FAQs¶
Why use PMT™?¶
Traditional reverse billing models have lead-times of up to 8 weeks when relying on MNOs to configure a reverse billing solution. With PMT™, you are in control at every step, and you can make configuration changes to your campaigns instantly.
PMT™ has many important advantages that are not found in the market today. Choose PMT™ to ensure your API gateway platform is:
- Radically Extensible
- Blazingly Fast
- Platform Agnostic
- Cloud Native
The full set of PMT™ functionality is described in the Main Features documentation.
How do I login?¶
Enter your Username and Password and click “Login” to access your dashboard. The Username and Password are both case sensitive.
For more information, please refer to the Login Guide.
What are plugins?¶
Plugins are one of the most important features of PMT™. Many PMT™ features are provided by plugins. Authentication, rate-limiting, transformation, logging and more are all implemented independently as plugins. Plugins can be installed and configured via the PMT™ Portal.
Almost all plugins can be customized not only to target a specific proxied service, but also to target specific Consumers.
Please check out the broad set of ready-to-deploy plugins in the PMT™ Documentation. Learn how to enable plugins with the PMT™ Portal.
How many microservices/APIs can I add on PMT™?¶
You can add as many microservices or APIs as you like, and use PMT™ to process all of them. PMT™ currently supports RESTful services that run over HTTP or HTTPs. Learn how to add a new service on PMT™.
How can I add authentication to a microservice/API?¶
To add an authentication layer on top of a service you can choose between the authentication plugins currently available on the PMT™ Portal, like the Basic Authentication, Key Authentication, OAuth 2.0 and OpenID Connect plugins.