Cisco Cisco Broadband Access Center for Cable 4.1 Release Notes

To install Cisco BAC 4.1.0.1 on your system successfully, you must meet these requirements:

Solaris: You must install Cisco BAC on a Sun SPARC platform running the Solaris 10 operating 
system with at least 4 GB of memory. We recommend that you use a Sun SPARC multiprocessor 
platform.

Linux: You must install Cisco BAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (2.6.18 or later) using x86 
and 64 bit hardware system. The SELinux should be disabled. 

Network Registrar—You must have Cisco Network Registrar version 7.1.2.1 installed on the 
servers on which you are installing Cisco BAC extensions. 

Administrator user interface—At a minimum, you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0 
(Service Pack 2) or Firefox 1.5 and later.

API client—Ensure that:

You install Java 1.6.0_23 to support the API client in release 4.1.0.1. API clients in versions 
earlier than 4.1.0.1, however, support JRE versions earlier than 1.6.0_23.

The files bpr.jar and bacbase.jar are available in the classpath.

This Cisco BAC release moves away from the proprietary licensing model used previously and 
incorporates support for the FlexLM licensing system, a Cisco license management system. The new 
system provides enhanced reliability and security, ease of use, and flexible licensing options.

Each license in this release is available as a permanent license or an evaluation license.

Permanent—You purchase a permanent license for use in your network environment and to activate 
the specific features for which it is intended.

Evaluation—You purchase an evaluation license to enable functionality for a specific length of 
time.

Do not attempt to deploy Cisco BAC into a fully operational network with an evaluation license. When 
the evaluation license expires, you will not be able to use Cisco BAC to provision the devices in 
your network.