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Broadband Subscriber Management

Subject: Broadband Subscriber Management
From: lesmith at ecsis.net (Larry Smith)
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:07:42 -0500
In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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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.

-- 
Larry Smith
lesmith at ecsis.net

Follow-Ups:
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  - From: cmaurand at xyonet.com (Curtis Maurand)
- Broadband Subscriber Management
  - From: oliver.eyre at cirruscomms.com.au (Oliver Eyre)

References:
- Broadband Subscriber Management
  - From: sherwin.ang at gmail.com (Sherwin Ang)
- Broadband Subscriber Management
  - From: cmaurand at xyonet.com (Curtis Maurand)

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