ICOA Company AuthDirect Unveils New OSS Platform TollBooth(TM) 3.0
November 30 2004 - 10:08AM
PR Newswire (US)
ICOA Company AuthDirect Unveils New OSS Platform TollBooth(TM) 3.0
Jupiter Media Nominates TollBooth(TM) as Finalist for 'Best of
Show' WARWICK, R.I. and SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 30
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- AuthDirect, an ICOA company (OTC:ICOA)
(BULLETIN BOARD: ICOA) , announced today the release of
TollBooth(TM) 3.0, a fully customizable OSS platform for the global
Wi-Fi hot spot and hot zone industry. TollBooth 3.0 has been
nominated by Jupiter Media as a finalist for its "Best of Show"
award. AuthDirect provides powerful, scalable and flexible
management and billing service products to carriers, wireless
operators and WISPs in the global hot spot market. Earlier versions
of its solutions have powered hot spots for customers such as
McDonald's, Barnes & Noble Booksellers, Nordstrom, Taco Bell
and Tully's Coffee and currently serve a wide array of high-traffic
public locations including numerous Metro Zones, airports, major
marinas, RV parks and rapidly expanding national networks with
customers such as Panera Bread and Au Bon Pain. Supported by ICOA's
family of national Wi-Fi companies, TollBooth 3.0 can process over
1 million transactions per day. Its full solution suite enables
rapid service provisioning of large, national deployments, often in
only minutes, and includes superior reporting and monitoring,
enabling real-time decision support. Key features of Tollbooth
include: * Scalable service engine across multiple data centers, *
Modular architecture accommodating "plug-in" resource upgrades as
load increases, * Service platform can scale as well as enable
segmentation of large national networks, * 100% control of the
end-user branded experience, * Consistent service delivery across
all hardware devices and * Open framework allowing total
customization. Kevin Quaintance, General Manager of AuthDirect,
said, "The TollBooth 3.0 OSS platform is the result of five years
of field and customer-tested research and development. Customers
want flexibility, scalability and customization. TollBooth 3.0
provides these key features at a price point and simplicity of
operation that will continue to drive down the costs of both
complex national deployments and specialized Wi-Fi networks."
AuthDirect is showcasing TollBooth 3.0 at the Wi-Fi Planet
Conference & Expo in San Jose, December 1-2 in Booth #227.
Tollbooth(TM) 3.0 is available for immediate deployment. For more
information, please visit http://www.authdirect.com/ . About ICOA,
Inc. Headquartered in Warwick, R.I., ICOA, Inc. is a leading
provider of neutral-host wireless and wired broadband Internet
networks in high-traffic public locations. ICOA provides design,
installation, operations, maintenance and management of neutral,
common-use 802.11x standard WLAN Wi-Fi hot spot and hot zone
infrastructure throughout airport facilities, quick-service
restaurants, marinas, hospitality and hot zone locations. ICOA
currently owns or operates over 650 broadband access installations
in high-traffic locations serving more than 100 million annual
patrons, including the San Francisco International Airport (SFO),
Spokane International Airport (GEG), the Greater Baton Rouge, La.
Airport (BTR), Sacramento International Airport (SMF), Manchester
Airport (MHT), Savannah/Hilton Head International Airport (SAV),
Fresno-Yosemite International Airport (FYI), Killeen Municipal
Airport (GRK), 450 Panera Bread locations, 36 marinas in California
and Virginia, and hot zones in Lexington, Ky. and Rhode Island's
Newport Harbor. For additional information, visit
http://www.icoacorp.com/ . An investment profile about ICOA may be
found online at http://www.hawkassociates.com/icoa/profile.htm .
For more information, contact John Balbach at (401) 352-2368. For
investor relations information, contact Frank Hawkins or Julie
Marshall, Hawk Associates, at (305) 852-2383, e-mail: . Detailed
information about ICOA, Inc. can be found on the website
http://www.icoacorp.com/. An online investor kit containing ICOA
press releases, SEC filings, current price Level II quotes,
interactive Java stock charts and other useful information for
investors can be found at http://www.hawkassociates.com/ and
http://www.hawkmicrocaps.com/. The foregoing contains
"forward-looking statements," which are based on management's
beliefs, as well as on a number of assumptions concerning future
events and information currently available to management. Readers
are cautioned not to put undue reliance on such forward-looking
statements, which are not a guarantee of performance and are
subject to a number of uncertainties and other factors, many of
which are outside ICOA's control, that could cause actual results
to differ materially from such statements. For a more detailed
description of the factors that could cause such a difference,
please see ICOA's filings with the Securities and Exchange
Commission. ICOA disclaims any intention or obligation to update or
revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new
information, future events or otherwise. This information is
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John Balbach, ICOA, Inc., +1-401-352-2368; or Frank Hawkins or
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