Cisco Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.0 Data Sheet
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New in Release 5.0
The newest release of Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning (formerly Cisco
®
Broadband Access Center) adds these
significant features and benefits:
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New standards support for DPoE: Business customers need a fast and reliable connection, and cable
service providers are bringing fiber to the premises to meet their customers’ demand. With DPoE, cable
service providers can provision EPON devices without having to install new provisioning infrastructure.
They can now use their existing DOCSIS infrastructure to provision EPON devices.
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New standards support for PacketCable 2.0: Support for the latest PacketCable standard allows for
complete end-to-end IP voice service provisioning.
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Extended reliability: Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.0 adds support for RDU failover, minimizing
service disruption. Note: RDU failover support is only available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) and
CentOS based RDU deployments.
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Enhanced security: Fine-grained role-based access control (RBAC) helps simplify management of user
privileges across complex enterprises and allows access to the critical functions to multiple users while
preventing accidental changes. SSL support for northbound APIs adds an additional level of security.
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New upgrade licensing options: Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.0 is available with the new Cisco
Prime Assured Software Subscription (PASS), which allows prepayment for major upgrades for 1-, 2-, 3-, or
5-year subscription contracts.
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Simplified licensing model: Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.0 simplifies licensing significantly. One
managed device license includes support for multiprotocol devices that support DOCSIS, PacketCable,
eRouter, OpenCable, and more. In addition, it supports all directly connected devices, irrespective of
whether they are IPv4, IPv6, or dual stack.
Table 1 provides details on features and benefits.
Table 1.
Features and Benefits
Feature
Benefit
New Standards Support
PacketCable 2.0 support
Support for PacketCable 1.0, 1.1, 1.5, and 2.0 (IPv4 only) allows for complete end-to-end IP voice service
provisioning and meets all PacketCable security specifications.
provisioning and meets all PacketCable security specifications.
DPoE
With a single platform for DOCSIS provisioning, cable service providers can support EPON deployments and
serve new business market segments.
serve new business market segments.
Redundancy and Performance
RDU failover
In addition to DPE failover, Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning 5.0 supports RDU failover for RHEL and CentOS
based deployments for enhanced reliability.
based deployments for enhanced reliability.
The RDU is the primary server in the Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning system. It performs the following
functions:
functions:
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Manages the generation of all configurations
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Maintains the authoritative database
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Represents the central point through which all API requests must pass
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Supports external clients, OSSs, and other provisioning functions through the provisioning API
Enhanced support for complex
extensions and improved
caching
extensions and improved
caching
Native support for 64-bit processes allows Cisco Prime Cable Provisioning to improve memory management
and provide enhanced support for complex extensions. In addition, improved caching increases the
performance and reliability of the overall solution.
and provide enhanced support for complex extensions. In addition, improved caching increases the
performance and reliability of the overall solution.