Provisioning of:

• Virtual Dial access, to enable Virtual ISPs or companies that outsource their dialup.
• Virtual web, ftp and mail hosting.
• Domain registration and setup.
• Billing reports through a client’s administrator interface.

Centralized management: single console to administer remote servers and processes.

Customer self-care: single and branded console by each type of service for client’s administration.

• The automation of users registration to the service;
• Configuration of those users and their service requirements on the respective servers;
• Processing of billing records coming from each server, consolidating them for third party Invoicing Systems.
• Maintenance of a centralized Billing database that allows each user to consult it to know their usage..
• Customer self-care: each client will have a personalized console for administer their users.
• Definition of Main console operators and their rights to operate POPMaster.
• Maintenance of a database of POP locations, where each one has its own servers.
• Automatic server load balancing at provisioning time.
• Completely configurable HTML code.
• Completely configurable error messages.
• Provisioning Manager control: through a console, the operator can control how the provisioning is done through the entire network and retry failed operations if needed.
• Custom outputs to Invoicing System.
• Customizable service matrix
• Configurable data filters by client's administrators to restrict access.
• Audit trails.

POPMaster machine:

• Java Runtime 1.4 or higher.
• Apache webserver.
• Servlets engine.
• Informix Dynamic Server, version 9 or higher, or PostgreSQL 7.x or higher.
• Memory size and disk capacity: dependant of customer database

Rest of servers (Radius, DNS, FTP, etc)

• Platform: UNIX or Windows.

• Authentication support: Radius.
• SMTP Server: SendMail or any command-line enabled SMTP server.
• Web Server: any webserver with virtual web support that can be managed through command line programs to add, delete or modify it. (Apache is an example).
• FTP Server: any ftp server capable of manage virtual ftp areas. (WU-FTP is an example).
• DNS Server: Bind 9.x.
• Token Card Server: Security Dynamics.
• POP3 Server: Unix-like POP3 servers or command-line enabled POP3 servers.
• Other services or 3rd party servers: customizable upon request.