After several months in development, the NetEqualizer network access control module is now available for trial. Here are a couple of the twists that we will be bringing to the industry:

1) Class of Service Specification When Customers Sign Up

2) Group Licenses

This was one of the main requests from Portola Plaza. They wanted to know if we could offer a system that allowed them to sell a group license (limited by total simultaneous sessions) to conference attendees. The other part of the challenge was to maintain a pay-as-you-go option for individual hotel guests at the same time. Well, we have all that in there and it really is pretty impressive!

3) Smooth Service

For those hotels and institutions that have not been able to pull the trigger on something to eliminate their busy hour congestion, they will get the full power of our automated bandwidth controller. Many hotels and institutions have too many irons in the fire to address this issue, and perhaps their management cannot quantify the cost of slow Internet service, so they just live with it. These same institutions love to implement pay for Internet service because that feature is a clear-cut revenue generating device. So, now they will get both -- revenue and smoother service for their paying customers all in one swoop!

4) Reliable Engineering

As many of our customers already know, we are an engineering company that developed a product, not an investor with a business plan that hired an engineering company. What this means is that our roots are conservative and we are in no hurry to put a solution on the market that will cause customers headaches as a result of some greedy business plan and offshore engineering. We do the work here in the U.S. and pay our engineers salaries of U.S. quality. The end result is a smoother process from start to finish. In addition, we are very conservative with our roll out and will not sell more than we can support at one time.

Needless to say, we were very excited to see the control module in action. It's been even better to see that the months of research and development have paid off. For more information about the NetEqualizer network access control module, please visit our Web site at www.netequalizer.com or contact us at 1-800-918-2763 or admin@apconnections.net .

Well, we did it. The new NetEqualizer access control module is now up and running at the Portola Plaza Hotel and Spa in Monterey, California. Of course, we wanted to be there for the maiden voyage.

We retrofitted one of the existing NetEqualzier bandwidth controllers at the Portola Hotel with our network access controller and have been live in their lobby areas without an issue going on 36 hours now.

According to Phillip Pennington of Portola Plaza's IT department, he was not surprised with the results as our NetEqualizer products (they have four of them) have worked flawlessly throughout the complex since being installed 18 months ago.

We have just a few minor customizations to make for their billing needs, and plan to bring up the rest of the hotel in January 2009.

If you were waiting for our latest release with our NAC, now is a good time to call.

The price for any trials next month will start at $2500 and include two hours of consulting. Customers who have purchased our NSS option will be given a credit for the upgrade. Call us for more information.

Note: Customers will need some HTML experience to customize their text pages. Customers will also need to meet basic network configurations to be eligible. Contact us for details at 1-800-918-2763 or admin@apconnections.net .

FISPA, or the Federation of Internet Solution Providers of the Americas, is a made up of companies who provide a whole range of services including Internet Access, Web Hosting, Web Design and an ever increasing number of other services all which use the Internet to facilitate a solution.

So, if you're in the area, be sure to stop by and say hello. For more information about the FISPA and the upcoming conference, click here.