Cisco Cisco Access Registrar 5.0 Hoja De Datos

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Features and Benefits

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Supports a broad range of wireline and wireless access technologies like DSL, dial, Code Division Multiple

Access (CDMA), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service

(UMTS), Wireless LAN, public WLAN, WiMAX, femtocell, and others. By enabling standardization on a

common AAA server platform, the solution delivers operational and capital expense savings while providing

flexibility to the service provider regarding choice in AAA.

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Provides support for a wide variety of authentication protocols such as Password Authentication Protocol

(PAP), Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP), and Extensible Authentication Protocols

(EAP), including EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA, EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, EAP-MSCHAPv2, EAP-GTC, PEAPv0,

PEAPv1, LEAP, EAP-FAST) with the ability to extend to others such as POP3 through custom services for

meeting unique requirements.

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Provides extensive subscriber data store support including an internal database and integration with

existing external databases including Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft Active Directory (AD), and Open LDAP

through the use of connectivity mechanisms such as Open Database Connectivity (ODBC), Lightweight

Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), Oracle Call Interface (OCI), and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC).

This integration support is schema independent, simplifying deployment and day-to-day operations,

providing OpEx savings by using existing infrastructure, and helping to support networks with tens of

millions of subscribers.

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Provides scalability to support large service deployments. An external session manager allows tens of

millions of simultaneous active sessions. Additionally, the multithreaded architecture provides performance

that scales with additional CPUs.

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Efficiently manages resource use with real-time session management to track user sessions and

dynamically allocate resources like IP addresses (to support centralized IP address assignment) or

user/group session limits (to support enforcement across access devices, access technologies, and multiple

servers). The session manager also facilitates new revenue streams by helping to enable service

enhancements such as reduced sign-on, personalization, and enhanced video delivery through

consolidation of subscriber and network state data into one common session data store.

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Gives service providers an off-the-shelf, standards-based RADIUS/Diameter server that offers the

flexibility and extensibility previously available only by maintaining internally built versions of public-

domain RADIUS/Diameter software. With extension point scripting (EPS), the solution can be customized to

meet unique business, regulatory, and technical requirements. EPS allows users to interact with request

processing and communicate with Cisco Access Registrar at numerous API points to develop and deploy

custom logic for user authentication, authorization, or accounting.

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Provides broad integration support: Reduces operational costs and speeds service rollout by supporting

integration with provisioning, billing, and other service-management components. A billing interface allows

billing vendors to integrate their systems into Cisco Access Registrar for prepaid functionality, such that

service providers may offer prepaid data or usage-based premium services while reusing their existing

billing system and protecting their investments.

Additional features and benefits of the AAA server include:

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Industry-leading RADIUS performance/transaction rate to handle the busiest networks

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Replication of the internal database, allowing multiple servers to be similarly configured for centralized

management and ease of use