Cisco Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.0 Information Guide
Q&A
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Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.1
General Information
Q. What is Cisco Prime?
A. The Cisco Prime
™
portfolio of IT and service provider management offerings empowers organizations to more
effectively manage their networks and the services they deliver. Built on a service-centered foundation, Cisco
Prime supports integrated lifecycle management through an intuitive workflow-oriented user experience -
providing A-to-Z management for IP next-generation networks, mobility, video, and managed services.
Q. What is Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning?
A. Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning is a distributed, highly scalable, and reliable solution for management of
cable subscriber devices and automated flow-through provisioning of the subscriber services that run on
those devices. Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning provides a centralized and automated platform for service
providers to control and configure residential home gateways, cable modems, media termination adapters
(MTAs),
set-top boxes (STBs), digital voice adapters (DVAs), and more. The solution automatically recognizes
devices, assigns the appropriate class of service, dynamically creates and generates device configuration
files, and activates subscribers. Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning provides a single device management
platform to support multiple technologies including DOCSIS
®
, PacketCable
™
, OpenCable
™
, and DOCSIS
Provisioning of EPON (DPoE
™
).
Q. Why are Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning Versions 5.0 and 5.1?
A. Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.0 is the evolution of and an upgrade from Cisco
®
Broadband Access Center
(BAC) and continues to be the solution for cable service providers that require provisioning and device
management services. Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.0 and 5.1 add significant new capabilities and the
security, redundancy, and standards support required to manage increasingly complex cable networks.
Q. What benefits can be expected from deploying Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning?
A. Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning provides the following benefits:
●
Reliability: The solution provides high reliability and high availability to meet business-critical needs and
help ensure minimum subscriber disruption. It offers multiple levels of redundancy through its distributed
architecture of highly available regional distributed units (RDUs), multiple distributed device provisioning
engines (DPEs) (each of which includes its own data-caching repository), a TFTP server, and a time-of-day
(ToD) server. In addition, the solution includes support for avalanche protection to limit downtime after
network outages.
●
Scalability and performance: Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning can support millions of devices in a single
customer distributed deployment.
The solution uses multiple distributed device management and caching engines to balance processing of
device requests and help ensure high performance. A single DPE can support as many as 2 million
devices, and multiple DPEs can be combined into groups to provide redundancy, load sharing, and
disaster recovery.