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Data Sheet 

Cisco Prime Access Registrar 

Product Overview 

Cisco Prime

™

 Access Registrar provides solutions for authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA). 

The Cisco Prime Access Registrar solution for AAA is a high-performance, carrier class RADIUS/Diameter  

solution that provides scalable, flexible, intelligent authentication, authorization, and accounting services. 

Service providers face tremendous challenges in deploying and managing mission-critical access services, such as 

AAA. These include: 

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Efficiently serving an increasingly diverse mix of access technologies (and corresponding authentication 

protocols), users, and roaming partners 

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Rapidly delivering new subscriber services for competitive advantage (for example, a new prepaid service) 

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Efficiently managing resources like IP addresses or session limits 

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Keeping up with scalability, performance, and stability demands 

Adding to this complexity is the fact that many service providers have multivendor, heterogeneous AAA 

environments and increasingly complex business requirements. Service providers also are under pressure to 

reduce operating expenses (OpEx) and have to keep up with the needs to centralize data stores and adapt billing 

systems. Operators need a comprehensive access management solution to address these issues. 

In addition, given today’s explosive mobile data growth, network operators are often finding that third-generation 

(3G) networks are not equipped to handle the load on the network, and one key problem relates to signaling. 
Today’s smartphones include applications that can request data from the network every few minutes, and this 

number of radio authentication requests can easily overwhelm the radio access and core network elements 

involved with authentication, encryption, and billing systems. As a result, mobile operators face the prospect of 

needing to continually increase the capacity of network equipment. 

Mobile network offloading over Wi-Fi access networks can offer a cost-effective alternative, and operators need an 

AAA solution that can support this capability. 

Cisco Prime Access Registrar consists of a RADIUS/Diameter AAA server designed from the ground up for 

scalability and extensibility for deployment in complex service provider environments including integration with 

external data stores and systems and multivendor network access servers. Session and resource management 

tools track user sessions and allocate dynamic resources to support new subscriber service introductions. The 

solution supports service provider deployment of access services by centralizing AAA information and simplifying 

provisioning and management. See Figure 1.