Cisco Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0 Information Guide
Q&A
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Cisco Prime Access Registrar
General Information
Q. What is Cisco Prime
™
Access Registrar?
A. Cisco Prime Access Registrar is a 3GPP-compliant 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 benefits of Cisco Prime Access Registrar?
A. Cisco Prime 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. What are the major enhancements for Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.1?
A. New features in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.1 include:
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Support for 3GPP compliance
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Translation of incoming RADIUS requests and responses to Diameter and vice versa
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Simplified GUI/command-line interface (CLI) mechanism to easily choose the correct authentication,
authorization, and accounting services required for processing a packet
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Support for EAP-AKA-Prime (EAP-AKA’) protocol
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Quintets to triplets translation that allows EAP-SIM authentication from an EAP-AKA/EAP-AKA’ source
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Session management and query support for Diameter sessions
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Group services support for Diameter
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Tool Command Language (Tcl) and Java scripting for Diameter
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IPv6 support for external database servers, including Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP),
Oracle, and MySQL, and access over HTTP and Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
Q. What are the major enhancements for Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0?
A. New features in Cisco Prime Access Registrar 6.0 include:
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Support for seamless Wi-Fi data offload through the ability to interface directly with the Home Location
Register (HLR) through an M3UA/SIGTRAN interconnectivity layer using EAP-SIM/EAP-AKA supported on
Linux operating systems variant
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Smart grid identity and access management on IPv6 networks. This is achieved using the Elliptic Curve
Cryptographic (ECC)-based certificate validation and also supports TACACS+ authentication and
command authorization and accounting
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Extension of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) support to include 6.0, 6.1, and 6.2
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Extension of platform virtualization support to include VMware 5.0