Profiles classify the traffic, and, when used by policy rules, determine the policy applied to a subscriber or a flow. There are different profile types, according to the properties being used for traffic classification. The current version supports the following profile types:

• Interface Profile: identifies the flows or subscribers whose first data packet comes in through a network interface listed by the profile.
• VLAN Profile: identifies the flows or subscribers whose first data packet uses a VLAN tag within the set of VLAN tags (or the absence of any tag) part of the profile.
•  Policy Rate Profile: identifies subscribers by the name of their rate policy. The profile may contain patterns with wildcards. For example, a rate policy profile containing pattern “premium-*”will match subscriber traffic with rate policy “premium-gold” and “premium-platinum”.
• Internet Profile:  identifies the flows involving an IP address on the Internet side, contained in the set of IP address ranges part of the profile. Optionally, Internet-side ports can also be specified (e.g., port 80).
• ‍Access Profile: identifies the flows or subscribers involving an IP address on the Access side, contained in the set of IP address ranges part of the profile. Optionally, access-side ports can also be specified.
• DPI (Deep Packet Inspection) Profile: identifies the flows that have a DPI domain that matches one of the domain patterns(signatures) part of the profile. There are a set of pre-defined DPI signatures, which include the signatures of popular applications (like the most important video-streaming apps or the most common software updates).
• ‍Throughput Profile: identifies all the flows which were created while the total downlink traffic through the BQN was above the threshold specified by the profile.

Profiles are configured in the menu option Configuration->Profiles.