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Data Sheet

Cisco Prime Access Registrar Technical Data
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Product Overview

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Access Registrar is a 64-bit 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.

In addition, given today’s explosive mobile data growth, network operators are often finding that third-generation

(3G) networks are not equipped to handle the load on the network, and one key problem relates to signaling.
Today’s smartphones include applications that can request data from the network every few minutes, and this

number of radio authentication requests can easily overwhelm the radio access and core network elements

involved with authentication, encryption, and billing systems. As a result, mobile operators face the prospect of

needing to continually increase the capacity of network equipment.

Wi-Fi appeals to many operators as a cost-effective means of offloading large amounts of mobile data traffic while

delivering a variety of new services. It offers these features:

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Widespread existing deployments

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Availability of user devices that support the technology

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Cost efficiency

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Capability to address new users and devices without mobile subscription

(without a subscriber identity module [SIM])

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Globally available spectrum capacity

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Standards availability for integration into mobile core networks

Operators need an AAA solution that can support this Wi-Fi offload capability.