Where is the telephone demark. Access? You're a CLEC, put a small DSLAM in there; Zhone? Or consider Ethernet over power line. Apartment complexes of any size can get really ugly with RF in a hurry. Wireless absolutely? I don't know about the Meraki hardware mentioned, but seem to remember they "phone home" to a central server, but a mesh system could work.
At 01:16 PM 8/20/2009, you wrote: >Hi All - > >I've looked through several of the archives and wasn't finding an >answer quickly, but I will apologize if this has been discussed >before. > >Quick history, we are a facilities-based CLEC and provide phone and >broadband internet over a dedicated fiber-optic network. Through out >our service area (three small business communities) are many apartment >buildings. It is easy for us to provide phone service to those units, >but Internet is another story as the buildings are not wired for >Internet. The cost of pulling wire is too expensive and too time >consuming. > >We are looking for a way to place centrally located access >points/wireless routers in these apartments to connect the tenants. >Easy enough if we wanted a wide-open connection - but the tough part >comes in trying to manager user accounts. We need away that would >present a log-in page, and then upon entering valid credentials >authenticated back against something like a radius service, they would >gain access to the internet. > >To clarify, we are not looking for a hosted application, but more of a >home-grown solution. We have all of the components for billing, which >will automatically create a radius account and e-mail, we have online >billing and web-mail - the only part is the is missing is the web >authentication piece. > >Thanks for listening >Jeff Yette >Sales Engineer >Slic Network Solutions >(www.slic.com) > > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >WISPA Wants You! Join today! >http://signup.wispa.org/ >-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > >WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org > >Subscribe/Unsubscribe: >http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless > >Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
