BryanNetConcepts and glossary
Prerequisites and authority
Confirm the installed edition and release. Use the glossary and deployment record before selecting an installation path.
This glossary defines how terms are used throughout BryanNet’s documentation.
| Term | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Customer | A person or subscriber managed in BryanNet. Customer-facing interfaces may vary by edition. |
| Plan | A package defining access conditions such as price, validity, speed, device/concurrency limits, and potentially a data quota. |
| Subscription | A customer’s assigned or purchased instance of a plan, with its own lifecycle, usage and activation order. |
| Queued subscription | An entitlement waiting for the current subscription to finish. Its validity starts when it becomes active under the stacked-subscription model. |
| Time-based plan | An access plan whose entitlement expires according to time validity. |
| Usage-based plan | An access plan where quota exhaustion or time validity can end entitlement. |
| Router account | RouterOS access credentials/provisioning information used for hotspot authentication; distinct from a website account password. |
| Device | A client device associated with the customer and represented by identifying information used in access/session management. |
| Session | A tracked login or network connection; an administrative login session is different from a router hotspot session. |
| Concurrent-device limit | Limit on simultaneous use, not automatically a ban on changing which devices the customer uses over time. |
| Provisioning | Making the required router-side access configuration match an eligible subscription. |
| Router synchronization | Checking/reconciling BryanNet-managed state against RouterOS state. |
| Desired State | The intended router configuration/preset managed through BryanNet; customizing shipped presets changes the support boundary. |
| Background worker | A scheduled or triggered service responsible for lifecycle or maintenance operations. |
| License edition | The licensed feature/capacity package assigned to the customer installation. |
| Grace period | Limited interval under specified license-verification failure conditions, not an extension of a legitimately expired or revoked license. |
| Webhook | An authenticated notification sent by an external service such as a payment provider to a publicly reachable application endpoint. |
| Recovery key | Secret needed to decrypt compatible BryanNet disaster-recovery archives; must be protected separately from the server. |
Related references: Licensing/edition capability matrix, Background worker and operations reference, Ports firewall and secure connectivity and the network/operations guides. Match configuration fields and screen labels to your installed release.
Related guides
Related guides: Deployment verification and first login, Add and bootstrap a router in BryanNet, Customer journey: register to first connection, Daily operational checks.