Billing, Customer Care and Prepaid
Emerald Management Suite

Comprehensive Billing, Authentication and Customer Care Solution
For the Microsoft Windows NT, Windows 2000 and Linux (Intel) and Solaris
(Sparc) platforms.

Emerald is a highly integrated suite of tools providing billing, customer care, authentication, and much more to organizations around the world. The Emerald Management Suite is an easy to use package designed to meet the needs of those providing network or Internet services, or anyone requiring a robust customer management system. The suite is designed to be powerful, yet efficient, even where management of a large number of users may be required.


The Emerald V5.0 release includes more than seventy-five new
or enhanced features and capabilities including:

. Web-based User and Administration client
. Installation and configuration wizards
. Automated scheduling of billing(Now Invoice Based) and system processes
. Enhanced accounting and reporting
. Flexible user-definable tax structures
. Bill-preview
. Remote customer account query
. Enhanced credit card processing
. LDAP Synchronization
. Improved logging and audit control with an integrated syslog server
. VoIP Billing
. Prepaid
. Advanced CRM capabilities
. Real-time Rating (Prepaid, VoIP)
. Packet of disconnect
 

Air Marshal

	Authentication gateways provide an affordable, simple way for the customer to obtain Internet access without having to install or configure software. Simply plug-in, and your default home page is automatically ’captured’ and redirected to the authentication gateway. After providing a login, password, or signing up for new service the user is allowed access to the rest of the network.
RADIUS Server configuration with fail over support.

Web Interface

  The online view shows users online with accounting and bandwidth information.
 

Working Together

Air Marshal integrates seamlessly with any RADIUS AAA and any database driven
Billing package, for a complete front and back office solution. RADIUS Server configuration with fail over support authentication Gateways can be used in a wide
range of environments where Ethernet technology is used for client network access.

Today the most popular application is controlling access to wireless LANs; however, authentication gateways have been around for quite some time in other settings such
as hotels, cyber cafes, and universities. The authentication gateway utilizes RADIUS
to authenticate clients and account for usage.

This allows the gateway to take advantage of the service providers' current
authentication and billing systems such as controlling concurrent access or
participating in a roaming network.

Air Marshal features:

• RADIUS Authentication and accounting
• Supports unlimited number of backup RADIUS servers
• Java script based CHAP Authentication
• SSL
• Configurable Web Based HTML interface
• Integrated ADMIN web interface
• Configurable session scripts with RADIUS Authorization
• MAC Address / Session tracking


Air Marshal benefits:

• Compatibility with existing Authentication and Billing Systems
• Improved reliability
• Secure passwords without need for SSL encryption or certificates
• Industry standard for encryption and mutual authentication
• Customize the look and feel, link to sign-up server and advertising sites
• Web based configuration, see who's online, real time bandwidth usage
• Use Linux firewall and bandwidth tools to provide separate service types
• Prevents abuse, determine if users are active


System requirements:

• RADIUS server for client authentication and accounting.
• PERL (required for installation)
• Any distribution of Linux supporting glibc 2.1 (Red Hat 7.1 or later requires
  the 6.2 compatibility packages compat-glibc, and compat-libs)
• IPChains
• X86 based CPU

Emerald is provided by IEA Software. This software company is the world's leading provider of billing, customer care, and user authentication solutions for Internet Service Providers (ISP's). With thousands of installations worldwide, IEA Software’s RadiusNT and Emerald Billing and Customer Care software are the market leaders in their segment. Nearly twice as many customers use IEA Software’s Emerald Billing and Customer Care software as compared to the next most popular solution.
RadiusNT was the first implementation of the RADIUS server protocol on the Microsoft NT platform and remains the market leader today.

www.iea-software.com