IntelliNet unveils EAP server

IntelliNet Technologies this week launched its Enhanced Authentication Protocol Server, which lets carriers provide wireless LAN access to their GPRS customers.

Additionally, the server enables single-statement billing through the carrier’s existing billing system and securely authenticates subscribers through an home location register.

With the EAP Server, a subscriber can use his or her current GSM/GPRS/UTMS SIM card to access the WLAN services, either through a public hotspot or through an office-based WLAN.

On the billing element, IntelliNet can offer various options depending on the carrier’s plans by creating call detail records that conform to their existing system, said Siva Tripuraneni, director of product management.

“We can do number of bytes transferred, number of IM messages or even base it on the number of different web sites visited,” he said. “Most of the [billing] systems have been standardized as far as CDRs go.”

For those offering pre-paid WLAN service, the company has included an SS7 interface that uses CAMEL (Customized Applications for Mobile Networks Enhanced Logic) technology, which can deduct minutes of voice and data from a single account. -- Vince Vittore, executive news editor