The biggest difference between the campus network and the general business network is that users have almost a mobile phone, a notebook, dormitories, classrooms, libraries, and canteens all over the Internet. Once online, WiFi on campus faces not fixed working space for dozens of offices, but real scenes where tens of thousands of people are online, moving at any time, with complex identities (students, teachers, visitors, logistics)."Signal overlay"I don't want to solve it."Who's online, how do you charge, can you trace it back?"And the operation will soon be in trouble.
The campus WiFi Authentication & Billing system is a system that links the authentication, billing, user administration, tentage and auditing of wireless access. It addresses the core issue of the campus's wireless network."It works."Changed"Operational": Certification determines who can access the Internet, the billing decides how to charge it, user management processes account numbers are shut down, camp accounts guarantee that money is reconciled, NATSHEL_LOG_AUDIT allows questions to be traced back to people. The business chain is incomplete if any of the five links are broken.
The differences between the WiFi Authentication & Billing and wired campus
The difference between wireless and wired in Authentication & Billing is mainly in three locations. First, the terminal is not fixed, students use a flat board with their mobile phones today to be able to follow the account number, and support MAC ' s unconscious optimization of this experience so that users can access without using passwords for a second time. Second, there may be different access locations, teaching buildings, dormitories, libraries, AC/AP brands, systems can accommodate many factory equipment, user certifications are constantly running while travelling across buildings. Third, wireless traffic models and lines differ, bandwidth sharing, peak concentration, and billing strategies need to be designed in conjunction with traffic and timing.
NatShell V7 Authentication & Billing is designed around these wireless scenes. It supports the mainstream accreditation of Portal, PPOE, 802.1X, L2TP, which can be used for AC, BRAS, gateway equipment for dozens of domestic and foreign manufacturers such as China, Central, H3C, Sharpay, Cisco; Portal certification more than 4,000 times per second, with a million users on enterprise-level PORTAL single aircraft; supporting local, cloudy, distributed deployment patterns. These capabilities correspond to the WiFi campus."Big, big, multi-manufacturer, multi-area."The reality.
Composition of the WiFi Authentication & Billing system on campus
A system of Authentication & Billing for the Campus Wi. The authentication module is responsible for identifying users and supporting various modes such as account passwords, text messages, micromails, APP, non-sensual, 802.1X; the billing module is responsible for a package and bill strategy that supports year, month, day, time, flow, prepaid, post-pay and fee waiver; the camp module is responsible for charging, bills, refunds, statements and reconciliation; the user self-service module allows students to complete their own registration, queries, renewals and changes in confidentiality; logs and audit modules are aligned with physical name certification and regulatory requirements for marking marks.
These modules are used in the campus landscape. For example, when students register for self-help, they verify their identity by linking to a cartoon or pedagogic data, automatically allocates the default package and immediately open after paying fees; managers can see the operating data on opening accounts, contributions, online numbers at the backstage.
What else does campus scene require?
In the bid parameters of WiFi, campus, common requirements reflect the complexity of the scene: support for IPv4/IPv6 single and double insulation to meet the need for the campus network to evolve towards IPv6; support for WEB, Portal, PPOE, L2TP, 802.1X mixed access with different modes of access from different regions; support for roaming restrictions (by login address, VLAN, SSID, NASIP, NASPORT control) to prevent out-of-account borrowing; support for LDAP unified identity docking; support for MAC unconsciousness; support for BRAS docking; support for timing, flow block counting; support for remaining traffic clearing or down-to-date, use of denials or speed reduction; Support multi-operator interface and user self-help binding; support pre-discussion, worksheet management, sensitive word management, double factor certification, self-service."There's a lot of people, lots of things, everything."The reality.
In the case of school-based fees, V7 supports self-builders and operators to assign two models. Under the home-grown model, schools are fully autonomous, fee-paying strategies are freely adjusted, uniform identification and flat fees are achieved by matching a cascading with a campus, students are registered through mobile Portal pages, self-service contributions are largely exempted from manual services; under the operator-based mode, students use cellular numbers as Internet accounts and a one-to-one line of operator wide accounts, and schools introduce multiple operators for their choice.
Why would WiFi on campus have to have a separate system?
Some would ask, " Can't the AC ' s Portal certification be used for simple scenarios as well? But the complexity of campuses is that tens of thousands of people have different identities for students, teachers and visitors, with different privileges and packages; docking with a cartoon, teaching system, operator AAAA; meeting real name certification and auditing requirements; dealing with routine operational actions such as arrears, shutdowns, refunds; and facing an early start-up season and peaking. These are not fully covered by the ACC built-in Portal system, which requires a dedicated NatSHELL_AUTH_BILING system.
It is a reminder that what the system can do and how far it can be located on site is different. V7 supports the matching of school teachers/student management systems, operators AAAA, public security audit platforms, but the specific correlation effect depends on whether the interface is open to each other, whether fields are mapted and the connecting conditions are in place; performance indicators (number of authentications per second, number of users carried) also need to be validated at project level in conjunction with hardware configuration, network pinging and stress measurement methods, and cannot be separated from direct commitments.
The value of the WiFi Authentication & Billing system on campus is to turn a wireless network into an operational asset: user classification, package design, account traceability, data analysis. For schools, the goals of fee-for-services, joint operations, and real name compliance are built on their ability.