ISPCON Spring 2001, Day Two
Evening Update

BillMax software adds real-time credit card processing and merchant services, Postini announces a no-up-front cost reseller program, and more news.

by Jim Wagner of internetnews.com [April 5, 2001]

With another day comes another round of announcements at ISPCON Thursday, chock full of offerings to benefit the ISP.

BillMax's enhanced billing software
BillMax, a billing software company for ISPs, ASPs and Web hosting companies, announced its partnership with Authorize.Net and Heartland Payment Systems, to give customers a real-time credit card processing and merchant services alternative.

The service gives the ISP an instant credit card gateway for its own customer acquisition efforts and lets ISPs resell the program to its customers for their own Web site.

The software is run on the Unix platform, so ISPs running flavors of Linux, BSD and Solaris can utilize the product. With a licensing contract, ISPs get 90 percent access to the source code, making the product easy to brand and format.

The company offers BillMax free for trial use, up to 100 open accounts.

Postini's pay-as-you-go reseller program
Postini, a Web email reseller for ISPs, announced plans to offer its service with no upfront costs or equipment commitments.

It's a good deal for ISPs who need to offer email and other services like in-line spam and virus filtering, but don't want to drop the cash needed to buy an email server and load it up with expensive software.

ISPs are billed on a per-message, per-subscriber model, payable when the invoice goes out to the customer. ISPs are able to monitor the applications being used by its customers for more customization.

"Within three weeks we had revenue going straight to our bottom line and our technical support staff was relieved from a significant source of user-related issues," said Jack Smith, Internet Xpress, Inc., project manager. "The real bottom line is that our customers are happy and satisfied."

Sound Bytes

• Interlink Networks released its latest Authentification, Authorization and Accounting software effort, AAA RADIUS software version 5.0. New features include: installation and management enhancements, increased fault tolerances and improved performance.
  
  
• Allied Telesyn International earlier this week announced the latest member of its product line of Layer 3 switches, the Rapier G6. The router sport six 1000 Base-T ports and two uplink 1000 Base-T uplinks for advanced local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) deployment.

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