Firewall & Hotspot Gateway For Single & Multi Located Universities/Colleges/Schools
The dynamism of the education system raises a need for regular internet connectivity in universities, colleges, schools, coaching centres etc. The rising education levels persuade the educational campuses to provide a secure and stable high-speed network services for the students and faculties.
The gadget world attracts the students and teachers to carry various devices like mobile phones, laptops, tablets etc. Therefore, this brings the institution into trouble to meet the bandwidth demand of these devices. The major concerns of the institutions include bandwidth distribution, user access control and security measures. The institutions wish to offer different consumption liberties to students and teachers.
The institutions require wired or wireless connectivity throughout the campus from classes to labs, libraries, etc. Such high-end requirements of the institutions with certain constrains and specifics need to be handled by service providers which are not only cost-effective but easy to reach and highly efficient.
Features
1Interface/Access Management
DWARPAL Access Management allows universities/Colleges to give internet to their students/faculties/staff member via Broadband/Lease Line connection. With Multiport device, it facilitates to manage multiple ISP links and LAN subnets individually. Admin can create VLANs over physical interfaces for better security. Link Aggregation of WAN ports can also be done for MPLS links.
2User/Visitor Management
It offers hospitals/clinics to cluster their users into groups like staff, doctors, management etc. and apply different policies. Also enables the facility to import past data of users for internet access, which inturn makes migration easy. DWARPAL User Management is relient with both fixed and roaming users (like visitors). While creating/importing fixed usrs one can restrict users based on OS, device type etc. and can send created credentials to user's no and email on single click. In addition one has the option to block, activate and dynamic switch a user from one group to another.
3Bandwidth Management
Bandwidth management is among one of the most crucial feature that education institutes demand. Feature to limit data and speed usage along with the time makes the user managment quite easier. Universities can allot different speed and data usage policies to user based on their profile. This helps them to make users utilize internet for essential things only.
4Content Filtering
Education institutes express dire need to limit the kind of content in their LAN network. Content filtering offers the freedom to institutes to block particular predefined or manually created Website, IP, Port, Keyword, Application categories to restrict students from accessing unwanted content. With DWARPAL , time based blocking helps universities/colleges to manage things more prominently.
5Network Management
This simplifies the network management of large campuses with high strength of users. IT Managers can create NAT Rules to define preferences of ISP line for each location, establish remote access via Port Forwarding, bind specific IP to MAC, Create Routes, LAN Rules, DNS Forwarder, FQDN and Bypass Sites etc.
6Load Balancing
Load balancer manages two or more WAN networks and delivers the combined bandwidth output in the network. Institutes can allot the traffic preferences based on Active-Active or Active-Passive mode so that bandwidth utilisation takes place in the same way. DWARPAL smoothly manages the fail over and diverts the traffic.
7Anti-Virus
DWARPAL Anti-Virus scans a packet on HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, SMTPS, IMAP, POP ports and blocks the file based on their type. Large database of signatures with automatic update via cloud ensures the continues increase in security. System also stores the threat logs with action.
8Anti-Spam
Anti Spam is key madates when it comes to security. DWARPAL Anti-Spam regularly scans inbound and outbound mails. It also provides the facility to white list/black list an ip address in real time with MIME header check.
9Voucher & PMS Management
Create and generate different policy based vouchers for guests and hand over the printables if they are in campus for short stays. Extensive Voucher Management of DWARPAL also helps institutes to generate event based vouchers for Conference rooms/Auditoriums. Guest's self registration aligns tracking their activities with corresponding voucher id. DWARPAL can also be integrated with a PMS software to automatically generate User ID-Password and send them over the visitor's mobile no.
10Intuitive Captive Portal Capabilities (Location Aware)
For each corresponding subnet institutes can have different captive portal (More than 10 templates are available combined of fixed and roaming user). DWARPAL gives the facility to personalise the login page and customise the captive form fields. Our design responsiveness eliminates the need to create different captives for mobiles and laptops. You can even allow a particular user internet in one location and restrict in other.
11Accouting/Billing
Proper Accouting/Billing Internet usage is certain times required in campuses. With DWARPAL the billing based on exact data usage maximizes the revenues. Both prepaid and postpaid billings are possible.
12Social Media Engagement & Advertisement
13Zero Configuration - Networking
DWARPAL makes it easy for guests to use the internet. Users can directly connect their devices - laptops, mobiles without configuring any network settings and access the internet.
1Virtual Private Network
Educational organizations that have multiple branches comprehensively require site-site or remote vpn to connect. DWARPAL supports SSL, PPTP, IPSec, L2TP VPNs with encryptions (3DES, DES, AES, Twofish, Blowfish and Serpent) and hash algorithms (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2) to establish a more secure connection.
2Surfing Logs
Making and storing guests surfing logs to handle easy tracking. DWARPAL is the only appliance in its segment which gives inbuilt logs storage facility for a complete period of 1 year along with searchable feature. This reduces the cumbersome of taking backups bimonthly or monthly and enhances security.
3Reporting and Monitoring
IT Managers can get complete reporting of all the essential parameters in highly user friendly. This makes it easy for them to keep track of the network. Section wise Analytics of Internet, User, Content Logging, Social, Threat and System simplies and provide in-depth data about each. Appliance also has a unique features of Activity Timeline to track all the major activities happening across the network in most lucid way and troubleshoot the arising issues.
4AP/Device Management
5Feedback Management
Universities/Colleges can collect the course feedback by creating multiple forms and sharing the link with students over email. They can get the consolidated response and export them in csv. In addition, analytics is provided from the point of improvization.
6SMS Gateway
DWARPAL makes you available the pre configured SMS gateway with unlimited authentication SMS. DWARPAL also leases out the option to configure a custom gateway to send promotional messages to guests. It also facilitates you to manage out different templates.
7Intrusiom Detection and Prevention System
IDPS is necessary to detect and prevent attacks from within and outside the network. DWARPAL has 25000+ default signatures along with the auto update feature. Its IPS system suggests what is Recommended or to allow or drop packets.
8Alert Management
Alert Management helps universities/colleges to alert their users so that end moment hurdles dont come the way. It helps to alert users when a certain data limit is consumed/over. It also notifies them for renews and voucher expiries.
9Seamless Roaming
User convenience is what matters to us most. DWARPAL offers seamless roaming for users so that they dont have to authenticate when they move from wired network to wireless network of premise or vice versa.
10User Session Management
This allows to set session time for every user group so that network works smoothly. It also records the session history of every individual users which can be searched out based on the Id/Name/Mac/IP/No.
11Third Party Integration
DWARPAL team can always be requested out for Third Party Application Integration.
12Highly User Friendly GUI
What makes us stand apart is our User Friendly GUI. Its so simple and elegant that even a non technical person can govern and operate it. DWARPAL gives the english translation of every network configuration you set. Now universities dont need a special network/tech guy to operate it. And hence HR cost can be cut out.
13Personalised Development
DWARPAL Team can be requested out for personalised development of a feature.