Cisco Cisco Broadband Access Center for Cable 4.0
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Release Notes for Cisco Broadband Access Center 4.0.1
OL-16643-01
New and Changed Features
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COMCAST-SP-RNG-200-ProvOSS-I04-070102
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OpenCable specification OC-SP-HOST2.0-CFR-I13-070323
New and Changed Features
These sections briefly describe enhancements in the 4.0.1 release and new or modified features in the
4.0 release that also apply to the 4.0.1 release:
4.0 release that also apply to the 4.0.1 release:
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Enhancements in BAC 4.0.1
BAC 4.0.1 includes the following enhancements in addition to those that apply to BAC 4.0:
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Support for DOCSIS 2.0 + IPv6 devices.
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Support for RNG-200 devices for IPv4 and IPv6, including dual-stack RNG-220s.
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Support for a newer Java version (JRE 1.6.0_04). Earlier versions are no longer supported, except
for a BAC API client operating with the BAC 4.0.1 RDU. See
for a BAC API client operating with the BAC 4.0.1 RDU. See
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Direct or incremental upgrades from these BAC versions:
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2.7.1.x.
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2.6.2.x that BAC 4.0 already supports.
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4.0—Customers using the BAC 4.0 RDU must first upgrade to 4.0.0.1.
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Processing of DHCP Option 177 Requests. See
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Provisioning of Promiscuous Mode MTA Devices. See
DOCSIS 3.0 and IPv6 Support
This BAC release introduces support for DOCSIS 3.0, which defines the third generation of the
high-speed data-over-cable systems specification. DOCSIS 3.0 provides:
high-speed data-over-cable systems specification. DOCSIS 3.0 provides:
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Provisioning of IPv6 devices
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Expanded addressability of network elements