMP/XML Enhancements Web Management Interface (WMI) Command Line Interface (CLI) Integrated VPN Client for secure connection to NOC SNMPv2C RADIUS-Driven Configuration RADIUS shared secret (up to 64 characters) DNS Enabled configuration Static Port Mapping Multi-Level Admin. support Access Control List (extend to static port mapping) Bridge Mode DHCP Server, Relay, Client Multiple Subnet Support PPPoE Client Secure (port mapping restoration) Secure XML API (SSL) System and subscriber syslogs Configure failover time Site naming using HTML title Default source IP address 172.30.30.173 NTP support
Billing	Advanced Security
Smart Clients (Boingo, iPass, and GoRemote) Credit Card Interface (authorize.net, Clearfusion) Property Management System Interface (MICROS, OnQ, Fidealio etc.) Charge for Idle Time	Ability to use Nomadix VSA with Radius Proxy EAPoL-Logoff DoS prevention Session Rate Limiting (SRL) MAC Address Filtering ICMP Blocking Proxy ARP