Cisco Cisco Broadband Access Center Telco Wireless 3.8

Computers

Other Custom DHCP and/or TFTP based CPEs

Analog telephone adapter (ATA)

This section describes the basic BAC architecture including:

Regional distribution unit (RDU) that provides:

The authoritative data store of the BAC system. 

Support for processing API requests.

A device detection/configuration/disruption engine, which invokes the various installed 
extensions to determine device types, generate configurations, and support disruption for 
specific device types.

See the 

 for additional information.

Device provisioning engines (DPEs) that provide:

TFTP protocol server

Configuration cache

Redundancy

Time of day server

PacketCable provisioning services

See the 

 for additional information.

Provisioning Groups

See the 

 for additional information.

Cisco Network Registrar servers that provide:

Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP)

Domain Name System (DNS)

See the 

 for additional information.

A Kerberos server that authenticates PacketCable MTAs. See the 

 for 

additional information.

An SNMP agent that provides:

SNMP version v2c support

SNMP Trap support

See the 

 for additional information.

The BAC agent that provides:

Administrative monitoring of all critical BAC processes.

Automated process restart capability.

The ability to start and stop BAC component processes. See the 

 for additional information.