Cisco Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.0 Data Sheet
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Data Sheet
Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning - What’s New in
Release 5.0
Release 5.0
Product Overview
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.
A centralized platform allows cable service providers to control and configure network devices located at the
customer premises, including DOSCIS
®
residential home gateways, cable modems, set-top boxes, and media
termination adapters (MTAs). Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning automatically recognizes devices, assigns the
appropriate class of service, dynamically creates and generates device configuration files, and activates
subscribers - all at extremely fast speeds. This single device management platform supports multiple technologies
including DOCSIS, PacketCable
™
, Ethernet passive optical network (EPON), DOCSIS Provisioning of EPON
(DPoE
™
), OpenCable
™
and satellite.
The Solution Offers
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Reliability: Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning provides high reliability and high availability to meet business-
critical needs and help ensure minimum subscriber disruption. The solution offers multiple levels of
redundancy through its distributed architecture of highly available regional distribution units (RDUs),
multiple distributed device provisioning engines (DPEs) (each of which includes its own data-caching
repository), a Trivial File Transfer Protocol (TFTP) server, and a time-of-day (ToD) server. In addition, the
solution includes support for avalanche protection to limit downtime after network outages. 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.
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Scalability and high performance: Cisco Prime Cable provisioning is the industry’s most scalable cable
device-provisioning system, supporting 50 million plus 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. This supports rapid network expansion (hundreds of
thousands of new devices a day).
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Easy integration into existing service provider systems: A flexible northbound interface promotes easy
and secure integrations with existing service provider systems, such as billing, operations support systems
(OSSs), workflow, mediation, and other customer management systems, through a Java provisioning or
Web Services API.