Cisco Cisco Prime Network Registrar 8.0 Data Sheet

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Data Sheet

Cisco

Prime

™

Network Registrar

What’s New in Release 8.0

Cisco Prime Network Registrar Overview

Cisco

Prime

™

Network Registrar

is a scalable, high-performance, extensible solution that provides integrated

Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), and IP address management (IPAM)

(DDI) services.

The solution includes the following integrated components and their respective services - all supporting both IPv4

and IPv6:

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A single DHCP server for device network access

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A single DNS server for IP address translation and service delivery

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A DNS caching server that supports DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC) for added DNS security that is

designed to prevent cache poisoning and other attacks

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A powerful, comprehensive IPAM system to automate and manage all IP address requirements

The Solution Offers

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Speed and scalability: Blazingly fast, the Cisco Prime Network Registrar DHCP server is also the
industry’s most scalable-supporting 50 million-plus devices in a single customer deployment. The recursive,

extremely fast, Cisco Prime Network Registrar DNS Caching Server offers significant acceleration of DNS

query throughput.

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Reliability: The solution offers multiple levels of redundancy with DHCP safe failover and support for

High-Availability DNS (HA-DNS). A patent-pending discriminating rate limiter provides unsurpassed

DHCP avalanche prevention to reduce downtime after network outages.

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Consolidated IPv4/IPv6 address management: Cisco Prime Network Registrar includes

integrated, full lifecycle management for IPv4 and IPv6 and allows dual-stack deployments on a single

server. The full-featured DHCPv6 server provides support for address assignment, both stateless and

stateful configuration, and prefix delegation for full IPv6 address management. The IPAM component helps

ease the transition to IPv6 with the ability to discover and take inventory of IPv4 and IPv6 resources, plan

and model the way an IPv6 network is deployed, and map a current IPv4 network and devices to an IPv6

space.

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Management complexity minimized with centralization and automation: Cisco Prime Network

Registrar IPAM allows administrators to control and monitor DNS and DHCP servers from a centralized

location, providing a single point of data aggregation and delegation. This helps to synchronize information,

eliminate many manual, time-consuming, and error-prone tasks, and reduce complexity and operating

costs. In addition, with the ability to discover, track, allocate, assign, and reclaim IP addresses

automatically, network operators can easily achieve significant efficiencies. Automation also helps eliminate

IP conflicts and configuration errors, reducing downtime of DHCP and DNS services and lowering network

operating costs.