Cisco Cisco Access Registrar 5.0 Merkblatt

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Cisco Access Registrar 5.1

General Information

Q. What is Cisco

Access Registrar?

A. Cisco Access Registrar is a RADIUS and Diameter server that is designed to meet the specific authentication,

authorization, and accounting (AAA) needs of service providers, including deployment, performance,

scalability, resilience, and extensibility requirements.

Q. What are the major enhancements for Cisco Access Registrar 5.1?

A. New features in Cisco Access Registrar 5.1 include:

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Extension of WLAN authentication mechanisms to the Home Subscriber Server (HSS): Cisco Access

Registrar now supports Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) and Universal SIM (USIM) authentication for data

access against the newer generation subscriber database, HSS, through a Diameter interface.

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Extended Oracle support: Includes native Oracle database interface support.

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Support for the Solaris ZFS file system: Provides data integrity, support for high storage capacities, and

more.

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Support for stored procedures on an Oracle server.

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Platform support: Solaris 10, RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 5.3/5.4/5.5, femtocell support, and

virtualization support; Oracle VM Server for SPARC (previously called Logical Domains, LDoms) and

VMware ESXi 4.1.

Q. What are the benefits of Cisco Access Registrar 5.1?

A. Cisco Access Registrar delivers a full-featured, customizable RADIUS and Diameter server that focuses

service providers on delivering revenue-generating services. With one common platform, the solution

simultaneously supports both RADIUS and Diameter protocols, allowing operators to protect investments in

legacy applications and services and deploy new services supported by Diameter. The solution is fast and

scalable to support large service deployments and supports multiple access technologies, multiple subscriber

data stores, and broad integration with external systems.

Q. How widely is Cisco Access Registrar deployed?

A. Cisco Access Registrar is a mature, carrier-class RADIUS and Diameter server that has been deployed

worldwide by more than 200 service providers, both large and small, since 1998.

Q. What are the basic components in Cisco Access Registrar and how are they implemented?

A. Cisco Access Registrar basically consists of UNIX daemons and a very fast internal database. The internal

database stores the AAA configuration and can also be used for storing user profiles. Cisco Access Registrar

consists of three main functional units:

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Policy Engine: A robust and extensible method of imposing per packet policies

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AAA server: A RADIUS server designed from the ground up for performance, scalability, and extensibility

for deployment in complex service provider environments