Cisco Cisco Access Registrar 5.0 Data Sheet
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Data Sheet
Cisco Access Registrar Business Data Sheet
Product Overview
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Access Registrar 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.
Cisco 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.
Figure 1. Cisco Access Registrar Provides Scalable, Flexible, Intelligent AAA Services