Portal aggregation service that maps subcarrier device identifiers to portal addresses where access and authentication requests are redirected and facilitates mass subscriber device setup

摘要

A method in a communication network is provided for connection from a subscriber device of a plurality of subscriber devices to a respective network portal device of a plurality of network portal devices. The method comprises a portal aggregation server (7) storing a plurality of network portal addresses associated with a plurality of network portal devices (12, 13, 14) and a plurality of subscriber identifiers each of which identifies one of the plurality of subscriber devices. Providing a). The method further includes the step performed at the portal aggregation server, receiving a connection request from the subscriber device to connect to the network. The request includes the subscriber identifier associated with a subscriber device. The method includes mapping a received subscriber identifier to the network portal address and redirecting the connection request to the mapped network portal address.