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 1.2.2 (Solaris Sparc/x86 and Linux supports this version).
• Apache webserver.
• Servlets engine.
• Informix Dynamic Server, version 7.3x.
• Memory size and disk capacity: dependant of customer database

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

• Platform: UNIX or NT

• Authentication support: Radius (Ascend/Livingston/Cisco/Lucent).
• SMTP Server: SendMail or any command-line enabled SMTP server (ISOCOR, Post-Office, etc).
• 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 8.x.
• Token Card Server: Security Dynamics.
• POP3 Server: Unix-like POP3 servers or command-line enabled POP3 servers (ISOCOR, Post-Office, etc).
• Other services or 3rd party servers: customizable upon request.