TurboCell RADIUS Support

For Internet Service Providers with hundreds of thousands of customers, centralized account management is a must. KarlNet is pioneering the use of the RADIUS (Remote Dial-In User Service) standard for authentication and management of wireless stations and users.

Most current wireless products have minimal methods to allow or prevent access to the wireless link. Planned for general release in Q1 2000, TurboCell will enable service providers to authenticate both wireless stations and wireless station users to a centralized RADIUS server.

RADIUS is not only useful for checking login names and passwords, but is also capable of returning configuration information to the ISP Base Station to which the user is connected. This enables administrators to change a user's data rate for a free trial period, or deny service to a user for failure of payment. Based on the ISP's business model, RADIUS is capable of denying or accepting connections based on time of day or other connection information (such as the base station the user is connected to). This allows the Wireless ISP to sell roaming services at different rates than fixed wireless service.

If you are interested in more information on KarlNet's upgrade to TurboCell with RADIUS support, please visit our Contact Page and select 'Information about KarlNet software features'. Fill in your contact information and type 'RADIUS upgrade' in the comments box before you press 'Submit'.