Re: Broadband Subscriber Management

[Curtis Maurand <cmaurand () xyonet com>]

As opposed to SNMP and a script that would shut the port down via SNMP 
when the customer is disabled?

Larry Smith wrote:
> 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.
>
>