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Data Sheet 
Cisco Prime Network Registrar 8.2 Technical 
Data Sheet 
Product 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) 
services. The solution consists of four components: an IP address management application, a DNS protocol 
service, a caching DNS service, and a DHCP service. 
For cable providers, Cisco Prime Network Registrar provides reliable, scalable DNS and DHCP services for 
millions of devices and forms the basis of a DOCSIS
®
 cable modem provisioning system. Additionally, Cisco Prime 
Network Registrar plays an important role in service activation for data, voice over IP (VoIP), and mobile services. 
DNS and DHCP are core enabling IP services that are mission-critical in today's service provider and enterprise 
networks. Without a fast, reliable, and secure DNS service, subscribers' broadband Internet access will be 
compromised. If DNS fails, the Internet will fail. In addition, many service providers have created a dynamic service 
delivery infrastructure based on DNS, and service quality and delivery help build competitive advantage and new 
revenue-generating opportunities. High-performing, reliable, scalable, and secure DNS is a requirement. 
DHCP is a core network access technology - every device must be assigned a unique address when connected to 
the network, a virtually impossible task to undertake manually. Given the increasing number of connected users 
and connected devices as well as the growth in demand for network services driven by rich-media applications, 
automating the tracking and controlling of users and devices with a high capacity DHCP server is imperative. 
With the continual deployment of new IP services and technologies and, again, the increasing number of 
connected users and the explosive growth in connected devices, today's complex networks also require a full-
featured, automated IPAM solution. Without a next-generation, scalable IPAM system to plan, track, and manage 
the full lifecycle of IP address space and ease the transition to IPv6, service providers and enterprises risk 
operating inefficiencies and unnecessary costs and delayed service activation. 
Migration to IPv6 
The introduction of IPv6 into network environments presents significant challenges and has added complexity in 
the realm of DNS, DHCP, and IPAM (DDI). Because the migration to IPv6 will take many years, it is important to 
have DDI support for both IPv6 and IPv4. Network operators require DNS and DHCP systems that support IPv4 
and IPv6 as well as a full-featured, automated IP address management solution to plan, track, and manage IP 
addresses and ease the transition to IPv6.