Easy integration with back-end
systems
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The
Prime Cable Provisioning Java API, which can be used to perform all
provisioning and management operations. It also provides easy integration to
customer OSS, billing, or workflow and mediation software.
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The
Prime Cable Provisioning publishing extensions, which are useful in writing RDU
data into another database.
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The SNMP agent, which
simplifies integration for monitoring Prime Cable Provisioning.
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The DPE command-line
interface (CLI), which allows you to configure the DPE to suit your
requirements via a “services” interface, and which simplifies local
configuration when you use the CLI to copy and paste commands.
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The PWS (Provisioning Web Services), which helps in easy
interactions for device provisioning functions.
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Improved management
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Provisioning group
capabilities—Allows you to control the device type support that must be enabled
for the provisioning groups in your deployment.
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Property hierarchy—For
better flexibility, Prime Cable Provisioning property hierarchy allows you to
define properties at different levels.
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Increased security
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User-configurable IP
addresses and ports to provide multipathing, multi-interface binding, and
firewall compatibility.
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DOCSIS 3.0 for the
Extended CMTS MIC Configuration Setting, enabling Prime Cable Provisioning to
use advanced hashing techniques to detect unauthorized modification or
corruption of the cable modem configuration file.
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A password policy to
access the RDU from the Admin UI. The Radius authentication provides increased
security by authenticating the users accessing the network services via the
Radius server, using the Radius standard protocol.
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Secure access, enhanced
Admin UI access over HTTPS.
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Enhanced troubleshooting and
diagnostics
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Device troubleshooting to
provide detailed records of device interactions with Prime Cable Provisioning
servers using the IDs of the devices designated for troubleshooting. Using this
feature, you can focus on a single device, identified by its MAC address or its
DHCP Unique Identifier (DUID), and use that diagnostic information for further
analysis.
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Server troubleshooting
using diagnostics scripts to collect performance statistics—down to a specific
type of statistic—for the servers. Prime Cable Provisioning provides many
scripts to collect server and system configuration data that may be required
for support escalations. You can use the bundleState script to collect the
diagnostics data.
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DOCSIS 3.0 and IPv6 support
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DOCSIS 3.0 channel bonding
allows increased data speed for subscribers. Support for IPv4 and IPv6 cable
modems and IPv4/IPv6 mixed device environment, along with dual-stack
capability.
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Distributed architecture with
high availability and disaster recovery
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Offers true scalability,
failover, and high reliability to manage a growing subscriber base while
helping to ensure minimum subscriber service disruption. Allows a simple way to
extend provisioning to additional subscribers and new markets, and dramatically
simplifies capacity upgrade and lowers maintenance costs. Distributed
provisioning engines allow you to put them in different data centers for
disaster recovery.
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Integrated Kerberos Protocol
server (KDC) for PacketCable voice service provisioning
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Provides a single platform with
all the necessary security components for PacketCable provisioning.
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Templates and MACRO for better
flexibility
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You can include an existing
template and use MACRO for better flexibility in managing template parameters
and in automating the template deployment.
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Technology extensions
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Provides an easy means to extend
this single platform to provision new devices and technologies to meet changing
network and subscriber requirements.
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PacketCable 2.0 and IPv6 support
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Supports PacketCable 1.0, 1.1,
1.5 and 2.0 specifications for complete end-to-end IP voice service
provisioning and meets all PacketCable security specifications. PacketCable 2.0
supports device provisioning in IPv6 mode.
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Dynamic file generation
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Offers a means to build unique
files for individual subscriber devices to meet needs of tiered service
provisioning and true IP voice requirements.
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Safe failover
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High uptime and service
reliability through DPE and DHCP failover as well as TFTP redundancy.
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Enhanced support for complex extensions and improved caching
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Native support for 64-bit processes allows Prime Cable
Provisioning to improve memory management and provide enhanced support for
complex extensions. In addition, improved caching increases the performance and
reliability of the overall solution.
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RDU High Availability (RDU HA)
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In addition to DPE failover, Prime Cable Provisioning 5.x
supports RDU HA for RHEL and CentOS based deployments for enhanced reliability.
The RDU is the primary server in the
Prime Cable
Provisioning
system. It performs the following functions:
- Manages the
generation of all configurations
- Maintains the
authoritative database
- Represents the
central point through which all API requests must pass
- Supports external
clients, OSSs, and other provisioning functions through the provisioning API
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Fine-grained RBAC
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As the cable service provider organization evolves, more people
within the organization need easy access to subscriber and device data that is
present in the Prime Cable Provisioning solution; however, security
considerations must be taken into account when providing access to sensitive
data. With fine-grained access controls, system administrators no longer need
to compromise security with the need for greater access.
The new RBAC model allows administrators to create custom roles
(user groups) and assign operational privileges to custom roles. Administrators
can create new domains and partition data by regions (devices, classes of
service, provisioning groups, and more).
RBAC is supported for the RDU API, PWS API, and the DPE
command-line interface (CLI).
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SSL for RDU API and provisioning group communication
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SSL support for the RDU API helps ensure that sensitive
information remains encrypted and secure between the
Prime Cable
Provisioning
solution and the applications with which it integrates. In addition,
administrators can enable SSL encryption among the RDU, DPE and Cisco Prime
Network Registrar DHCP extensions.
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Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)-based web services API
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In addition to a Java API, a web services API provides
flexibility to integrate various OSS/BSS applications with the
Prime Cable
Provisioning
solution.
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