Smart Wireless Hotspot for 1 Km Campus

Description

College students have become more sophisticated and technologically savvy and are today far more mobile in their use of technology. Laptop computers and PDAs are quickly becoming standard, everyday tools for students, faculty and staff. To be of most use, these devices need to be connected to the Internet, hence the importance of broad wireless access. The wireless infrastructure does not replace the wired one. Rather, it is an expansion of infrastructure to facilitate more mobile forms of interface. Students, faculty and staff who have laptops or PDAs with 802.1x wireless cards are able to send and receive email, register for classes, download and upload assignments, check grades and surf the Web without need for a data jack connection.

With the increasing demand for internet access in educational campuses due to evolving standard of education and flexibility offered by the Internet – universities, colleges, educational institutes etc., are keenly stepping forward to setup secured and stable wired or Wi-Fi network campus for their students. As per the current market trend, most of the students like to carry 3-4 devices with them like mobile, tablets, laptops, ipods etc. with them to campus. As these devices devour bandwidth, colleges and universities are struggling hard to keep up with the bandwidth demand. Educational campuses have major requirements of user access control, control over bandwidth consumption, and differentiated policy control for management faculty’s access and student’s access. These campuses with wired and wireless internet access require seamlessly roaming facility to access internet from class room to library to labs and residential areas. Laying complete network with different vendor solution would be very costly effort and difficult to manage while technical issues. Education institutes require cost-efficient comprehensive solution that offers all the advance facilities and features in single platform with single point of contact for technical support.

School, College and Hostels Internet Access, Bandwidth Shaping, Hotspot Management and User Log Reports Solution

Macromancie WiFi enables educational institutes to provide regulated internet access to users in classrooms, libraries and also wifi hotspot access in dorms through extensive bandwidth controls over excessive usage. This ensures a reduction in costs as well as bandwidth consumption. Macromancie also ensures that the college campus wifi hotspot network is available for only students, staffs, faculties etc., by allowing authenticated users to access the internet network and avoids malicious login in the network. Macromancie offers dynamic package creation feature by which one can easily provide different package for students and faculties as per their need. Macromancie also offers the freedom to easily roam from Wi-Fi network to wired network without logging using its login-once feature. Macromancie also offers extensive reporting graphical as well as printable format to understand the usage of users.

• Access Management
• Internet Billing
• Captive Portal Capabilities
• Active Directory & LDAP Integration
• System Management
• Third Party Integrations
• Bandwidth Management
• Payment Gateway
• Multi-Location Institutes
• User Management
• Package Management
• Coupon Management
• Multiple Gateway Load Balancing
• Administration
• Reporting
• Attractive & User Friendly Admin Interface