Product Bulletin
Cisco Broadband Access Center 4.1
PB612877
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Cisco announces Cisco Broadband Access Center (BAC) 4.1. Cisco BAC provides a centralized and
automated subscriber device management system for service providers to control and configure home
gateways and the IP devices behind the gateways.
The Cisco BAC platform is highly scalable and reliable, with industry-leading performance. It supports multiple
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technologies and devices including DOCSIS and PacketCable , as well as providing the extensibility to support
customer proprietary devices. Table 1 describes the key features of Cisco BAC 4.1.
Table 1.
Key Features of Cisco Broadband Access Center 4.1
Feature
Description
DOCSIS 3.0 support
Support for channel bonding and IPv6 devices; support for mixed IPv4 and IPv6 device environment
IPv6 support
Support for IPv4 or IPv6 cable modem
IPv4 media termination adapter (MTA) behind an IPv4 or IPv6 cable modem
IPv4 or IPv6 device behind an IPv4 or IPv6 cable modem
Improved scalability and
performance
Regional distribution unit (RDU) scale increased to support 60 million devices
Device provisioning engine (DPE) scale increased to support 2 million devices
Significant improvements to template performance
Linux and Cisco Unified
Computing System (UCS)
support for provisioning group
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and Cisco UCS support for provisioning group components - DPE, Cisco Network
Registrar (CNR) DHCP, and Cisco CNR DNS.
Scripting interface
Support for Groovy scripting language to automate and improve flexibility of dynamic configuration file generation
RADIUS integration
RADIUS integration for RDU API and DPE command-line interface (CLI) authentication
DOCSIS Layer 2 VPN support
Support for CableLabs® business services over DOCSIS standard
DOCSIS 3.0 EMIC support
Support for CableLabs DOCSIS 3.0 Extended CMTS MIC standard
Availability
Cisco Broadband Access Center 4.1 will begin shipping in November, 2010.
Ordering Information
Table 2 provides ordering information for Cisco Broadband Access Center 4.1.
Table 2.
Part Numbers and Descriptions
Part Number
Description
BAC-BASE-4.1-K9
Cisco BAC software components (RDU software, Cisco CNR software, Kerberos Protocol server [KDC] software)
BAC-SVS-10K=
10,000 subscriber generic service license (includes 30,000 IP leases license)
BAC-SVS-500K=
500,000 subscriber data technology license (includes 1,500,000 IP leases license)
BAC-SVS-10K
10,000 subscriber data technology license (includes 30,000 IP leases license)
BAC-SVS-500K
500,000 subscriber data technology license (includes 1,500,000 IP leases license)
BAC-DPE-4.1
BAC license for single device provisioning engine
BAC-DPE-4.1=
BAC license for single device provisioning engine
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