Contor 2000 - Cosmin Damian
Contor 2000
Accounting and management for Internet Cafe
( Cybercafé)
Cosmin Damian & Mihai Dumitru
The growth of the internet users market back in 1996 combined with the expansive broadband infrastructure generated the request for a way of controlling an emerging business – the Internet Club or Internet Café; the managers were confronted with a series of problems as differentiated prices for services, security, real-time reports, controlling the employees, preventing the unauthorized access to their network and so on; they needed a coordination enabled tool in order to regain control of their newly founded business.
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The “Contor 2000” package was designed to answer challenges and bring solutions for the management of the Internet Café; with small adjustments has been used to control other heterogeneous network setups; by the year 2001 the program was running in over 100 locations in the western Romania.
The initial package suffered a lot of changes in both its core design and in the frontend. The main architecture remained the same – a core service performing various routing and firewall tasks, controlled by a small server-side client component with the ability of translating primary requests from a web interface.
Due to the modular approach, several different implementations existed, adjusted to customer requirements and various netwok setups.
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