6 Alcatel-Lucent 5750 Subscriber Services Controller
The Alcatel-Lucent 5750 SSC
provides centralized management
control and a data repository for:
•Subscriber administration —
Creation and management of
subscriber accounts, user profiles
and device profiles
• Service administration — Creation
of service profiles and triple-play
services bundles
• Network-policy administration —
Administration and configuration
of per-subscriber and per-service
resource policies in the end-to-end
network
The flexible policy-management
framework of the Alcatel-Lucent
5750 SSC uses this information for
three key policy decision functions:
• Network access control —
Authentication, authorization
and accounting (AAA ) for eligible
subscribers and user devices to
provide access to network-based
services, applications and content,
with the support of 802.1x EAP,
RADIUS and DHCP. The Alcatel-
Lucent 5750 SSC provides full
flexibility to attach user devices
using a range of wireline and
wireless-access network technolo gies, with support for IP address
assignment and management
(IPAM) and the setting of appropri ate security and QoS policies in the
network. The Alcatel-Lucent 5750
SSC supports the ETSI TISPAN
network attachment sub system
(NASS) specifications, pro viding
a unified network access- control
solution for both IMS and nonIMS service environments.
• Dynamic service control — Dynamic
application of network policies,
based on various triggers such as
service or change requests from
customer self-service portals,
network events, timer events or
operations support systems (OSS)
(e.g., customer care ad billing).
This control allows service providers
to support dynamic service or band width upgrades, offer try-and-buy
service specials, redirect subscribers
to a captive portal in case of nonpayment or virus infection, etc.
• Service admission control —
Assurance that sufficient resources
are available in the network to
ensure proper throughput guaran tees (QoS) for the duration of the
session. While resources for alwayson services such as basic HSI access
can be statically provisioned in
the network, resource allocation
for session-based services such
as VoD is done dynamically for
each request. The Alcatel-Lucent
5750 SSC also enables IMS-based
services by supporting the ETSI
TISPAN access resource and admis sion control function (A-RACF).
Through its many open interfaces,
the Alcatel-Lucent 5750 SSC coordi nates and integrates information and
control flows among the subscribers
and user devices, OSS, applicationcontrol infrastructure, and end-to-end
network to streamline operational
processes associated with service
delivery in real time.