TAILIEUCHUNG - STUDYMetroFi Deploys Wi-Fi Networks UsingADC's SG-1 Service Gateway

MetroFi is a leader in designing, building and operating Wi-Fi networks. The company partners with municipalities, ISPs and other companies to deliver secure, reliable, high-speed wireless services to entire communities. MetroFi delivers free Internet access services supported by banner advertising from local and national companies. Critical to MetroFi’s business model is revenue generated by advertisements. “The ad banner servers that we use are great at counting the total number of browser pages that they’ve served ads on, but they don’t provide the context of whether that’s 1,000 ads to one user or one ad to 1,000 users,” said John Reilly, Network. | FASTER FASTER FASTER Q LU cn Background MetroFi is a leader in designing building and operating Wi-Fi networks. The company partners with municipalities ISPs and other companies to deliver secure reliable high-speed wireless services to entire communities. MetroFi delivers free Internet access services supported by banner advertising from local and national companies. Critical to MetroFi s business model is revenue generated by advertisements. The ad banner servers that we use are great at counting the total number of browser pages that they ve served ads on but they don t provide the context of whether that s 1 000 ads to one user or one ad to 1 000 users said John Reilly Network Engineer at MetroFi. It makes a big difference to advertisers that they know how many hits they receive by the actual user. This is where the ADC Service Gateway SG-1 came in to fill this requirement. The Situation In late 2005 MetroFi began evaluating service gateways that could provide this type of granular information while also improving network security user experiences and the revenue potential of its public Wi-Fi networks in the California cities of Cupertino Santa Clara and Sunnyvale. CASE STUDY The privately held company needed a product that could support thousands of simultaneous user sessions enhance accounting for their advertisers and handle policy management on a per-user basis. One key requirement was scalability. We needed a large industrial-strength carrier-class box Reilly said. Tens of thousands of people have signed up for our service so we needed something that could handle the number of simultaneous sessions as well as the traffic that those users generate. Although MetroFi s networks provide free Internet access another key requirement was the ability to redirect users to a log-in Web page for registration. We wanted to capture their e-mail address and have a check box where they could agree to terms and conditions of our service Reilly said. Finally MetroFi wanted

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