TNP Cloud Connect is a user-friendly, high-quality, free to use wireless service that gives public & visitors access to the internet. The solution is a secure, high-capacity system that utilises existing infrastructure rather than overlaying additional wireless equipment and is compatible with all device types such as smart phones, tablets and PCs.
The service is accessed through an easy-to-use portal and made available to all users through either social media login or text message allowing for an accurate audit trail.
Compliance is achieved by segregating visitor and staff traffic and enabling monitoring for misuse of the service.
The solution is completely scalable and not restricted to a limited number of locations served or access points, safeguarding against additional costs that may arise from usage and capacity limits. It can be delivered using a Cloud based or an on premise authentication and filtering infrastructure allowing flexibility for high availability and truly scalable architecture.

Benefits

• User registration based on social-media authentication (Facebook, Twitter, Gmail) or text message based registration.
• Multiple, customisable landing pages/portals
• Responsive interface for mobile devices.
• Compliant and auditable.
• Requires user identification, acceptance of AUP and logs all accesses from the network.
• Web traffic is filtered to avoid unsuitable content.
• Bulk traffic such as bit torrent can be limited in available throughput to avoid causing network slow-downs for other users.
• Overall traffic rate limits and per-user limits can be configured if desirable.
• Fully monitored.
• Configurable user session times

Core and Supplementary Components

The core component of this service allows the customer to form a secure tunnel from their wireless infrastructure across the internet to the TNP Cloud Connect platform. Included with the service is a high-availability pair of encryption endpoints/CPE to form this tunnel.

Per Site

This element is for the initial setup of the solution including installation and 6 hour fix SLA of a pair of IPSec endpoint devices to establish a secure tunnel from your wireless guest network to our cloud solution. This is priced per site, but normally this would only need to be located at the site of the wireless controller installation which would normally be the datacentre. If wireless controllers are located split across two datacentres, then a HA or multisite deployment would be required. There is no limitation on the number of buildings served or APs.

Portal Charge per 1,000 concurrent users

The solution is sized based on blocks of 1,000 concurrent users and 100Mb of bandwidth usage. The user limit is not a hard limit; our solution will allow more but we can’t guarantee the service if this is exceeded. You can, however, request we set a hard limit if desirable. Additional 1,000 blocks can be added to an existing system as required, so this doesn’t need to be sized for long term expectations.

Custom Portals

Multiple web redirect portals can be configured to be supported, these can have different look and feel to the portal, or different web filtering configurations. These are configured by adding multiple VLANs to the IPSec handover devices allowing the customer to configure SSID or Location to VLAN mapping.
A basic configuration and look & feel to the web redirect landing page (background colour, logo, text) is included, where a bespoke design is required, TNP will provide templates and can work with the customers own web design team.

SMS Charges

SMS usage should be fairly low as normally users would be pushed to use social media logins primarily. SMS credits can be purchased in blocks.

Service Features

• Base capacity of 1,000 concurrent users/100Mb/s of traffic
• Upgradable in blocks of 1,000 concurrent users
• Pair of HA encryption endpoints/CPE
• Fully Managed Service
• Managed installation
• Customer Management Centre – centralised fault reporting
• Service Level Agreement and Maintenance Levels as noted in the SLA below