Cisco Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.1 Information Guide

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Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning’s high-speed performance supports rapid network expansion; a single

RDU server in conjunction with the appropriate number of DPE groups can support a sustained rate of

hundreds of thousands of new devices a day.

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Lower operating expenses: Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning increases operator efficiency, reduces

manual errors, and helps ensure minimum service disruption to subscriber revenue generating services.

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Easy integration with existing service provider systems: A flexible northbound interface promotes easy

and secure integrations with existing service provider systems, such as billing, operations support systems

(OSSs), workflow, mediation, and other customer management systems, through a Java provisioning or

web services API. This, in turn, reduces operational costs and time to market for new services and helps

accelerate revenue.

Q. Who should deploy Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning?

A. Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning is designed for use by cable service providers seeking an automated means

of provisioning services and managing subscriber devices supporting the CableLabs

standards such as

DOCSIS, OpenCable, and PacketCable. Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning can be easily extended to support

other devices as well. Any service provider planning to deploy and support DOCSIS 3.0, PacketCable 2.0,

and EPON customer premises equipment (CPE) will benefit from using Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning.

Q. What equipment does Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning manage?

A. Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning is a standards-based device management application that supports multiple

technologies including DOCSIS 1.0, 2.0, and 3.0, PacketCable 1.0, 1.1, 1.5, and 2.0, OpenCable 1.0, and

DPoE 1.0. Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning supports all end-user CPE devices that adhere to these standards,

including residential gateways, set-top boxes, cable modems, MTAs, and Ethernet passive optical network

(EPON) devices located on the customer premises.

Q. What are the new features introduced in Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.0?

A. New features include the following:

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Support for the PacketCable 2.0 standard

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Support for the DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON 1.0 standard

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Fine grained role-based access control (RBAC)

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Security enhancements

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Web services API (Simple Object Access Protocol [SOAP] based)

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RDU failover

Q. What are the new features introduced in Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.1?

A. New features include the following:

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Greater control, error handling, and logging capabilities for the RDU Configuration Regeneration Service

(CRS)

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PacketCable 2.0 IPv6 support (including dual-stack support)

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Dual stack support for CableLabs devices, including cable modems, Packet Cable 2.0 digital voice

adapters, and set-top boxes