Cisco SCE2020-4XGBE-SM - Chapter 9 Managing Subscriber; What Is a Subscriber?

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Chapter 9 Managing Subscribers
Information About Subscribers
What is a Subscriber?
In the Service Control solution, a subscriber is defined as a managed entity on the subscriber side of the
SCE Platform to which accounting and policy are applied individually.
Table 9-1 lists several examples of subscribers in Service Control solutions.
Table 9-1 Subscriber Examples
The Subscriber Subscriber Characteristics
Managed Entity Subscriber (Entity) Identified By
DSL residential
subscriber
DSL residential user IP address The list of IP addresses is allocated by a
Radius server
Cable residential
subscriber
Cable residential user IP address
The list of IP addresses of the CPEs is
allocated dynamically by a DHCP server
Owner of a 3G-phone
that is subscribed to
data services
3G-phone owner The MS-ISDN, which is dynamically
allocated by a Radius server.
A corporate/enterprise
customer of the service
provider
The corporate/enterprise and the
traffic it produces
The set of NAT-ed IP addresses, which
are allocated statically
A CMTS The CMTS and the broadband
traffic of the Cable Modem users
that connect to the Internet
through the CMTS
• A range of IP addresses
• A group of VLAN tags
VPN-based subscriber
(all or part of a VPN)
• MPLS/VPN-based
subscriber
• VLAN-based subscriber
• A set of IP addresses or ranges in a
certain VPN
• A VLAN tag or range of VLAN tags
• All the IP addresses of a CE router,
defined by a BGP community over a
VPN
SCMP subscriber SCMP subscriber A combination of the following three
items:
• IP address or range
• Manager-Id of the SCMP peer device
• Subscriber ID including the GUID.
Each subscriber is assigned a Manager-Id
based on the management entity that
created the subscriber. The possible
managers are the SM, CLI and an SCMP
peer device.