Weimar becomes Germany´s largest public hotspot

Weimar/Germany is DRIN – “DRIN” is the name for Weimar’s wireless internet. Within the next month 70 public Wi-Fi- access points will cover Weimar free of charge.

Inhabitants and visitors will find a free and secure mobile internet access in most areas of interest. After a hassle free registration, people may use configuration services to automatically configure encrypted connections on laptops and wireless handheld devices using an access software or receiving a configuration SMS (auto provisioning). Therefore users simply have to enter there username and password. Untroubled and safe surfing on the Internet is no longer a mystery.
The official start of the project has been marked by the Lord Mayor of Weimar, Stefan Wolf. Apart from the technical partnership local media-partners are also involved, especially in providing multimedia content for the mobile net.

The public and the industry play an active role. This refers to the net infrastructure as well as to the contents on the geodata-based media portal. The infrastructure is built according to the well-known community principle. The software ZONOS provided by the Cuculus GmbH allows to safely provide an encapsulated hotspot within a public Wi-Fi access point, while protecting the privacy of all parties involved. “The guarantee of privacy for the one who provides the hotspot is new in the market. The software comes directly with the access point. There is definitely no need for technical knowledge if someone wants to actively contribute to this network. It is just one click”, stated René Böringer, Managing Director of the Cuculus GmbH. It differs from the common approaches in that the authentication of the mobile user and the management of the encapsulated hotspot are done by an Internet service provider. Users can operate and set up their own private network with the same device. Media partners provide and link information, audio and video sequences dealing with different fields of interest in the city to locations. In the future the experience gained by the consortium in Weimar will help providers to built up an almost area-wide Wi-Fi network and run it profitably.

More information about the project and the partners can be found at
http://www.weimar-ist-drin.de [in German only]

The list of companies involved can be found at www.weimar-ist-drin.de under “Konsortium” .

More information about Cuculus technology is provided under http://www.cuculus.net.

Cuculus is a pioneer for multi-party-platforms for embedded devices. The company has developed ZONOS®, an operating system which uses lightweight but highly secure independent zones.

The Cuculus platform technology used on DSL routers, residential gateways or IADs enables a secure deployment of ISP’s services and applications in private customer devices. Cuculus is therefore an enabler for the new markets of provider-driven in-house service applications.
The Cuculus technology integrates an outstanding communications and security framework and allows for an easy re-use of a huge number of already existing applications, services and service delivery platforms.
Our customers include ISPs, WISP, innovative third party service providers as well as device manufacturers.

http://www.cuculus.net

René Boeringer (Managing Director)

Cuculus GmbH
Ehrenbergstrasse 11
98693 Ilmenau
GERMANY

Tel: +49 36 77 / 66 85 30
Fax: +49 36 77 / 66 85 39
E-mail: r.boeringer(at)cuculus.net

This release was published on openPR.