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Inventum wins the best single stall award at the recently concluded cable television show 2011, Kolkata.

The show is an annual event organized by CETMA & draws visitors from across India & Asia.

Inventum displayed its MSG Gateways, MSC Controllers & UNIFY ISP Service Management Platform.

“Cable operators greatly appreciated the MSG subscriber & bandwidth management solution…” said Anil Walia, National Sales Head, Inventum.

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Inventum today announced that it has successfully commissioned secure WiFi access for officials, athletes and visitors at the XIX Common Wealth Games 2010 being held in New Delhi, India.

Inventum’s MSC Service Controllers and UNIFY SMP were chosen to secure public Internet access using the WPA2 wireless standard. The solution implements secure mandatory log-on for each network user and also implements lawful monitoring as mandated by the Indian government’s Department of Telecommunications (DoT).

“We are proud that every participant of the games will be able to securely enjoy the Internet from anywhere at the games village…” said Anil Walia, Head of India Sales for Inventum. “This development is another addition to the long list of service providers & enterprises implementing WiFi security compliance solutions from Inventum.” added Walia.

The project for public WiFi at the games village had been awarded & implemented by Radius Infratel Pvt. Ltd. Apart from ubiquitous WiFi coverage, Radius Infratel has also deployed FTTH to each apartment within the village.

More details of the WiFi security compliance solution can be access from the Inventum website

About Inventum
Inventum Technologies Pvt. Ltd. is a leading provider of telecom OSS/BSS solutions. With large deployments in both wireless and wire-line networks, Inventum solutions include multi-service network controllers, AAA, convergent billing and network security. Apart from communication service providers, Inventum also caters to enterprise, hospitality & educational campus verticals.

Headquartered in India, the company supplies products worldwide.

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Inventum announces the general availability of a new affordable MSC-1100 Service Controller for ISP, WISP, Educational Campus, WiFi hotspots and hotzones.

The MSC-1100 is of particular interest for edge deployments where cost is a major concern.

“The MSC-1100 series allows our smaller customers to lower TCO and speed up time to market. The 1100 matches almost all features of larger MSCs, making new deployments easy and scaling to larger MSCs even easier in the future” said Padam J. Singh, VP Engineering.

The MSC line of products now features models from sub 100 Mbps all the way to multi-gigabit models.

Key Features of the MSC-1100

• Session Authentication
• Subscriber Centric Routing & FIltering within each Session
• Session Metering & Quota enforcement
• Subscriber Portal supported
• Dynamic Service Selection capabilities
• Multi-play Service handling

MSC 1100 Service Controller Datasheet

The MSC-1100 configurations start at $900, making them an affordable choice for the small networks. Please contact sales for further information.

In a significant development, Inventum has announced general availability of its path breaking mobile data offload solution.

Designed to ease the burden of ever growing Internet traffic on spectrum and capacity constrained mobile networks, the Inventum solution allows mobile carriers to use WLAN/WiFi infrastructure either owned by them or leased from third parties to seamlessly offload GPRS, EVDO, EDGE, 3G or any type of IP traffic.

“The end-user experience is completely seamless with no requirement of login pages or dialers. All thats needed is a valid SIM card…” said Padam J. Singh, VP Engineering of Inventum.

The solution has already been in pilot for over 6 months with a large Indian mobile carrier having a national footprint.

“The solution was a logical next step for Inventum considering we are the largest OSS/BSS vendor to the WISP market in South Asia. Now our customers like Tikona, Spectranet, Airtel & others can leverage their WiFi networks to offload 2G & 3G network traffic.” said Sachin Mehra, Managing Director of Inventum.

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Inventum is pleased to announce its new Bangalore sales & support office. The office will provide coverage for southern India customers.

Office Address:
Inventum Technologies Private Limited
#765, First Floor, 100 Feet Road,
Indiranagar, Bangalore 560038
India

Tel: +91-80-4038 0530 (Sales only, support continues to be directed to central numbers)

Visit us between 23-25 March, 2010 at South Asia’s largest IT exhibition - Convergence India 2010.

Booth #A1, Hall 18, Pragati Maidan, New Delhi, India. Please visit the show website for more details

India’s largest mobile operator, Airtel has selected Inventum’s UNIFY Service Management Platform (SMP) to comply with recent department of telecommunications (DoT) regulations for central authentication of all WiFi users connected to an ISP network.

The regulation specifically seeks to secure all WLAN end-points, including those at retail subscriber’s homes. Apart from authentication, each subscriber is expected to encrypt airwaves using standards such as WPA2.

“It seems that the regulation aims to curb unlawful use of open WiFi access points” said Sachin Mehra, Managing Director of Inventum.

Under the contract Inventum’s UNIFY SMP shall be used to centrally authenticate all qualifying Airtel broadband subscribers. The solution shall also provide a self-care portal & tools for subscribers to easily configure their systems.

Inventum has delivered similar solutions in the past to leading operators Spectranet & Tikona Digitial Networks.

Inventum announces the release of its new MSG-1605 Multi Service Gateway for ISP & WISP applications.

Designed as a complete ISP-in-a-Box solution the MSG consolidates everything from RADIUS authentication to subscriber management in a single, web managed appliance.

The appliance can be used to manage WiFi, WiMAX, Ethernet, Satellite and virtually any other IP network.

Key Features of the MSG ISP-in-a-Box Edition:
Authentication

• Built in AAA system
• Authenticate each subscriber
• Lock down sessions on MAC,CIDR,VLAN & more
• Web based Self Registration
• SMS based PIN (OTP) generation

Subscriber & Session Control

• Real-time Metering
• On appliance subscriber DB
• Per session bandwidth control CIR/BIR
• In-session QoS scaling & termination
• Real-time session monitoring

Service Policy Management

• Rich Service Plan Options
• Create flat or usage based  plans
• Automatic provisioning on Login
• Time-of-day, day-of-week variance
• Peak, off-peak & discounting

Networking Functions

• Replace half your rack
• Static & Dynamic IP Routing
• 802.1q VLAN, multi-port LAN/WAN
• DHCP, NAT, PAT, DNAT & DNS
• ISP link load balance & failover
• Stateful Firewall
• Policy Routing

Billing & Reporting

• Pre & Post Pay Services
• Pre & Post pay usage quota billing
• Self-care subscriber dashboard
• Detailed usage CDR for each session
• Graphical, comprehensive reports

Monitoring  & Logging

• Real-time alerts
• Alerts, notifications & dashboard
• Lawful logging of subscriber traffic
• Support external syslog server
• Optional Monitoring module for SNMP

The MSG-1605 configurations are priced at US$1499 onwards, making them an affordable choice for the small ISP/WISP customers. Please contact sales for further information.

MSG 1605 Datasheet

The Ministry of Communications, Department of Telecommunications (DoT) India has introduced significant new compliance requirements for all ISPs providing WiFi services.

The regulation goes beyond just public hotspots to include residential and business WiFi applications, extending requirements of centralized management, authentication and provisioning by the ISP even for all customers who may have installed WiFi access points within their premises.

The Key requirements outlined are:

• ISP must ensure that all WiFi access points be encrypted & secured. The list of locations includes:
  • Public hotspots including airports, transportation hubs, schools
  • Hotels, restaurants, guest houses, malls & similar locations
  • Business and offices who use leased lines and install their own WiFi Access Points (APs) also need to be secured
  • Residential & Retail customers who install WiFi Access Points also need to be secured or risk suspension of their Internet access
• Service providers must offer central authentication and tracking system to secure all WiFi end points ensuring each subscriber’s access sessions are authorized and tracked.
  • Records of subscriber records need to be kept for minimum 1 year.
  • Records must also include user metrics for full audit trace

• Identity verification of each subscriber is mandatory and must be accomplished in the following ways:
  • Photo identity based verification using well established address proof documents such as PAN, Passport, Driver License;
  • Personal Identification needs to be copied and retained for 1 year;
  • SMS based authentication of each session/subscriber thereby establishing a direct co-relation between a pre-verified mobile phone and a subscriber.

Avoiding Internet DoT License Suspension requires ISPs to:

• Ensure only secure and authorized subscribers are allowed network access at all wireless end points;
• Accurately ascertain network access and retain records of subscriber activity including IP address & location where / when an authorized user accessed a specified Internet resource;
• ISPs must, upon lawful request, enable interception and tracking capabilities for agencies to track unlawful activity.

Many in the industry feel that this new requirement is the direct outcome of the dreadful 26/11 Mumbai Terror Attacks and other incidents where unsecured WiFi access points were used by anti-social elements.

“Inventum offers a comprehensive solution to comply with this new regulation; Indeed a number of our existing customers are already compliant…” said Sachin Mehra, Managing Director of Inventum.

Key solutions which are offered by Inventum:

1. Centralized Authentication & Tracking solutions
2. SMS based authentication & charging solutions
3. Custom software for 802.1x based compliance at each customer PC
4. Lawful interception solutions
5. Bandwidth management & subscriber policy compliance
6. Billing, rating & charging solutions for:
   • ISP/WISP
   • Hotels, Guest Houses, Coffee Shops
   • Telecom Service Providers
   • Corporate and Campus Networks
   • VSAT Providers

The official notification sent out to service providers talks of various issues and provides a deadline for compliance. For further information please contact Inventum sales.

Inventum and Airtel, India’s largest mobile phone operator have entered into an agreement to use the formers OSS/BSS products in a national roll out of retail broadband. The proposed network will create an estimated 150,000 access locations serviced by a variety of technologies including WiFi™, DSL & WiMAX. Airtel will be using Inventum’s UNIFY Service Management Platform to acquire and bill end customers.

The service to be branded CyberPoint brand will help bring high quality, affordable broadband services to retail customers at major public locations, including public call offices (PCO), cyber cafes & airports.

Commenting on the development, Sachin Mehra, Managing Director of Inventum said “we are excited with the opportunity to create one of the world’s largest public access networks. Airtel will be using our next generation MSC controllers and UNIFY billing solutions to realize their vision.”

A revenue sharing agreement was signed between the parties in 2008 and service roll-out commenced in 2009 with Delhi International Airport being the first site to go live.

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