Day One: Dynamic Subscriber Management

by John Rolfe

DAY DYNAMIC SUBSCRIBER MANAGEMENT

This Day One book introduces you to all the fundamentals of the Juniper Networks Dynamic Subscriber Management solution and shows you how to get it up and running in a day. By the end of the last chapter you’ll know what is meant by dynamic and why it’s different from legacy approaches that are so prevalent today. You’ll see how Juniper creates a seamless subscriber management interworking between the MX Series, as a BRAS device, and the Juniper Steel-Belted RADIUS (SBR) server. You’ll be introduced to the new MX configuration hierarchies and how they interrelate with existing hierarchies, and you’ll review the SBR administration GUI and learn about creating service definitions.

This book provides hands-on exposure to actual MX configurations, driving the SBR administration GUI, looking through logs, and learning troubleshooting skills that can assist you in product demonstrations, proof-of-concept testing, and network pre- staging integration activities. So roll up your sleeves, get the lab prepped, and let’s knock this one out of the park.

IT’S DAY ONE AND YOU HAVE A JOB TO DO, SO LEARN HOW
• Identify a lab set up to work along with the samples and chapters of this book.
• Configure the MX for dynamic VLAN interfaces.
• Configure the Steel-Belted RADIUS Server.
• Set the MX dynamic interface profile for the dual-stacked Customer VLAN model.
• Set the MX dynamic interface profile for the single tag Service VLAN model.
• Add AAA to subscriber services.
• Configure dynamic subscriber services.
• Troubleshoot your deployment and use the logs to validate services.

About the Authors
Jeremy Schulman is a Senior Systems Engineer at Juniper Networks who brings over 15 years of networking experience to the company. Jeremy works in the Americas Service Provider market and serves as a technical specialist on MX edge router applications for Dynamic Subscriber Management solutions. Jeremy is also an active contributor to the Junos Automation community and has recently authored This Mastering Junos Automation Programming.

Lenny Pollard has over 15 years of experience in the networking industry. Lenny is currently a Corporate System Engineer at Juniper Networks focusing on the MX and its edge routing and subscriber services features. Before working as a corporate system engineer Lenny was a member of the Juniper Technical Assistance Center (JTAC) supporting the E-Series router. Prior to his time at Juniper Lenny also supported other RAS products at Nortel Networks and was involved with the initial broadband cable deployments in the New England region.

John Rolfe has over 30 years of experience in the networking industry. He is presently a consulting system engineer in the Technologies and Solution group at Juniper Networks, focusing on identity and policy management as well as network management systems. Prior to Juniper Networks, he worked in the VOIP industry with session border controllers at NexTone. Prior to that, he spent seven years in the semiconductor industry primarily in Network Processing silicon with Agere.

111 pages, Kindle Edition

First published December 15, 2011

About the author

John Rolfe graduated from Virginia Tech, The University of Florida, and Wharton Business School. At Wharton, he was the editor of the Wharton Vulgarian. Following his sentence with DLJ, he spent several years working at a private investment fund. In 2001, he co-founded an equity-oriented money management firm, and today manages the firm from a top secret location deep in Vermont. He lives with his wife and two children, and is currently attempting to learn how to produce maple syrup.