Re: Hotspot-in-a-box

For an interesting vendor in this space who might be able to save you a 
substantial amount of money

http://www.ippay.com/

They created a business around serving the Service Provider industry 
exclusively.

Frank Bulk wrote:
> We actually do have an established relationship with a credit card 
> processor for those who want to pay their telephone/CATV/internet bill 
> online, as our billing system vendor has built the hooks to make that 
> all happen.  So hopefully there is a hotspot product out there that can 
> do the same thing.
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> Frank
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> *From:* Kevin Kargel [mailto:kkargel-BvA0c2rBOuxWk0Htik3J/[email protected]]
> *Sent:* Monday, May 11, 2009 11:52 AM
> *To:* [email protected]; [email protected]
> *Subject:* RE: Hotspot-in-a-box
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> Unless you already have a relationship with a credit card processor for 
> online sales you are going to find that it would be cheaper for you to 
> give the access away for free.  We had this idea once upon a time also, 
> but the fees and requirements for making it work with the cc folks made 
> it untenable for a small operation.  Now if you were talking about 
> hundreds of hotspots with tens of thousands of dollars per day in sales 
> it might be feasible. 
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> I do not know of an AAA box that uses PayPal.
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> Best regards,
> Kevin Kargel
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> *From:* [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Frank Bulk
> *Sent:* Monday, May 11, 2009 11:46 AM
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Subject:* Hotspot-in-a-box
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> I’m looking for a “hotspot-in-a-box” solution that we can centrally host 
> for multiple remote sites (mostly parks and public areas). 
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> I would like to be able to say I could take the traffic L2 back to this 
> box so that it acts as the gateway, but if I had to L3 route all the 
> traffic through it, I would be OK with that.  It would need to be able 
> to work against our RADIUS server so that we could authenticate our own 
> customers, but for those that are not our customers, we would like the 
> option to bill them using credit card, Paypal, and the like.  I would 
> prefer to buy as opposed to outsource the payment/portal side, but I’m 
> open to that if there aren’t any other good options.
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> Again, I’m looking for comments from those who have operational 
> experience, as my google-fu is as good anyone’s. =)
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> Thanks,
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> Frank
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