Wi-Fi is everywhere; in our homes, in our work places, on the streets, in the tube stations, in the airport. Analyst predictions are showing that about 80% of all mobile and voice data traffic will be Wi-Fi based in the near future. At the same time, telecommunications and cloud providers are struggling to find new revenue streams to compete with Over the Top (OTT) providers. In this direction, they are looking to create innovative telecom and cloud services and not just remain a dump pipe.
Meanwhile, designing and managing networks has become more innovative over the past few years with the aid of Software Defined Networking (SDN). Moreover, thanks to Network Function Virtualization (NFV) the operators are able to automate their networks while avoiding "vendor lock-in".
Intracom Telecom's solution unifies heterogeneous Wi-Fi Access Points, providing a centralized network management and unified services delivery engine. The providers benefit from the solution's carrier grade virtualization, by effortlessly isolating service offerings & network slices, as if they were running on completely separate hardware, while service function chaining is just a point and click configuration, offering unprecedented flexibility in creating and marketing advanced connectivity services in minimal time-to-market.
Moreover, Intracom Telecom has implemented an extensive Out-of-the-Box network services library (incl. DHCP, VoIP, Firewall, Web-Portal, Gateway, AAA Radius, NAT, DNS, Ad-Insertion, etc.) allowing Service Providers to readily offer new services in minimal time-to-market, while new 3rd party network service functions can effortlessly be integrated when needed. Finally, Quality of Service (QoS) can be applied based on different SSIDs (Class of Service CoS), or based to applications.
Intracom Telecom's Wi-Fi Service Innovation Platform is ideal for Service Providers, municipalities, schools, malls, enterprises, sport stadiums, airports and other similar cases as it is able to configure thousands of multi-vendor Wi-Fi Access Points from a single central point, powering a vast number of services. By using a point-and-click Graphical User Interface (GUI), the administrator can create different SSIDs providing separated and isolated set of services in each network. Finally, the operator can provide innovative services at minimum time-to market with minimum capital and operational expenditures (CapEx and OpEx).
One of the most common challenges for network operators is the management of a collection of disparate and heterogeneous Wi-Fi Access Points due to the hardness of offering "universal" services across the entire network. Intracom Telecom's Virtualized Wi-Fi Services Platform unifies all the Access Points by provisioning the vendor's controllers or directly controlling the Access Points. In conclusion, the network access infrastructure owner can utilize his/her existing legacy equipment and there is no need for buying new expensive state-of-the-art machines.
As it is shown in the figure, all Access Points are managed centrally using Intracom Telecom's Access Point Manager. The Access Point Manager is a modules placed in OpenDaylight which uses protocols like SNMP and CAPWAP to configure the vendor's controllers or directly the Access Points.
Cities should avail themselves of the opportunities that IoT technologies offer on their way to become Smarter. Practically, that means that more and more dummy things will be Wi-Fi capable and sometimes Wi-Fi Hot Spots too. Therefore, the number of Wi-Fi Access Points across the city is increased. As Intracom Telecom's Virtualized Wi-Fi Services Platform can manage centrally the most of them, there is a big opportunity for extra monetization among the city.
Today's generation of students is unlike any other. These little digital natives and their beloved mobile devices are attached at the hip. They keep their mobile devices on them at all times and expect connectivity. Therefore, as our society continues to become more and more gadget addicted, Wi-Fi Connected schools becomes inevitable. Similarly, in the high schools and universities in which the wireless connectivity is vital across the facilities. Intracom Telecom's Virtualized Wi-Fi Services Platform is the best solution for schools cases unifying and managing all Wi-Fi APs centrally and offering very easily virtual networks like students, teachers, accountants, etc, while giving managing role to each school for its own virtual networks.
