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Overview of Subscriptions

A subscription is an object in the directory that represents an enrollment to a service. Each subscription provides access to a particular service for that subscriber. A subscriber can have multiple subscriptions to a service. Table 7 shows the type of subscriptions you can configure for each type of subscriber.

Table 7: Allowable Service Subscriptions for Different Types of Subscribers  
Type of Subscriber
Service Subscriptions You Can Configure

Retailer

Outsourced service subscription

Value-added subscription

Subscriber folder

Value-added subscription

Enterprise

Access subscription

Value-added subscription

Site

Access subscription

Value-added subscription

Access

RADIUS subscription

Value-added subscription

Residential subscriber

RADIUS subscription

Value-added subscription


If the service provider uses the SRC directory to hold all their subscriber data, residential subscribers must subscribe to primary services—such as Broadband Remote Access Server (B-RAS) through Point-to-Point protocol (PPP) or B-RAS through Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)—before subscribing to a value-added service.

Enterprise subscribers must subscribe to an access service (that is, a leased line), either directly or in a site or subscriber folder that is subordinate to the enterprise Without an access subscription, a service session cannot run in the network.

Retailers can subscribe to outsourced services if a service provider sources the access out through tunneling (Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol [L2TP] or PPP Terminated Aggregation [PTA]).


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