Patent ID: 8677468

Claim:
A method for an Optical Line Terminal connected to a Passive Optical Network of providing a service to a Client device, the method comprising: discovering a Client device connected to the Passive Optical Network and receiving a hardware identity including a type of hardware equipment for authentication of the Client device; authenticating the client device according to the hardware identity; receiving SIM-authentication information from a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) of the Client device, and forwarding the SIM-authentication information to an Authentication Server for authentication of an end-user; receiving an end-user authentication indication from the Authentication Server; creating a relationship between the Client device and the end-user binding the hardware identity of the Client device and the end-user authentication indication; and activating a service for the client device using the relationship to have the service based (A) on service subscriptions associated with the end-user and (B) on hardware-dependent service definitions corresponding to the type of hardware equipment of the Client device.