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## Overview of Subscribers

A subscriber is an object in the directory for which you can configure subscriptions to services. The SRC software distinguishes between types of subscribers, as described in Table 3.

Table 3: Types of Subscribers

Subscriber | Description
--- | ---
Retailers | Internet service providers who either manage their own subscribers or outsource the management of subscribers to a service provider who deploys the SRC software. The SRC software uses retailer objects to group subscribers who belong to an administrative domain.
Residential | Individual subscribers or households—multiple subscribers who use one or more computers and share the same connection. In a household, subscribers can share the same service subscription or can have their own individualized service profiles.
Enterprise | An organization, such as a corporation. An enterprise subscriber can contain site subscribers that represent physical locations or groups within the organization. Enterprises and sites contain access subscribers; an access represents a layer 2 connection between a device at a customer’s physical location and a router that gives the enterprise subscribers access to the Internet and, in some cases, a virtual private network (VPN).
Sites | One or more locations—physical or virtual—within an enterprise that share service subscriptions and physical access to services and that are each managed as a unique entity. For example, the XYM Corporation might have a site in Boston and a site in Toronto. Each of these sites can have its own set of subscribed services.
Device | An SRC-managed device that is used to activate services on nonsubscriber interfaces. It is used primarily to provide integration with applications that use traffic mirroring on JUNOS routing platforms.
Subscriber folders | Objects that group subscribers.

#### Related Topics

- Overview of Subscriptions
- Enterprise Subscriber and Subscription Hierarchy
- Overview of Configuring Subscribers and Subscriptions
- Enabling the Subscriber and Subscription Configuration on the SRC CLI
- Adding Subscribers (SRC CLI)
- Adding Subscriber Folders (SRC CLI)

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