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Data Sheet

Cisco Access Registrar Technical Datasheet

Product Overview

Cisco

Access Registrar is a carrier class solution that provides scalable, flexible, intelligent authentication,

authorization, and accounting (AAA) services.

Service providers face tremendous challenges in deploying and managing mission-critical access services. These

include:

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Efficiently serving an increasingly diverse mix of access technologies (and corresponding authentication

protocols), users, and roaming partners

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Rapidly delivering new subscriber services for competitive advantage (for example, a new prepaid service)

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Facilitating different service delivery models such as mobile virtual network operators (MVNOs)/wholesale

and roaming

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Efficiently managing resources like IP addresses or session limits

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Keeping up with scalability demands

Adding to this complexity is the fact that many service providers have multivendor, heterogeneous AAA

environments and increasingly complex business requirements. Service providers also are under pressure to

reduce operating expenses (OpEx) and have to keep up with the need to centralize data stores and adapt billing

systems. Operators need a comprehensive access management solution to address these issues.

Cisco Access Registrar provides a RADIUS/Diameter server designed from the ground up for scalability and

extensibility for deployment in complex service provider environments including integration with external data

stores and systems and multivendor network access servers (NASs). Session and resource management tools

track user sessions and allocate dynamic resources to support new subscriber service introductions. The solution

supports service provider deployment of access services by centralizing AAA information and simplifying

provisioning and management.

Cisco Access Registrar Director provides proxy function and scripting capability for RADIUS. Cisco Access

Registrar Director is intended for use in scenarios such as roaming or those in which a customer is going to use the

solution to perform an intelligent proxy or load-balance the RADIUS packet based on certain conditions or rules.

Product Architecture

At the core of Cisco Access Registrar (Figure 1) is a policy engine that determines processing based on the

contents of the request packet. The policy engine makes the following types of decisions:

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Whether to perform one or more of the following against any incoming packet: authentication, authorization,

accounting, proxy

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Which authentication/authorization data store to perform authentication and/or authorization against.

Supported options are Lightweight Directory Access Protocol Version 3 (LDAPv3) directories (including

Microsoft Active Directory [AD]), Oracle database, MySQL database, and the local embedded database