BOINGO LEVERAGES PORTAL SOFTWARE FOR INNOVATIVE WIRELESS BROADBAND INTERNET SERVICE.Portal Software Portal Software was founded in 1985 as Portal Information Network, one of the first ISPs in the San Francisco Bay Area. It was founded by John Little. The company offered its own interface through modem access that featured Internet email. , Inc. (Nasdaq:PRSF PRSF Presidio of San Francisco (US National Park Service) PRSF Peoples Republic of San Francisco ) has announced that Boingo Wireless Boingo redirects here. For the Hoodwinked character see Boingo (Hoodwinked). For the rock band, see Oingo Boingo. Boingo Wireless is a private American company that provides wireless communication services, specifically Wi-Fi. , Inc. has implemented Infranet, Portal's market leading billing solution for mobile service providers. Launched in January, Boingo's nationwide wireless service gives business travelers high-speed Internet See broadband. access through hundreds of "hot spots hot spots acute moist dermatitis. " in major airports and hotels around the country. Boingo makes it easy for users to locate and connect to public and private Wi-Fi networks, a common standard for wireless broadband High-speed wireless transmission of data. What is "high" speed is always a changing number. Wireless systems are typically slower than land-based, wireline networks. In the past, wireless broadband started at 250 Kbps, whereas land-based broadband was generally considered to start at T1 Internet access. Boingo selected Portal because the company's Infranet software platform provides flexibility and accuracy in the tracking and billing of new services and customer usage -- important components to support Boingo's business model. The flexibility of the Portal solution enables Boingo to rapidly respond to market dynamics by developing and delivering promotional offers based on the latest customer usage patterns and competitive offerings. "Portal helped us launch Boingo rapidly and offer customers several unique pricing plans -- an important feature in the highly competitive wireless market," said Niels Jonker, vice president, engineering, Boingo Wireless. "Infranet has proved to be a strong platform for reliably managing the complex billing and remittance scenarios inherent to a wireless broadband ISP (1) See in-system programmable. (2) (Internet Service Provider) An organization that provides access to the Internet. Connection to the user is provided via dial-up, ISDN, cable, DSL and T1/T3 lines. ." Boingo developed its billing infrastructure with the Infranet solution, which allowed the company to create and support multiple service and pricing models, maximizing appeal of the service at launch. The open API architecture of Infranet simplified integration with the other elements of the Boingo technology environment. "The architecture of our Infranet platform enables Portal to support a wide range of wireless services, including Boingo's innovative reseller model for Wi-Fi services," said Steve Sommer Sommer is a surname, from the German and Danish word for the season "summer". It may refer to:
Portal Software's Infranet is a modular, platform-based solution that allows service providers to rapidly develop, price, and provision services while strategically managing customer usage and billing. Infranet offers a scalable, flexible, and highly available architecture, as well as open APIs and integration with industry-leading applications. |
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