How to Structure CPE: Two Approaches¶
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See also
- Network Services
- Add a New Customer
The given examples are not the only possible ways to structure customer premises equipment in Hydra Billing. To choose the final option, please contact Hydra Billing Solutions Inc. technical support.
Hydra Billing provides flexible management of access and services independently of both the technology you use and the types of services.
Before implementing the management of access and services parameters, you should choose how to structure CPE in the system. The approach is chosen depending on the software and hardware configuration of your network, the method of identifying the CPE, and types of services, provided or planned for implementing.
Hydra Billing has several methods of CPE identification:
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using addresses of any type (street, IP, phone numbers);
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using login and password;
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using the binding to the provider equipment (the switch port);
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combined use of all the above.
The method of CPE identification defines the way of accounting equipment addresses. Addresses can be stored either as provider equipment addresses or CPE addresses, or, if not necessary, they are not stored in the system at all. For example, when implementing an Ethernet network with the VLAN-per-customer model, the VLAN is usually specified for the provider equipment, not for the customer's one. And in case of a dynamic IP address assigning, there is no need to specify IP addresses for equipment.
Besides CPE identification, the address and the binding are used to manage the equipment through events. For example, a binding between the network service and its component via specification (the Specification binding type) can be used to set events for access management.
With Hydra Billing, you can use the following approaches to structure CPE:
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Individual equipment approach. According to the approach, the customer is the owner of "their own" equipment. The access management and service parameters management are carried out via bindings of the components of the equipment to network services and/or provider equipment components.
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Network service components approach. Unlike the first approach, the customer owns only a component of a network service. The access management and service parameters management are carried out via bindings of the components to provider equipment components or network services.
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