Advanced Wireless LAN Guest Portal

Meet the challenge of providing secure guest access to your network

Guest access is often one of the first applications implemented by organizations deploying a WLAN. Guest access provides visible interaction with partners and visitors and makes a positive impression about the organization. A good guest access system will, first and foremost, provide reliable and high-performance access to the Internet without requiring the guest to negotiate countless hurdles reconfiguring his PC in order to connect. There are numerous productivity gains to be realized from providing guests, contractors and temporary workers with instant access to timely business information. Offering secure Internet access enables these users to VPN back to their corporate or home network to utilize email and other resources not stored on their laptop or mobile device.

A guest access network must separate and segregate internal and guest traffic to provide iron-clad security for the organization’s LAN and servers. Since guest access is provisioned on the same WLAN and LAN infrastructure as that carrying internal traffic, this is a significant challenge, and one that is directly addressed by Aruba’s Amigopod identity-based security system without adding a further administrative load to already overstretched IT departments.

Simple and Flexible Guest Portal Creation

Aruba’s Amigopod provides an easy-to-use visitor management solution that delivers secure wireless network access for guests as well as for employees with personal mobile devices. Guest access is provisioned via a web page so that a receptionist can easily and quickly add a visitor’s individual guest account and issue the guest with a unique, trackable, password. Alternatively, accounts can be pre-provisioned and matched to guests at registration. The captive portal pages used for guest login may be customized with company logos, backgrounds, acceptable use policies and other text. Provisioning of credit card access and billing systems is enabled through integration of third-party applications.

Once registered, Amigopod is able to deliver account login credentials securely to users via SMS text message or email. Accounts can be set to expire automatically after a specific number of hours or days and can be restricted by time-of-day, location, bandwidth, and others.

Identity Based Security

By enforcing identity based access to the network combined with Aruba’s comprehensive security policy controls which take account of identity, device, location and role, overall network security is assured by:

Separating guest traffic from all corporate traffic.
Allowing only authorised guests onto the network.
Controlling user access based upon their identity, device, location and role. For example, contractors may be granted limited access to some corporate resources without getting full network privileges.
Automatically disabling access after pre-defined periods.
Blacklisting guests attempting to exceed their permitted access.
Providing an audit trail for who used the network, when they used it and how they used it.

All this is achieved without the need for experienced IT resources.

Benefits

Amigopod manages secure role-based access for thousands of concurrent users. It can dramatically reduce operating costs and complexity and reduces bottlenecks by giving corporate IT staff has one less thing to worry about.

Aruba’s portfolio of cost-effective Guest Access , Access Points, Controllers and Management solutions fits all business needs whether you need a small, self-contained deployment or have a network of thousands of users in diverse locations. Take a look at the summaries below to see how.

Ensign offers a service guarantee on any wireless network that we design, install, and commission giving you a risk free upgrade and total peace of mind that your wireless network will deliver the service and performance that you need now and in the future.

Contact Ensign today to discover options how introduce secure guest access to your network to support today’s and tomorrow’s business requirements.