Nomadix Access Gateways - Page 242

ACCESS GATEWAY
230 The Subscriber Interface
The Authentication module is responsible for ensuring that when subscribers log in to the
system they are correctly identified. It can identify subscribers in many different ways. For
example:
 Based on their hardware (MAC) address.
 By validating their user name and password.
 By looking up subscribers on a local (flash) database.
 By looking up subscribers on a remote database.
The Authentication module can support user name and MAC address
authentication simultaneously.
Subscriber Login Subscriber Management
Accounting
Billing
Authentication
Internal User Database
MAC
Internal Web Server
(on flash for login pages)
External Web Server
(for login & portal pages)
Internal Web Management Interface
Internal Accounting Log (AAA)
PMS System
Credit Card Server
Internal User Database
Authorization Table
Billing Mirror Server(s)