Preface
Welcome to the Cisco Broadband Access Center Administrator's Guide. This guide describes concepts and configurations related to Cisco Broadband Access Center, referred to as Cisco BAC throughout this guide.
This chapter provides an outline of the other chapters in this guide, details information about related documents that support this Cisco BAC release, and demonstrates the styles and conventions used in the guide.
Note This document is to be used in conjunction with the documentation listed in Product Documentation.
This section contains the following information:
•Audience
•Organization
•Conventions
•Product Documentation
•Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Audience
The Cisco Broadband Access Center Administrator's Guide is written for system administrators involved in automating large-scale provisioning for broadband access. The network administrator should be familiar with these topics:
•Basic networking concepts and terminology.
•Network administration.
Organization
This guide includes the following sections:
Conventions
This document uses the following conventions:
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bold font |
Commands and keywords and user-entered text appear in bold font. |
italic font |
Document titles, new or emphasized terms, and arguments for which you supply values are in italic font. |
[ ] |
Elements in square brackets are optional. |
{x | y | z } |
Required alternative keywords are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars. |
[ x | y | z ] |
Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars. |
string |
A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string or the string will include the quotation marks. |
courier font |
Terminal sessions and information the system displays appear in courier font. |
< > |
Nonprinting characters such as passwords are in angle brackets. |
[ ] |
Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets. |
!, # |
An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line. |
Note Means reader take note.
Caution
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reader be careful. In this situation, you might perform an action that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.
Product Documentation
Note We sometimes update the printed and electronic documentation after original publication. Therefore, you should also review the documentation on Cisco.com for any updates.
Table 1 describes the product documentation that is available.
Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
For information on obtaining documentation, submitting a service request, and gathering additional information, see the monthly What's New in Cisco Product Documentation, which also lists all new and revised Cisco technical documentation, at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/general/whatsnew/whatsnew.html
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