As a special service for its passengers, Swiss Federal Railways (SBB) planned to successively equip 80 of the most important Swiss railway stations with WLAN. They were looking for a flexible, easy-to-manage platform that would meet the following requirements:

• WLAN access for passengers, SBB employees and companies based at the station, etc.
• Location-based information portals (timetable, next departures, disruption reports, etc.)
• Covering a wide range of languages
• Local news and marketing opportunities
• Different models with graduated access rights
• Guaranteed legally compliant internet access

This is why the SBB opted for a solution from onway:

• One-off, simple registration (self-service) for passengers
• Landing pages tailored to individual stations with flexible advertising options
• Highly scalable based on increasing usage volume
• Highly available back-end system
• No administrative effort
• Connection to the internal Active Directory infrastructure
• Traceability of the meta data for actuated connections
• Individual landing pages with different information per subnetwork

onway was able to impress the Swiss Federal Railways with its internet access platform mpp, which is now used to register all those who wish to use the SBB WiFi at railway stations. In addition, onway builds and operates the central internet gateway for the SBB hotspots and ensures compliance with legal requirements.

Over 100,000 passengers make use of SBB’s internet access every day.

Since 2004, the team at onway ag has been supporting customers to evaluate, plan, implement and operate their WLAN/Network Access Control solutions, as well as offering ongoing support. To date, the team has successfully completed over 100 projects. We would be delighted to support you with your WLAN project.