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Obtaining Documentation and Submitting a Service Request
Preface
Revised: June 2011, OL-15808-07Document Revision History
The document revision history table below records technical changes to this document.
Description of Changes
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Added new chapters, modified some chapters in the document, removed a chapter, and generated the full-book PDF version of the document. See the Organization section to know more about the chapters.
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Added the new "Automatic ROMMON Upgrade" chapter to the Troubleshooting on the Cisco CMTS Routers section.
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Added the new "Cable Modem Upstream RF Adaptation" chapter to the Cable Interface: Downstream and Upstream Features section.
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Added the new "Fairness Across DOCSIS Interfaces" chapter to the QoS Features section.
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Added the new "Video over DOCSIS Load Balancing for DOCSIS 2.0 Cable Modems" chapter to the Cable Interface: Downstream and Upstream Features section.
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Added the new "Video over DOCSIS Load Balancing for DOCSIS 2.0 Cable Modems" chapter to the Cable Interface: Downstream and Upstream Features section.
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Added the new "VRF Steering for Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to the Layer 2 and VPN Features section.
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Updated the "MQC QoS on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the 802.1Q QoS Support on GiGE WAN feature and the MPLS Short-Pipe Mode feature that introduces QoS on the WAN interface for MPLS EXP bits, enabling the user to set priority bits for traffic prioritization.
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Updated the "Spectrum Management and Advanced Spectrum Management for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the DOCSIS 3.0 carrier-to-noise plus interference ratio (CNiR) measurement.
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Updated the "Load Balancing and Dynamic Channel Change on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the DOCSIS 3.0 load balancing feature.
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Updated the "IGMP-Triggered VDOC Broadcast Support on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the Inter Line Card RF Spanning feature that supports sharing of downstream channels across line cards installed on the Cisco uBR10012 router.
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Updated the "IPv6 on Cable" chapter to include information about the IPv6 CPE router support on the Cisco CMTS and the 6PE & 6VPE feature that allows service providers to provide an IPv6 VPN service that does not require an upgrade or reconfiguration of the PE routers in the IPv4 MPLS core.
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Updated the "MPLS Pseudowire for Cable L2VPN" chapter to include information about the L2VPN Pseudowire Redundancy feature that enables you to configure a backup pseudowire in case the primary pseudowire fails.
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Updated the "Service Independent Intercept on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the Service Independent Intercept (SII) taps that can be configured to an IP address learned from a customer-premises equipment (CPE) router.
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Updated the "Upstream Scheduler Mode for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the Upstream Bandwidth Request Rate Limiting feature, which controls the CPU consumption of the US scheduler by monitoring the number of incoming bandwidth requests, and dropping excessive bandwidth requests.
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Updated the "PacketCable and PacketCable Multimedia on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the voice multiple grants per interval (MGPI) feature that enables the Cisco CMTS router to map multiple PCMM gates (application flows) to a single DOCSIS service flow using Unsolicited Grant Service (UGS) traffic profiles of the same cable modem.
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Updated the "PacketCable and PacketCable Multimedia on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the embedded multimedia terminal adapters (E-MTAs). An E-MTA is a network element that contains the interface to a physical voice device, a network interface, and all signaling and encapsulation functions required for the VoIP transport, class features signaling, and QoS signaling.
Description of Changes
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Added new chapters, modified some chapters in the document, removed a chapter, and generated the full-book PDF version of the document. See the Organization section to know more about the chapters.
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Added the new "Call Home Feature for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to the Cisco CMTS Router Services section.
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Added the new "Downstream Channel ID Assignment on the Cisco CMTS Routers" and "Upstream Bonding Support for Prisma DPON on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapters to the Cable Interface: Downstream and Upstream Features section.
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Removed the "Configuring Upstream Cable Interface Features on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter from the Cable Interface: Downstream and Upstream Features section.
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Updated the "M-CMTS DEPI Control Plane" chapter to include information about the N+1 DEPI redundancy and DEPI EQAM statistics.
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Updated the "PacketCable and PacketCable Multimedia for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the PacketCable multimedia changes for VDOC and multicast support.
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Updated the "PXF Divert Rate Limit Enhancement on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about PXF Accelerated for IPv6 Forwarding feature.
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Updated the "IPv6 on Cable" chapter to include information about IPv6 High Availability.
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Updated the "Load Balancing and Dynamic Channel Change on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about Multiple IP per MAC Support feature.
Description of Changes
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Added a new chapter, modified some chapters in the document, and generated the full-book PDF version of the document. See the Organization section to know more about the chapters.
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Added the new "Power and Thermal Monitoring on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to the Troubleshooting on the Cisco CMTS Routers section.
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Updated the "IPDR Streaming Protocol on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the Data Collection Methodologies and DOCSIS 3.0 IPDR Schema.
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Updated the "Cisco IOS In-Service Software Upgrade Process" chapter to include information about the Single Step Upgrade Process.
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Updated the "Dynamic Shared Secret for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the Dynamic Insertion of TFTP Server TLV for CM Firmware Upgrade.
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Updated the "Subscriber Traffic Management for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the Subscriber Traffic Management Version 1.3.
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Updated the "Upstream Channel Bonding" chapter to include information about the Upstream Weighted Fair Queuing feature.
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Updated the "Usage-Based Billing for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about configuring the physical channel utilization interval.
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Updated the "Default DOCSIS 1.0 ToS Overwrite" chapter to include information about configuring the priority of the QoS profile-2.
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Updated the "Configuring Upstream Cable Interface Features on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the CMTS Upstream Traffic Prioritization.
Description of Changes
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Modified some chapters in the document and generated the full-book PDF version of the document. See the Organization section to know more about the chapters.
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Updated the "DOCSIS 1.1 for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the DOCSIS 3.0 Downstream Peak Traffic Rate TLV Support for ERBA on Cisco uBR7246VXR and Cisco uBR7225VXR routers.
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Updated the "Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing on the Cisco CMTS Router" chapter to include support for Cisco uBR7246VXR and Cisco uBR7225VXR routers.
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Updated the "DOCSIS 3.0 Downstream Bonding for Bronze Certification" chapter to include support for Cisco uBR7246VXR and Cisco uBR7225VXR routers.
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Updated the "Upstream Channel Bonding" chapter to include support for Cisco uBR7246VXR and Cisco uBR7225VXR routers.
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Updated the "Wideband Modem Resiliency" chapter to include support for Cisco uBR7246VXR and Cisco uBR7225VXR routers.
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Updated the "Restricted/General Load Balancing and Narrowband Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing with Downstream Dynamic Load Balancing" chapter to include support for Cisco uBR7246VXR and Cisco uBR7225VXR routers.
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Updated the "PacketCable and PacketCable Multimedia on theCisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include support for Cisco uBR7246VXR and Cisco uBR7225VXR routers.
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Updated the "Service Flow Admission Control for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include support for Cisco uBR7246VXR and Cisco uBR7225VXR routers.
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Updated the "Advanced-Mode DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway 1.2 for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include support for the Cisco uBR-MC88V line card.
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Updated the "S-CDMA and Logical Channel Support on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include support for Cisco uBR7246VXR and Cisco uBR7225VXR routers.
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Updated the "DOCSIS 3.0 Multicast Support on the CMTS Routers" chapter to include support for Cisco uBR7246VXR and Cisco uBR7225VXR routers.
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Updated the "DOCSIS WFQ Scheduler on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include support for Cisco uBR7246VXR and Cisco uBR7225VXR routers.
Description of Changes
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Added new chapters to the document and generated the full-book PDF version of the document. See the Organization section to know more about the chapters.
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Updated the "DOCSIS 3.0 Multicast Support on the CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the DOCSIS 3.0 multicast compliance.
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Updated the "DOCSIS WFQ Scheduler on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the configurable DOCSIS downstream weight.
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Updated the "MQC QoS on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the configurable GigE output-rate.
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Updated the "Advanced-Mode DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway 1.2 for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about adding DSG tunnel group to a subinterface.
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Updated the "Service Flow Admission Control for the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about the DOCSIS 3.0 introduced bonded channels or bonding groups.
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Updated the "Load Balancing and Dynamic Channel Change on the Cisco CMTS Routers" chapter to include information about load balancing prohibition based on group policy ID.
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Updated the "Spectrum Management and Advanced Spectrum Management for the Cisco CMTS" chapter to include information about the three-steps dynamic modulation profiles.
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Updated the "N+1 Redundancy for the Cisco Cable Modem Termination System" chapter to include information about the HCCP CLI blocking.
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Updated the "IPv6 on Cable" chapter to include information about the IPv6 dual stack CPE support on the CMTS.
Description of Changes
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Added new chapters to the document and generated the full-book PDF version of the document. See the Organization section to know more about the chapters.
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Updated the "PacketCable and Multimedia Features" chapter to include information about the Subscriber ID Support for Packetcable.
Description of Changes
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Added a Preface and created a full-book PDF version of the document.
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Modified the description of how new sessions are handled when the current number of multicast sessions have reached their defined limit in the "Multicast Session Limit" section of the "Multicast VPN and DOCSIS 3.0 Multicast QoS Support" chapter.
Description of Changes
First release.
Audience
This book is intended for system administrators and support engineers who configure and maintain the Cisco Cable Modem Termination Systems (CMTSs) in Cisco IOS Release 12.2SC-based software release trains.
Organization
This guide includes the following sections:
Section Title DescriptionPart 1
Cisco CMTS Router Basics
Describes basic information for getting started with configuration of a Cisco CMTS router. The chapters in this section include:
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Configuring the Cisco uBR10012 Universal Broadband Router for the First Time
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Configuring the Cisco uBR7200 Series Universal Broadband Routers for the First Time
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Performing OIR of Cable Interface Line Cards on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Unique Device Identifier Retrieval for the Cisco CMTS
Part 2
Advanced Mode DOCSIS Set-Top Gateway
Describes information to configure Advanced Mode DSG version 1.2 on the Cisco CMTS routers.
Part 3
Cable Interface: Downstream and Upstream Features
Describes how to configure cable downstream and upstream interfaces on the Cisco CMTS routers. The chapters in this section include:
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Cable Modem Upstream RF Adaptation
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Configuring Upstream Cable Interface Features on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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CM Steering on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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DOCSIS 2.0 A-TDMA Modulation Profiles for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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DOCSIS 3.0 Downstream Bonding for Bronze Certification
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Downstream Channel ID Assignment on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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IGMP-Triggered Dynamic Channel Change Load Balancing for DOCSIS 2.0 Cable Modems
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IGMP-Triggered VDOC Broadcast Support on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Load Balancing and Dynamic Channel Change on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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M-CMTS DEPI Control Plane
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Restricted/General Load Balancing and Narrowband Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing with Downstream Dynamic Load Balancing
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RSVP-Based Video on Demand Support Over DOCSIS
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SCDMA and Logical Channel Support on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Spectrum Management and Advanced Spectrum Management for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Support for Extended Frequency Ranges
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Upstream Bonding Support for Prisma DPON on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Upstream Channel Bonding
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Upstream Scheduler Mode for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Wideband Modem Resiliency
Part 4
Cable Interface: Security Features
Describes how to configure security features for cable interfaces on the Cisco CMTS routers. The chapters in this section include:
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Cable ARP Filtering
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Cable Duplicate MAC Address Reject for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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DOCSIS 1.1 for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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DOCSIS 3.0 CRL and OCSP on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Dynamic Shared Secret for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Filtering Cable DHCP Lease Queries on Cisco CMTS Routers
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Subscriber Management Packet Filtering for DOCSIS 2.0
Part 5
Cable Monitoring Features
Describes how to configure monitoring on the Cisco CMTS routers. This section includes the following chapters:
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Cable Monitor and Intercept Features for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Service Independent Intercept on the Cisco CMTS Routers
Part 6
Cisco CMTS Router Services
Describes how to configure supporting services for the Cisco CMTS routers. This section includes the following chapters:
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Call Home Feature for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Cisco Network Registrar for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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DHCP, ToD, and TFTP Services for the CMTS Routers
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Internal DOCSIS Configurator File Generator for the Cisco CMTS Routers
Part 7
High Availability Features
Describes how to configure the HA features supported on the Cisco CMTS routers. This section includes the following chapters:
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Cisco IOS In-Service Software Upgrade Process
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N+1 Redundancy for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Route Processor Redundancy for the Cisco uBR10012 Universal Broadband Router
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Route Processor Redundancy Plus for the Cisco uBR10012 Universal Broadband Router
For information about other HA support in the Cisco IOS software including NSF/SSO support, MPLS HA, and OSPF Graceful Restart, refer to the Cross-Platform Release Notes for Cisco Universal Broadband Routers in Cisco IOS Release 12.2SC.
Part 8
Layer 2 and VPN Features
Describes how to configure Layer 2 and VPN features on the Cisco CMTS routers. This section includes the following chapters:
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Cisco uBR7200 Series MPLS VPN Cable Enhancements
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EtherChannel on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Generic Routing Encapsulation on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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L2VPN Support Over Cable
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MPLS Pseudowire for Cable L2VPN
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Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet Support on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Service Flow Mapping to MPLS-VPN on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Transparent LAN Service over Cable
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VRF Steering for the CMTS Routers
Part 9
Layer 3 and Interface Bundle Features
Describes how to configure Layer 3 features on virtual interface bundles on the Cisco CMTS routers. This section includes the following chapters:
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DOCSIS 3.0 Multicast Support on the CMTS Routers
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IPv6 on Cable
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Multicast VPN and DOCSIS 3.0 Multicast QoS Support
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Virtual Interface Bundling for the Cisco CMTS
Part 10
PacketCable and PacketCable Multimedia Features
Describes how to configure PacketCable and PacketCable Multimedia support on the Cisco CMTS routers.
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COPS Engine Operation on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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PacketCable and PacketCable Multimedia for the Cisco CMTS Routers
Part 11
QoS Features
Describes how to configure Quality of Service support for cable on the Cisco CMTS routers. This section includes the following chapters:
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Default DOCSIS ToS Overwrite
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DOCSIS 1.1 for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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DOCSIS WFQ Scheduler on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Dynamic Bandwidth Sharing on the Cisco CMTS Router
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Fairness Across DOCSIS Interfaces
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MQC QoS on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Service Flow Admission Control for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Subscriber Traffic Management for the Cisco CMTS Routers
Part 12
Traffic Management and Other Management Features
Describes how to configure management-related features on the Cisco CMTS routers. This section includes the following chapters:
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Control Point Discovery for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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IPDR Streaming Protocol on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Managing Cable Modems on the Hybrid Fiber-Coaxial Network
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Maximum CPE and Host Parameters for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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PXF Divert Rate Limit Enhancement on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Usage Based Billing for the Cisco CMTS Routers
Part 13
Troubleshooting on the Cisco CMTS Routers
Describes how to troubleshoot certain areas of the Cisco CMTS router operation. This section includes the following chapters:
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Automatic ROMMON Upgrade for Cable Interface Line Card
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Cable IPC Statistics Collection Tool
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Cisco CMTS Static CPE Override
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Flap List Troubleshooting for the Cisco CMTS Routers
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GOLD Health Monitoring for the Cisco UBR10012 Universal Broadband Router
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Power and Thermal Monitoring on the Cisco CMTS Routers
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Resolving Common Image Installation Problems
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System Event Archive Health Monitoring for the Cisco UBR10012 Routers
Part 14
Appendix A: Configuration Register Information
Describes configuration register information for the Cisco uBR10012 and Cisco uBR7200 series universal broadband routers.
Part 15
Appendix B: Frequency Allocation Tables
Describes frequency channel information for the Cisco uBR7200 series universal broadband routers.
Conventions
This document uses the following conventions:
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Note
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Tip
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CautionMeans reader be careful. In this situation, you might perform an action that could result in equipment damage or loss of data.
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Timesaver
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WarningMeans reader be warned. In this situation, you might perform an action that could result in bodily injury.
Related Documentation
This section lists documents that provide additional information about the Cisco CMTS universal broadband routers. These documents are available on Cisco.com.
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Release Notes
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Release Notes for the Cisco uBR10012 Universal Broadband Routers
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Release Notes for the Cisco uBR7200 Series Universal Broadband Routers
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Cisco IOS CMTS Cable Command Reference
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Cisco IOS CMTS Cable System Messages Guide
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Cisco CMTS Universal Broadband Series Router MIB Specifications Guide 12.2 SC
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For information about other platform-independent features supported in the Cisco IOS software by the Cisco CMTS routers, refer to the Cisco IOS Release 12.2SB documentation at:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps6566/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
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For information about the supported CMTS router hardware in Cisco IOS Release 12.2SC, refer to the following sites on Cisco.com:
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Cisco uBR10012 Universal Broadband Router
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/cable/ps2209/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
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Cisco uBR7246VXR Universal Broadband Router
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/hw/cable/ps2217/tsd_products_support_series_home.html
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Cisco uBR7225VXR Universal Broadband Router
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/products/ps8474/prod_installation_guides_list.html
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For information about Cisco IOS documentation conventions, organization, and information about command-line interface in Cisco IOS software:
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About Cisco IOS Software Documentation
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Using the Command-Line Interface in Cisco IOS Software
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