Product category: Networking Hardware
News Release from: Performance Technologies
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 17 March 2005
Alliance to secure wired and wireless
networks
Performance Technologies has teamed up with Open System Consultants (OSC) to provide GSM operators secure authentication, authorisation and accounting for wired or wireless networks.
Performance Technologies has teamed up with Open System Consultants (OSC) to provide GSM operators secure authentication, authorisation and accounting for wired or wireless networks The solution will combine OSC's Radiator authentication server with Performance Technologies' SEGway signalling gateways
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 4 Jul 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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"By teaming with Performance Technologies, we can offer wireless carriers authentication options to better serve their customers and provide a new revenue stream in Wi-Fi hotspots", said Mike McCauley, Chief Technologist for Open System Consultants.
"Performance Technologies' field-proven software and experience in worldwide, carrier-grade solutions enables them to provide the solid SS7 connectivity our customers require".
OSC's Radiator server supports user authentication for wireless and wired LANs using nearly 60 different types of authentication methods.
Based on the Radius protocol, this solution allows users to authenticate access to a wireless LAN network using a mobile phone subscriber identity module (SIM) card.
Using Radiator and its EAP-SIM support, operators and carriers can construct complete SIM wireless authentication and billing systems that interoperate with the existing worldwide GSM mobile phone authentication and billing systems, enabling a simple and seamless experience for roaming wireless LAN users.
Performance Technologies' suite of SEGway signalling gateway solutions, designed to support the convergence of SS7 and IP networks, offers unparalleled performance and functionality for wireless and VoIP networks.
Performance Technologies' signalling gateway for subscriber authentication (SGSA) is based on the company's popular signalling software and is a value-added addition to the company's industry-leading SEGway product family.
The SGSA enables public wireless Internet hotspots to easily authenticate users based on the GSM SIM card, over the SS7 network.
"In looking to establish an EAP/SIM partner, we sought a Radius system with a proven record of installations and wide range of client software connectivity that would best align with our signalling software", said Normand Glaude, Managing Director for Performance Technologies' Signalling Systems Group.
"We have built successful EAP/SIM systems with OSC on behalf of mutual customers in the past, and we are confident this collaboration will benefit both companies".
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