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Data Sheet 

Cisco Access Registrar

: What’s New in Release 5.1 

Cisco Access Registrar Overview 

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 Access Registrar is a carrier class RADIUS/Diameter solution that provides scalable, flexible, intelligent 

authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services. 

The solution offers: 

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Single AAA platform for a broad range of wireless and wireline access technologies for operational and 

capital expense savings while providing flexibility to the service provider regarding choice in AAA. 

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Extensive external user data store support: Includes Oracle, MySQL, Microsoft Active Directory (AD), and 

OpenLDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) through connectivity mechanisms like Open Database 

Connectivity (ODBC), OCI (Oracle Call Interface), LDAP, and Java Database Connectivity (JDBC). Support 

is schema independent, providing maximum flexibility to service providers for simplified deployment and 

day-to-day operations, operational expense (OpEx) savings (by using existing infrastructure), and 

enablement of networks with tens of millions of subscribers. 

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Session and resource management: Real-time session manager tracks user/group sessions and 

dynamically allocates resources like IP addresses (to support centralized IP address assignment) or 

user/group session limits (to support enforcement across access devices, network access types, and 

multiple servers). 

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Extensibility: Extension point scripting (EPS) allows the solution to be extended with custom written 

(in C/C++/Tool Command Language [Tcl]/Java) AAA services to meet unique business, regulatory, and 

technical requirements. 

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Broad integration capabilities: Reduces operational costs and speeds service rollout by supporting 

integration with provisioning, billing, and other service-management components. 

Benefits 

Cisco Access Registrar offers comprehensive RADIUS/Diameter access control services with the following key 

benefits: 

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Industry-leading RADIUS performance/transaction rate to handle the busiest networks. 

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Scalable: An external session manager allows up to 50 million simultaneous active sessions. Additionally, 

the multithreaded architecture provides performance that scales with additional CPUs. 

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Easy to manage: Replication of the internal databases allows multiple servers to be similarly configured for 

centralized management and ease of use and corresponding OpEx savings.