Hospitality Gateways--aka Hotspot Gateway

Hospitality gateways are used to control almost every aspect of a guest user’s experience in hospitality environments. These gateways are extremely versatile and can be used in coffee shops, hotels/motels, multi-tenant units (MTUs), campuses, airports, sports venues and even for municipal wireless applications. A gateway’s primary job is to capture the guest users Internet browser session as soon as they attempt to access the Internet. The guest is then redirected to a customized web page where they either pay to browse the Internet via a credit card or electronically accept terms and conditions of use to mitigate owner/operator liability. But gateways have become much more sophisticated these days.

A highly configurable gateway, such as those by Nomadix, can not only capture and redirect user sessions, but they can also mange the users throughput, block inter-hotspot attacks, manage users sessions, and more. With multiple ways to generate revenue, hotspot or hotzone gateways pay for themselves by enabling services such as:

• Traditional "pay to surf" method where each guest user must enter a credit card in order to surf the web. The gateway allows the set up of multiple plans to fit customer access requirements.
• Portal page advertising allows hospitality mangers to generate revenue from local services and cross-sell hotel services. Every guest is automatically directed to a portal page before they access the internet. Nomadix allows you to customize this series of five pages.