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Data Sheet

Cisco Broadband Access Center for Telco and
Wireless 3.6

Product Overview

Cisco

Broadband Access Center for Telco and Wireless (BAC-TW) 3.6 is a distributed, scalable application

allowing for automated flow-through provisioning of subscriber services and management of subscriber devices.

Cisco BAC-TW provides a centralized and automated platform for service providers to control, monitor,

troubleshoot, and configure residential home gateways and other IP devices, such as femtocell devices and set-top

boxes,

that implement the Broadband Forum’s TR-069 standard.

In the Broadband Forum’s management architecture, BAC-TW acts as an autoconfigurator and communicates with

devices using the CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP). BAC-TW is fully compliant with TR-069 Amendment

1, including support for the Request Download and Factory Reset optional methods as well as any vendor remote

procedure calls (RPCs). BAC-TW has user-defined data dictionaries that allow it to support any device attribute.

Dictionaries for TR-069 (home gateways with or without modems, wireless, LAN ports), TR-098 (home gateways

with quality of service [QoS]), and TR-104 (voice over IP [VoIP]) attributes are supplied.

In addition to the autoconfiguration server functionality, BAC-TW provides device inventory, supports

troubleshooting and device diagnostics, and includes a file server for firmware upgrades.

BAC-TW has a Java northbound API that is consistent with WT-131. In addition it provides extension APIs that can

affect its behavior dynamically as it interacts with a device.

Cisco BAC-TW automatically recognizes devices, assigns the appropriate class of service, and dynamically

creates and generates device configurations. A flexible template language facilitates defining the configuration of a

device in terms of which device attributes are to be monitored and set to which values. The templates can refer to

user- defined properties, which can apply to individual devices or groups of devices. Groups can be either user

defined or built in, for example, all devices of the same type, class of service, or subscriber. This provides a

scalable mechanism for customizing subscriber services. The same language and properties are used to define

rules for triggering firmware upgrades. Bulk changes can be triggered by simply altering a user-defined property or

class of service definition.

As service provider infrastructures increase rapidly in size and complexity, management systems that simplify the

task of operating the network and its services become more essential. Cisco BAC-TW addresses this need by

automating the configuration and provisioning of subscriber devices based on the service provider

’s business

policies. Cisco BAC-TW allows service providers to implement either or both of the following workflow models:

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Preprovisioning: Devices are assigned to subscribers and recorded in advance in the provisioning

application. When subscribers plug them in, Cisco BAC-TW automatically assigns the appropriate service

level and activates them automatically.

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Autoprovisioning: When subscribers self-register for service, subscriber devices are captured and

recorded in the provisioning application. Subscribers are required to register for service before Cisco BAC-

TW configures the device and activates the service.