Subscriber rate policies are applied per subscriber. The possible actions are:

• Maximum downlink speed. It is the maximum speed in the downlink direction for all traffic going towards the subscriber’s IP address.
• Maximum uplink speed. It is the maximum speed in the uplink direction for all traffic coming the subscriber’s IP address.
• Under Advanced Parameters, same burst options as for Subscriber Flow Policies. In addition, there is an Automatic Congestion Detection option, that will apply an experimental functionality to detect congestion and select a rate limit automatically (off by default, and not recommended without expert supervision).

These policies are configured in the menu option Configuration->Subscriber Rates, selecting the tab POLICIES.

See in section Subscriber Identification how all traffic from the same subscriber is identified.

Subscriber Rate Policies can also be created dynamically through the BQN external interfaces (RADIUS and REST API). In that case, the policy parameters, and the associations of the policy to the subscribers are controlled from the external interfaces and independent of BQN-configurated rules (configured rules are a fallback for subscribers without a policy assigned by the external interface). The external interfaces can assign subscribers both to rate policies defined though the external interface and to rate policies defined though the BQN GUI.