AmazingPorts is a

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-based software product customized for use as a

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and billing system (Hotspots). The project started in 2001.

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AmazingPorts is mainly deployed as an access control system in private and public networks. It can be deployed as a single hotspot controller in airports, hotels, private locations and hospitals. It was used in Internet cafes in Europe by 2002 together with

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. It was used for a city-wide

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project in 2004, and Internet roaming in 2002. AmazingPorts was created in 2001 with an initial vision of building free networks. Later the company refocused and provided its technology to network builders. The company implemented

service-oriented provisioning Service-oriented provisioning (SOP) is a technology concept developed during the early 2000s to curb the hyper competition developing in the Wireless Internet service provider (WISP) and ISP space. It refers to the capability of defining and workin ...

in 2002 and was the first to implement 802.11a public hotspots in

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. During 2009 and 2010 the administrative system was updated. Features include: *

Firewall Firewall may refer to: * Firewall (computing), a technological barrier designed to prevent unauthorized or unwanted communications between computer networks or hosts * Firewall (construction), a barrier inside a building, designed to limit the spre ...

* Service Oriented Provisioning *

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* Distributed and/or centralised routing * Fully customisable and language sensitive

or any third party web page *

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(DHCP) server * Integrated

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payments supporting many currencies * Automatic currency updates from the

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* Roles based Administration * Seamless Roaming * Compliance with the anti-terrorist Directive 2006/24/EC

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