Broadband Subscriber Management

Wed Apr 22 16:07:42 UTC 2009

On Wed April 22 2009 11:01, Curtis Maurand wrote:
> I don't understand why DSL providers don't just administratively down
> the port the customer is hooked to rather than using PPPoE which costs
> bandwidth and has huge management overhead when you have to disconnect a
> customer.  I made the same recommendation to the St. Maarten (Dutch)
> phone company several years ago.  They weren't listening either.   That
> way you can rate limit via ATM or by throttling the port administratively.

Most likely because most RADIUS systems can be tied fairly easily directly
to the billing/payment system which enables and disables (adds/removes)
the customer from radius for payment/non-payment and therefore does
not require any "technical" support to turn on/off customers.

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Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net