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🌐 ISP & AAA

PPPoE, RADIUS, OLT, and ISP infrastructure.

📄️ 💳 Payment Reminder Popup

Display a payment reminder popup/image to users whose service has expired, while allowing them limited internet access and whitelisted sites. This is a captive portal approach that intercepts HTTP/HTTPS traffic and redirects expired users to a payment page hosted on an external service. Perfect for ISPs, hotspot operators, or subscription-based networks that need to remind users to renew their accounts. Users can access whitelisted sites (payment processor) but see a reminder image on all other HTTP/HTTPS requests.

📄️ 🌐 Access OLT via Mikrotik

Establish a management connection between your MikroTik router and an OLT (Optical Line Terminal) device via the AUX port. This enables remote management, monitoring, and configuration of your fiber optic network infrastructure. The OLT AUX connection allows you to centrally manage subscriber lines, monitor optical signal levels, and trigger line provisioning from a single control point. Perfect for ISPs managing multi-fiber networks or shared fiber deployments.

📄️ 🔐 Userman (Radius)

Set up MikroTik as a RADIUS server to centralize authentication and billing for PPPoE users across multiple Access Concentrators (ACs). RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) runs on a central server and manages user accounts, bandwidth tiers, and session tracking. Access Concentrators (AC) are high-capacity routers in the field that aggregate user PPPoE connections and query the RADIUS server for each authentication. Users authenticate once, get assigned to profiles (10Mbps, 20Mbps, 30Mbps) automatically, and the AC applies bandwidth limits. Useful for ISPs, WiFi hotspots, and multi-site networks needing centralized billing.

📄️ 🌐 Access Concentrator (AC)

Set up MikroTik as an Access Concentrator (AC) to aggregate multiple PPPoE user connections and authenticate them against a remote RADIUS server. An AC is a field router that concentrates user connections, queries the central RADIUS server for authentication, and applies bandwidth profiles locally. Multiple ACs connect to one RADIUS server, enabling scalable, multi-location ISP networks. Users experience seamless roaming across ACs while maintaining consistent bandwidth profiles assigned by the RADIUS server.

📄️ 🏗️ PPPoE QinQ Multi-OLT

Deploy PPPoE server with QinQ (IEEE 802.1ad) VLAN tagging to aggregate multiple OLT connections through cascaded CRS switches. QinQ encapsulates customer VLANs inside service provider VLANs, allowing isolation of traffic from different OLTs while maintaining scalability. PPPoE server terminates user sessions and dynamically injects inner VLANs, while CRS317 switches handle VLAN filtering and tag manipulation. Useful for ISPs with fiber infrastructure, multiple OLT locations, and large subscriber counts (1000+).