New Bangalore office inaugurated
30 April, 2010
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)
Inventum at Convergence 2010 New Delhi
20 March, 2010
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
Airtel selects UNIFY for WLAN Authentication
20 January, 2010
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 new ISP-in-a-Box appliance
2 October, 2009
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.
Inventum enables DoT WiFi Security Requirements compliance
7 July, 2009
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:
- Centralized Authentication & Tracking solutions
- SMS based authentication & charging solutions
- Custom software for 802.1x based compliance at each customer PC
- Lawful interception solutions
- Bandwidth management & subscriber policy compliance
- 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.