User's Manual Part 3
Release8OperationsGuide
Issue2,November2007 Draft5forRegula toryReview 387
23 MANAGINGBANDWIDTHAND
AUTHENTICATION
This section provides a high-level description of bandwidth and authentication
management in a Cyclone network. For more specific information, see Cyclone
Bandwidth and Authentication Manager (BAM) User Guide or the Last Mile Gear Cyclone
Prizm User Guide.
23.1 MANAGINGBANDWIDTHWITHOUTBAM
Unless Prizm or BAM is deployed and is configured in the AP, bandwidth management is
limited to applying a single sustained data rate value (for uplink and for downlink) and a
single burst allocation value (for uplink and for downlink) to every SM that registers in
the AP.
23.2 BANDWIDTHANDAUTHENTICATIONMANAGER(BAM)
SERVICESANDFEATURES
Prizm or BAM enables you to perform the following management operations on SMs:
• Change the key that the SMs need for authenticating.
• Temporarily suspend or reinstate a subscriber.
• Set burst size and data transfer rate caps for an SM or group of SMs.
• Use licensing to uncap an SM or group of SMs.
• List all ESNs that are associated with a specified VLAN ID.
• Associate or dissociate an SM or group of SMs with a specified VLAN ID.
• Set VLAN parameters.
• Toggle whether to send those VLAN parameters to the SMs.
• Set CIR parameters for low-priority and high-priority channel rates.
• Toggle whether to send those CIR parameters to the SMs.
• Toggle whether to enable the high-priority channel in the SMs.
23.2.1 BandwidthManagerCapability
Prizm or BAM allows you to set bandwidth per SM for sustained rates and burst rates.
With this capability, the Cyclone system allows both
• burst rates beyond those of many other broadband access solutions.
• control of average bandwidth allocation to prevent excessive bandwidth usage by
a subscriber.
All packet throttling occurs in the SMs and APs based on Quality of Service (QoS) data
that the Prizm or BAM server provides. No server processing power or network
messages are needed for packet throttling.
QoS management also supports marketing of broadband connections at various data
rates, for operator-defined groups of subscribers, and at various price points. This allows
you to meet customer needs at a price that the customer deems reasonable and
affordable.