Arch Red Guest Server online demo updated

Arch Red Guest Server's online demo has now been updated to a new software version supporting features that are included in in the new editions of Arch Red Guest Server. From now on all the improvements made for Arch Red Guest Server are also included in online demo, in order to receive feedback for interested users and prospective customers.

Ask for your pilot user credentials through our web form.

A Community Networks and Wireless Tampere presentation at TERENA Networking Conference 2008

As a part of my PhD studies and community networks related research I keep a presentation at Terena 2008 Networking Conference in 7B - Who is there? - eduroam session. The session is streamed to the network at 17:00-18:30 Finnish time (UTC+3) and can be watched in real time here. The topic of my presentation is: Utilising eduroam in building wireless community networks. The presentation will be archived and will be available also later in case you absolutely do not want to miss it. :)

Arch Red and Cisco power the NORDUnet2008 WLAN network

Arch Red and Cisco Finland joined forces with CSC to provide an eduroam(tm) compatible WLAN guest network for NORDUnet2008 conference 7th -- 11th of April 2008 in Dipoli, Espoo, Finland. The network was designed by Arch Red and build with Cisco 4400 WLAN controller and 12 AP1130AG access points. This gave the conference participants a choice of WPA/WPA2-authenticated eduroam(tm) network as well as completely open WLAN for unsecured, easy guest access. In cooperation with CSC the WLAN network in conference also supported state-of-art network technologies like IPv6 and multicast with enough bandwidth in radio and fixed network for all conference participants and also for streaming services. Arch Red also provided the RADIUS connectivity to eduroam(tm) WLAN roaming community for secured international WiFi roaming access.

By utilising Arch Red expertise and Cisco hardware, creating and deploying this kind of conference network was efficient and a quick way to provide reliable 2.4Ghz and 4GHz WiFi wireless access for all conference participants quickly.

Arch Red Guest Server version 2.0 available for testing

As a part of building the more usable and reachable networking world, Arch Red also designs and developes products. These products are designed to help the customer to get the best value from their investments to wireless networks and from their participation to community networks.

Keeping this guideline in mind, one of Arch Red's most popular products, Arch Red Guest Server, is now available for on-line trial. If you or your organisation is interested in easy-to-use guest network user management solution, it is now possible to try it out for yourself. New features include:

• multi-role user accounts to create different UIs for different users
• tags to manage created user accounts
• easy calendar functionality to create guest user accounts
  
• improved e-mail functionalities for management of guest users
  

You can get yourself an user account for two weeks on-line trial just by e-mailing basic information about you and your organisation to an e-mail address: sales(at)archred.com. Information needed include:

• Name of the person performing the trial
• Title
• E-mail address
  
• Name of the organisation
• Number of employees
  

Community Networks presentation for TUT postgraduate course

As a part of my postgraduate studies at the Tampere University of Technology (TUT) I had the opportunity to present various community network models and the issues concerning them on Special Topics in Networking course at TUT on 14th of March 2008.

The presentation is available here:
Karri Huhtanen: Community Networks