software founded 2001 founder jan eldenmalm headquarters london united kingdom area served worldwide key people raj oruganti fredrik lindgren website amazingports.com amazingports is a linux based firewall customised for use as a firewall captive portal and billing system hotspots . the project started in 2001 with the purpose of creating a scalable solution for commercial and free networks . contents 1 common deployments 2 history 3 features 4 references 5 external links common deployments edit amazingports is mainly deployed as an access control system in private and public networks single hotspot controller in airports hotels private locations and hospitals internet cafe solutions first in europe 1 to offer 802.11 a together with intel property internet management solution metro wifi solutions 2 adsl to wifi roaming 3 history edit amazingports was created in 2001 with an initial vision of building wifi networks . later the company has refocused and now provide its technology to network builders . the company implemented service oriented provisioning in 2002 and was the first to implement 802.11 a public hotspots in europe . during 2009 and 2010 the administrative system was updated significantly . features edit amazingports implements complex features all available in the free version except some api functionality firewall service oriented provisioning nat distributed and or centralised routing fully customisable and language sensitive captive portal or any third party web page dhcp server integrated paypal payments supporting many currencies automatic currency updates from ecb roles based administration seamless roaming 4 compliance with the anti terrorist directive 2006 24 ec references edit amazingports offers first 802.11 a hotspot access in europe press release in german . intel . 5 august 2002 . retrieved 5 june 2010 . mobilt bredband utmed norr m larstrand in swedish . computer sweden . 2004 01 23 . retrieved 2010 06 05 . ryberg jonas 2002 08 21 . providing roaming for adsl customers of telia sonera in swedish . ny teknik . retrieved 5 june 2010 . ellison carol 2003 12 05 . very early seamless roaming . channel insider . retrieved 5 june 2010 . external links edit amazingports home page full features list how to set up a hotspot pricing strategies in hotspots computer sweden nyteknik internet actu cnet v t e routing software operating systems network operating systems linux based entirely free floppyfw freesco ipcop ipfire lede librecmc openwrt zeroshell vyos partly proprietary dd wrt fritz os routeros smoothwall tomato airos & edgeos vyatta extremexos alliedware plus freebsd based entirely free m0n0wall bsd router project pfsense partly proprietary junos proprietary cisco ios extremeware nx os timos vrp routing daemons babel b.a.t.m.a.n. bird gnu zebra openbgpd openospfd quagga xorp other software cjdns click modular router libos captive portal neighbornode advanced direct connect mumble tor related articles comparison of 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