Cisco Cisco Prime Home 5.2 Getting Started Guide

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At-A-Glance
What Is the Value of Cisco Prime Home?
Cisco Prime™ Home is a server and cloud-based 
network management platform based on the Broadband 
Forum’s TR 069 suite of protocols to provision and 
manage in-home devices. The solution discovers 
detailed information about all connected devices in the 
home and provides visibility for both service providers 
and subscribers through easy-to-use web portals. The 
platform also includes a flexible applications engine that 
provides a means for the service provider to offer new, 
high-value consumer home network applications.
What Problems Does It Help Solve?
The proliferation of Internet-connected devices and 
the explosion of video and data traffic are driving 
complexity in the home network. Increasing numbers 
of new devices need to be installed and provisioned, 
and multiple devices running multiple applications often 
create resource contention within the home. These 
factors trigger expensive support calls and truck rolls 
for the service provider, and automating and simplifying 
management of customer premises equipment in home 
networks has become mission critical.
This creates both challenges and opportunities for 
service providers. While they are looking for ways 
to lower operating expenses and improve customer 
satisfaction, they are also looking to quickly deliver new 
and differentiated services and drive new consumer 
revenue opportunities.
Cisco Prime Home
The TR-069-compliant autoconfiguration server 
provides management for multiple devices,  
including residential gateways, IP set-top boxes,  
next-generation converged IP set top boxes, and more.  
Remote device management capabilities include  
zero-touch provisioning, configuration and configuration 
updates, software upgrades, monitoring in home 
bandwidth usage, and real-time problem diagnosis and 
troubleshooting of common home networking problems 
such as Wi-Fi, firewall, and basic broadband connectivity 
of devices in the home.
Cisco Prime Home abstracts detailed device information 
into the cloud and provides it to both service providers and 
subscribers through easy-to-use web portals — rendering 
the information actionable. An analytics engine allows 
service providers to create professional reports and charts 
for a wide array of subscriber and device information.
Cisco Prime Home also helps enable the quick rollout of 
new, high-value consumer services such as managed 
Wi-Fi, managed firewall, and parental control applications, 
including dynamic content filtering and time blocking.
The solution is available for onsite deployment in a 
service provider network or may be hosted by Cisco.
What Are the Benefits of Cisco Prime 
Home?
•  Reduced operating expenses with rapid problem 
diagnosis: Cisco Prime Home provides the service 
provider with the ability to diagnose and resolve 
in home service problems before they affect the 
subscriber, thereby reducing expensive truck rolls and 
consumer support calls.
•  Higher customer satisfaction: New consumer 
services and increased subscriber self-management 
capabilities, including the ability to troubleshoot home 
network problems more easily, help drive higher 
customer satisfaction and retention. 
•  New monthly incremental revenue: The solution 
helps enable service providers to generate new 
monthly incremental revenue from subscriber services 
including parental control applications.
•  Reduced administrative overhead: The solution helps 
accelerate and automate the mass management of 
home devices for reduced administrative overhead 
and additional operational savings.
•  Actionable information: Real-time trend and usage 
reports provide service providers with data about 
their subscribers that can help drive additional churn 
reduction through proactive analysis, preventive 
action, and new business model creation.
About Cisco Prime
The Cisco Prime portfolio of enterprise and service 
provider management offerings empowers IT 
organizations to more effectively manage their networks 
and the services they deliver. Built on a service-centered 
foundation, the Cisco Prime portfolio of products 
supports integrated lifecycle management through 
an intuitive workflow-oriented user experience. The 
portfolio of Cisco Prime solutions for service providers 
provides A-to-Z management for IP next-generation 
networks, mobility, video, and managed services.
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