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Cisco Access Registrar 5.0
PB566190
Product Overview
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Access Registrar is the leading Cisco RADIUS and Diameter authentication, authorization, and accounting
(AAA) server for the service provider market. It supports service provider deployment of access services by
centralizing AAA information and simplifying provisioning and management. Cisco Access Registrar is a standards-
based RADIUS/Diameter and proxy RADIUS/Diameter server designed for high performance, extensibility, and
integration with external data stores and systems. It provides an ideal solution for service providers with wide-area
broadband (WiMax), wide-area mobile Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), General Packet Radio Service
(GPRS), Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS), 1xRTT, 1xEV-DOrA), wired and wireless local-area
networks (Wi-Fi, WiMax), dial-up, and DSL services.
Table 1 lists the features of Cisco Access Registrar.
Table 1.
Cisco Access Registrar Features
Feature
Description
Authentication
Cisco Access Registrar supports a wide range of authentication including the latest Extensible Authentication
Protocol (EAP) methods. User information can be stored in its internal database or external directories or
databases.
Protocol (EAP) methods. User information can be stored in its internal database or external directories or
databases.
Authorization
Cisco Access Registrar has user and group authorization. Session limits and IP address pools can be managed
centrally, across multiple Cisco Access Registrar servers.
centrally, across multiple Cisco Access Registrar servers.
Accounting
Cisco Access Registrar's flexible accounting allows accounting records to be stored to local files, to external
databases, proxies, or any combination of these methods.
databases, proxies, or any combination of these methods.
RADIUS Proxy
Cisco Access Registrar provides rich RADIUS proxy functions including EAP proxy and failover and round-robin
modes.
modes.
Customization
Cisco Access Registrar has the flexibility to implement complex realm and AAA policies used in today's multiple-
technology service provider environments. It also provides interfaces for automated configuration provisioning and
custom-built AAA methods.
technology service provider environments. It also provides interfaces for automated configuration provisioning and
custom-built AAA methods.
Scalability
Cisco Access Registrar provides an option to customers to decide whether session management needs to be done
internal by Cisco Access Registrar or needs to off-load the active session information to an external database like
Oracle to achieve multi-million sessions.
internal by Cisco Access Registrar or needs to off-load the active session information to an external database like
Oracle to achieve multi-million sessions.
Performance
Cisco Access Registrar's high-performance AAA processing increases Return On Investment (ROI) through lower
hardware and server management costs.
hardware and server management costs.
New Features in Cisco Access Registrar 5.0
Diameter Support
Cisco Access Registrar 5.0 adds support to the Diameter base protocol as per RFC 3588. The Diameter base
application needs to be supported by all Diameter implementations.
Support for Diameter provides the following facilities:
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Supports authentication with the help of a local database or an external database (such as Lightweight
Directory Access Protocol [LDAP], Open Database Connectivity [ODBC])
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Does session management and resource management as Cisco Access Registrar currently does for the
RADIUS packet
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Supports writing the Diameter accounting packet in a local file or proxy to another AAA server