Wired/Wireless Network Operations Center

Effortless network user and device management

at your finger tips

Yuh-Rong Leu, Ph.D.

3/11/2008

YesTurnkey Technology, Inc.

Hotspot/Hotzone Solution Provider

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Outline
„ Characteristics
„ Success Stories
„ Architecture
„ Features
„ Demo

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How to Manage All the Users and Devices?

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Characteristics of WiNOC
„ Designed for large scale centralized
network user and device management
„ Wireless Internet Service Provider
„ Wireless campus
„ Wireless hotel
„ Digital surveillance
„ RFID/ZigBee Asset Tracking
„ M-City

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Characteristic of WiNOC (Cont.)
„ WiNOC (Wired/Wireless Network
Operations Center)
„ Web-based user interface
„ WLAN AAA (Authentication, Authorization,
and Accounting)
„ Large-scale location and network device
management
„ By-organization subscriber directory
management
„ RFID/ZigBee Asset Management & Tracking

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Success Stories
„ Management of 109 InterEpoch AGs in 109 elementary and
middle schools of Yi-Lan County, Taiwan
„ Management of 52 InterEpoch APs and 1 InterEpoch AG as
well as wireless AAA in Shu-Lin Middle School of Taipei
County (http://www.slsh.tpc.edu.tw/), Taiwan
„ Management of 35 Cisco APs, 37 InterEpoch APs and 4
InterEpoch AGs as well as wireless AAA (w/ 6400+ users) in
Taipei Commercial College (http://www.slsh.tpc.edu.tw/),
Taiwan
„ Management of 20 InterEpoch APs and 1 InterEpoch AG as
well as wireless AAA (w/ 8000+ users) in National Chang-
Hua University of Education (http://www.ncue.edu.tw/),
Taiwan
„ Management of 26 InterEpoch APs and 1 InterEpoch AG as
well as wireless AAA in Taibei High School
(http://www.tpsh.tp.edu.tw/), Taipei City, Taiwan
„ The WISP edition of WiNOC has been adopted by a Taiwanese
WISP to run hotspot and VoWLAN business in restaurants,
coffee shops and hotel chains.
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Success Stories (Cont.)
„ Billing for Internet access service in Shangri-la Far Eastern
Plaza hotel Taipei (http://www.feph.com.tw/) with Fidelio
PMS integration.
„ IEEE 802.1x PEAP wireless user access control supporting user
roles including teacher, student, employee, guest, etc, in a
military-based hospital and university.
„ Management of 750+ Orinoco APs as well as wireless AAA (w/
2000+ users) in National Taiwan University of Science
and Technology (http://www.ntust.edu.tw), Taipei City,
Taiwan.
„ Billing for Internet access service in the Grand Hi-Lai Hotel
Kaohsiung (http://www.grand-hilai.com.tw/) with PMS
integration.
„ Billing for Internet access service in the MGM GRAND Macau
Hotel (http://www.mgmgrandmacau.com/) with Fidelio PMS
integration.

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Architecture

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Organization, User, Location, Device, Asset

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By-Location Graphic Device Management

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Video Broadcast Application

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RFID/ZigBee Asset Tracking

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By-Organization User Management

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WiNOC Hotel Solutions

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WiNOC Hotel Solutions (HA)

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WiNOC Features (1)
„ Multilingual support. Every user of this system can use
his/her own favorite language.
„ Flexible and definable role-based authorization control.
„ Hierarchically grouping wireless users and devices by
organization and location.
„ Uploading location (or floor) maps and device-specific
images for managing devices graphically.
„ Scheduling management tasks to run regularly or at
specific times.
„ Multiple WiNOC servers can work in tandem (Server
Clustering) for load balancing, data backup, and disaster
recovery.
„ RADIUS roaming support for inter-service provider
roaming.
„ RFID/ZigBee asset management & tracking

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WiNOC Features (2)
„ Building and manipulating device list:
„ The following properties can be manually associated with each device list
item:
• Device ID
• Device Name
• IP Address
• Management Port
• DNS Domain
• RADIUS Shared Secret
• Description
• Location (x, y) coordinates
„ The following properties can be automatically retrieved from devices:
„ MAC Address
„ Firmware Version
„ System Up Time
„ WLAN SSID (Service Set Identifier)
„ Intuitive and powerful device list sorting and searching.
„ Adding device list items by IP address range.
„ Device list import and export.
„ Printing device lists.

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WiNOC Features (3)
„ Network device management
„ Management commands: (In the following “batch” means managing
several devices at a time.)
• Launching Web browser to configure devices.
• Checking device health by Ping, HTTP, SNMP, or TCP.
• Batch configuring device administrator accounts and passwords.
• Batch configuring DNS server settings of devices.
• Batch configuring RADIUS server settings of devices.
• Batch firmware upgrade of devices.
„ Background device health monitoring and anomaly alerting by email
and SMS (Short Message Service).
„ Device status logging.
„ SNMP-based device status and performance statistics reporting and
analysis.
„ Multi-vendor, multi-model, multi-device-type support. Various types
of devices are supported, including wireless access point, access
controller, Power-over-Ethernet switch, router, Webcam, digital
video recorder, video server, RFID/ZigBee reader, etc.

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WiNOC Features (4)
„ User management
„ Automatic user account and password generation for
quickly creating a large quantity of user accounts.
„ User session time, idle time, logon hours,
download/upload bytes、downlink/uplink bandwidth, and
simultaneous logon control.
„ On-line user status monitoring.
„ Flexible and powerful user list sorting and searching.
„ User logon and logoff time reporting.
„ By-location, by-online-time, or by-user-account traffic
statistics and analysis.
„ User account information configuration.
„ Flexible by-organization, by-location billing policies.
„ Flexible pre-paid and post-paid billing support.
„ User list import and export.

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WiNOC Features (5)
„ Printing user lists.
„ “Black list” manipulation.
„ Hotel HSIA (High-Speed Internet Access) service
purchase page.
„ Customizable logon, authentication success,
authentication failure, and logoff pages for captive
Web portal redirect.
„ One-time logon accounts for hotspot service
promotion. This kind of account can only be used to
log on once.
„ Non-stopped accounting accounts support. Once an
account is activated, the available hours of this
account are continuously counted down no matter
whether the wireless user is online or not.

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WiNOC Features (6)
„ Asset Management & Tracking
„ Adding, editing, deleting, and
searching asset accounts.
„ Real-time manifestation of positions
of assets.
„ Tracking position of a specific asset.

„ History of asset positions.

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User List

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Adding an Organization

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Adding Users

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Searching Users

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User Access Log

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Device List

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Searching Devices

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Detailed Device Info

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Device List Printing

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Checking Device Health

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Batch Configuring Devices

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Batch Firmware Upgrade

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Report Wizard (1)

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Report Wizard (2)

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Report Wizard (3)

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Top 10 Online Time Billboard

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User Online Time Proportion

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By-Interval Online Time Distribution

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Text Report

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Server Clustering

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