BroadBand Internet Billing Solutions for ISPs. Also applies to - "Bandwidth Management Solutions for ISP i.e Internet Service Providers.

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1. Inventum: 

Headquartered in India, Provides Unify SMP, a cloud based system with user license subscription facility as per need basis.


System works in-conjunction with the Provider Edge Server which controls the Bandwidth and provides AAA by communicating with the Central Cloud Server.


The Inventum UNIFY™ Cloud service is a hosted version of the UNIFY Service Management Platform ISP Edition. The solution is ideal for Wi-Fi hotspot venues, ISP & WISP networks looking to target 100 to 10,000 users.
The cloud service is a zero investment, no compromise, quick-start solution that enables network owners to go live in 24 to 48 hours.

Two Editions

Public Cloud

  • Hosted by Inventum in their data center
  • Start with as little as 100 users/subscribers
  • Shared access to a common UNIFY installation with guaranteed privacy of data
  • Full featured AAA that works with Inventum's Service Controller & other approved access controllers (NAS)
  • Prepay & Postpaid Billing with usage metering.
  • Branded captive portal with self-service website for subscribers
  • Integrated shared credit card gateway for collecting payments.
  • Mobile SMS messaging engine for password delivery & other customer care purposes.
  • Use Inventum Service Routers & Controllers or choose from the wide variety of supported routers.

Private Cloud

  • Hosted on customer servers, managed by Inventum
  • Commitment of 10,000+ users/subscribers and 2 year contract
  • Exclusive UNIFY installation on servers at customer's premises – no sharing
  • Full featured AAA that works with Inventum's Service Controllers & other approved access controllers (NAS)
  • Fully customize billing & charging requirements.
  • Branded captive portal with self-service website for subscribers
  • Interface with your own banking & payment gateways
  • Interface with mobile SMS provides for PIN delivery & mobile originated customer workflows
  • Support for advanced mobile data offload integrations, for example EAP-SIM based authentication of Wi-Fi devices in hotspots.

Key Features

  • Subscriber Management Maintain your entire subscriber database in the cloud. Create accounts, organize into groups & hierarchies. The subscriber database is integrated with billing, charging & a self care portal which are also part of the UNIFY Cloud.AAA - Hosted authentication, authorization & accounting system that uses standard RADIUS & complies with all major IETF RFCs. Use Inventum's controllers or other authorized Network Access Server (NAS) to control & meter user sessions. Supports prepay & postpaid billing. Pre-integrated with other modules of the UNIFY. Completely browser managed.
Unify SMP

OLD Control Panel
  • PrePay Charging Charge your customers using real-time, prepay service plans. All plans can support rate-limits, daily/monthly quotas, fair-usage policy controls & more. Automatic disconnection on balance expiry. In-session bandwidth downgrade. Peak & off-peak, day-of-week policies can also be set up on the UNIFY Cloud
  • Voucher System: PIN & one-time-password (OTP) generation & management. Generate voucher series & print or distribute electronically. Track inventory of vouchers including cancellation, usage & unused balances.
  • Manage Resellers: Appoint resellers & link to your cloud account. Each reseller will have their own administrative portal where the parent operator may selectively enable functions including service plans to be sold by reseller. Track every action of the reseller including subscribers & their services.
  • Self – Care Portal: Each customer can login to the cloud service "e.g. my.yourisp.com" & manage their subscriptions, recharge services, check usage, inspect charges & raise support tickets.

2. 24Online: 


24online is a product of Elitecore Technologies which is a part of Sterlite Technologies Limited, a leading global provider of solutions for the high-speed data transmission and power transmission networks.

Authentication, Authorization & Accounting (AAA):

24online comprehensive solution is available with an inbuilt standard RADIUS server which supports *PPPoE, RADIUS, and SOAP protocols. 24online AAA is designed and developed to support WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Dialup/Broadband and IMS with centralize subscriber database and policy management. 24online AAA provides authorization based on IP and MAC addresses and comprehensive accounting based on time, duration, and usage.

Billing Management 

24online billing control solution offers prepaid billing and postpaid billing functions with single invoice facility for multiple services. 24online offers flat, flexible billing packages with peak and off-peak billing supported by pulse-based rating. Internet service providers can offer promotions and discounts as well as launch date; time and usage based packages with carry-forward facilities. It also allows invoices to include service components and to configure it for taxes as well as ancillary charges.

Bandwidth and QoS Management

24online supports committed bandwidth allocation (CIR) and burstable bandwidth allocation (CBR) offering high quality service to high-valued enterprise customers. Variable bandwidth allocation based on hours/days and data usage supports customized services.

Subscriber Management

The comprehensive feature of 24online subscriber management system facilitates service providers to manage unlimited number of users in a dynamic network with user addition/updation/deletion management functions, user migration facilities and user authentication process. 24online’s subscriber management system is highly flexible solution which is pre-integrated with external database like LDAP, active-directory etc to fetch user details, avoid recreation of users.

Access Gateway

24online’s comprehensive access gateway acts as the gateway between the RADIUS and the end user. 24online access gateway basically acts as the front end for all user requests and communicates with RADIUS server for catering the authenticating and authorization requests. 24online access gateway also offers in-built DHCP service along with NAT* (Network Address Translation) features that maps dynamic IP addresses to static public IP. With the help of 24online access gateway basic firewall, you can restrict access to certain IP addresses or domain names, or block certain traffic by blocking several kinds of "Denial of Service attacks". It also prevents any unauthenticated traffic to access the internet network, as all incoming connections from the Internet are restricted using captive portal capabilities. 

Captive Portal Capabilities

Captive Portal enables service providers to create different types of login templates in the system. With the help of 24online captive portal features, service providers can create pool wise, zone wise, SSID wise, location wise captive portal for their subscriber base. It helps user login process more attractive with the help of various features provided and offers an advertising platform for increasing market reach.

Role based Multiple Level Administrations

24online provides differential levels of controls through multiple administrator and user level controls. It enables role-based administration and creation of an administration for each zone.

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3. IPAcct:

IPAcct is a easy to maintain AAA solution with very simple WEBUI. Pricing of this system is based on the number of IP addresses served by the AAA server.

IPAcct Admin Login Panel
IPAcct provides all the functionality 24Online Provides, so I'm skipping copy/pasting the same details again. 
IPAcct Customer Information Portal
IPAcct seems to have a Online Demo System available. You can find that here:

4. Synnefo: 

SYNNEFO Internet Management Software is the ideal tool to manage all aspects of Internet Management, a tool for Internet operators and managers.



Synnefo is a two year old company dedicated into developing software for ISP solutions.The Synnefo IMS is a PHP based Software, which uses Mikrotik's Radius Server as it's backend and does the QOS using Mikrotik Queuing.


  1. Synnefo is capable of Running PPPoE and as Hotspot Captive Portal using the Mikrotik's HotSpot Functionality.
  2. The billing information however is stored in a Central Server running at Synnefo Cloud and works in-conjunction with the Provider Edge Mikrotik Router. 



Other Honorable Mentions:

1. Log2Space
2. Zima Radius

1 comment :

  1. i am intersted in syneffo software plz give me syneffo

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