Cisco Cisco Prime Home 5.1 Release Notes

The following enhancements have been made to Cisco Prime Home 5.1.2.

The new Bonded WAN Diagnostics feature allows the Service Provider to see information such as Link 
Speed and Signal to Noise ratio (SNR) on both Bonded lines - upstream and downstream. DSL Statistics 
on various types of errors such as blocks and bit errors are also displayed.

The bulk of the Bonded WAN information is provided in the Status page, typically located under the 
Account section in the left navigation panel of the CSR portal. Clicking on Local Network will also 
provide you with bonded WAN speed in the Status section of that page.In the event of customer 
complaints of system performance or low speed, this new feature allows you to identify the problem and 
move to a speedy resolution.

Previously, Prime Home WiFi settings only allowed the Service Provider to select minimal WiFi settings 
such as enable WiFi, choose a channel, change SSID name, etc. 

Prime Home now supports viewing and configuring Multi-band WiFi settings; i.e. WiFi devices that 
operate at either the 2.4GHz or 5GHz frequency band. Depending on the band, you can choose different 
modes - which vary in the speed that they transmit data. More than one network can be configured for 
each frequency band. 

The Service Provider can set and modify primary and guest wireless networks for each radio on the 
device, depending on its capabilities. A guest network differs from a primary network in that it does not 
provide access to other LAN devices on the network. For both a primary and guest network, an SSID 
name and security level can be configured. Different Channels and Channel Widths can also be 
configured. 

The following figure displays the new WiFi networking feature in the Prime Home Interface.