Case Studies

Who is Fiberlink?
Fiberlink provides policy-based remote access solutions for large and mid-sized companies who are faced with the challenges of managing an increasingly mobile and dispersed workforce. Fiberlink provides its customers with access to corporate data and applications from anywhere in the world via dial-up, wireless and broadband all through a single, unified platform that improves the user experience while allowing companies to control costs and increase security.

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What are Boingo Platform Services?
Boingo Wireless is helping carriers and ISPs to get into Wi-Fi with its private-label Boingo^® Platform Services, a turnkey Wi-Fi network service that packages the industry’s leading Wi-Fi client software, the largest aggregated hotspot network and back office services, all under a service provider’s brand. With Boingo Platform Services, a service provider can be in the Wi-Fi business in less than 120 days with very little risk.





Boingo Platform Services includes:

• Boingo Client Software: The industry’s easiest to use client software, private-labeled for the carrier



• The largest aggregated hotspot network: providing a seamless subscriber experience



• Technical support: for the service provider and/or subscriber



• Customer support: including mediation, settlement and billing services

The Opportunity

Fiberlink was looking to add Wi-Fi as a connectivity option to their existing remote access solution offering, which consisted of dial-up and broadband. The company’s focus on layered security and policy enforcement meant that it needed a Wi-Fi solution that could be incorporated with an organization’s IT security policies and address any roadblocks to Wi-Fi deployment enterprise-wide. Wi-Fi is now the dominant global wireless broadband standard, unleashing a flood of low-priced hardware and the installation of millions of private networks and tens of thousands of public “hotspots” worldwide - all more accessible and convenient to the business traveler than dial-up in addition to delivering speeds of up to 100x faster.


Development Issues

The Boingo SDK is a full-featured module that provides wireless hotspot, and future 3G, sniffing, connection and authentication functions for service providers and developers that want to quickly and easily integrate award-winning Boingo functionality into their products.


The Solution

Fiberlink enterprise customers now have one-click access to Boingo's industry leading Wi-Fi hotspots through Fiberlink’s just-announced Extend360^® service.

Boingo Platform Services included access to Boingo's aggregated network of hotspots and a custom version of Boingo’s software that simplifies finding and connecting to Wi-Fi signals, and makes authenticating to public hotspots seamless and easy.

Boingo Platform Services allowed Fiberlink to extend integrated security and management for the enterprise to Wi-Fi access through a single, unified client interface for remote workers, Extend360.


Why Boingo Wireless?

Fiberlink chose Boingo because they could license the Boingo SDK, integrate Boingo's one-click access into their own software solution and gain access to Boingo's global Wi-Fi roaming network of locations with one simple and secure solution, in just 120 days.


Results

Fiberlink and Boingo have successfully shown that Wi-Fi can play an integral part in corporate remote access services and integrate with an organization’s IT security policies to allow for increased productivity, reduced risk and lower total cost of ownership.