Cisco Cisco Prime Network Registrar 8.0 Data Sheet

 

 

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Cisco Prime Network Registrar supports the IPv4 to IPv6 transition and allows dual-stack deployments on a single 

server. 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) and 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 

Figure 1.    Cisco Prime Network Registrar IPv4 and IPv6 Management 

 

Features and Capabilities 

Cisco Prime Network Registrar provides the following features: 

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Fast and scalable: A blazingly fast DHCP server, Cisco Prime Network Registrar has the ability to assign 

more than 47,000 DHCP leases 

per second. The solution is also the industry’s most scalable DHCP 

server - 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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Reliable: Cisco Prime Network Registrar helps address unique challenges in large-scale deployments of 

DHCP and DNS by offering multiple levels of redundancy with DHCP safe failover, support for High-

Availability DNS (HA-DNS), and IPAM database replication for backup of IPAM data. 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. DNS64 functionality allows access to the IPv4 

Internet and servers for hosts that have only an IPv6 address. Cisco Prime Network Registrar IPAM helps 

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