Broadband Subscriber Management

Thu Apr 23 13:41:52 UTC 2009

Good point.

Oliver Eyre wrote:
> Integration with the billing system is a big one, but remember that 
> not everybody is in control of the DSLAM or whichever device connects 
> to the access network and touches the end user directly. They may 
> instead rely on a wholesale provider for that if they don't have the 
> reach themselves.
>
> From: Larry Smith <lesmith at ecsis.net>
> Sent: Thursday, 23 April 2009 2:07:42 AM
> To: nanog at nanog.org
> CC:
> Subject: Re: Broadband Subscriber Management
>> 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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