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Broadband solutions for Wireless Home Gateway

When a leading provider of broadband solutions wanted to create a solution that would act as Bridging Firewall for Wireless Home Gateway, NeST was their first choice. The objective was to build a firewall and bridge that goes between broadband and Wi-Fi. Target environment is hotels and offices.

NeST Solution

The primary function of the product was to provide adequate security to wireless clients and to prevent theft of service for the service providers.

  • Protection from theft-of-service and denial-of-service attacks for ISPs (potential primary customers of the product).
  • Privacy for the clients (end-users).
  • Security for the wireless clients from the common risks associated with access to Internet.

The developed product allows authorized wireless client to do the following:

  • Login to the network, by supplying a user name and password.
  • Access machines in the local network (both wired and wireless) according to his user settings.
  • Access the Internet from behind a firewall.

The software shall allow an administrator (the wireless ISP) to do the following:

  • Maintain account information of the clients
  • Manage access control lists (ACL)
  • Change the firewall settings (which machines and applications to allow)
  • It runs on a Pentium machine on RedHat Linux platform.

Benefits to Customers

  • Faster time to market
  • Reduced development costs
  • Assured quality and reliability