EPC support on LTE interface and FlexVPN interface

Embedded Packet Capture (EPC) is an onboard packet capture facility that allows network administrators to capture packets flowing to, through, and from a device. This feature facilitates troubleshooting by gathering information about packet format.

Change of Authorization and Trustsec

This feature utilizes Posture Assessment capabilites to validate the compliance of endpoints according to security policies of your enterprise. Identity Services Engine (ISE) Posture functions are integrated into Cisco 1100 Integrated Services Routers.

Change of Authorization (CoA) provides a mechanism to change the attributes of an authentication,authorization, and accounting (AAA) session after it is authenticated. Identity-Based Networking Services supports change of authorization (CoA) commands for session query,reauthentication, and termination, port bounce and port shutdown, and service template activation and deactivation

Layer 2 Protocol Tunneling on Ports

You can now configure L2CP X for tunneling, this allows to forward all other l2cp with the DST MAC 01:00:0C:CD:CD:D0 except X with the DST MAC 01:00:0C:CD:CD:D0

IP-SLA-HTTPS

This feature has enhanced capabilities of IP SLA device tracking with HTTPS probes and helps to verify reachability in the network.

Software Configuration Guide for Catalyst Cellular Gateway

Cisco Catalyst Cellular Gateways combine the latest in cellular technology with deployment flexibility, investment protection, and ease of management, with both traditional and SD-WAN deployments.

NBAR Support on the EVC Service Instance

To classify the data packets, enable NBAR FIA-trace data on the Ethernet flow point (EFP) interface. Quality of service (QoS) takes action on the EPF interface based on the results from the NBAR traffic classification.

VRF Support for CPE WAN Management Protocol

The digital subscriber line (DSL) Forum's TR-069, CPE WAN Management Protocol (CWMP), is used for communications between a customer premise equipment (CPE) and an auto-configuration server (ACS). With the VRF Support for CPE WAN Management Protocol, the traffic in global IP table is routed with VRF. This helps to improve the security and also transports the TR069 agent within the VRF.

BGP Large Community

The BGP large communities provide the capability for tagging routes and modifying BGP routing policy on routers. BGP large communities can be appended or removed selectively on the large community attribute as the route travels from router to router.

Consent Token Authorization Process for Dev Key Access

With the introduction of the dev-key install functionality, a subset of Cisco IOS XE platforms that support dev-key functionality are shipped only with a release public key.

Configuring Stateless Static NAT

Static Network Address Translation (NAT) allows the user to configure one-to-one translations of the inside local addresses to the outside global addresses. A new keyword stateless is introduced for Cisco IOS XE static NAT configuration and it applies only to static NAT command. When the static mapping is set to stateless, no sessions will be created for that traffic flow.

CUBE: Hunt Stop for Server Groups

With server groups, you can create simpler configurations by specifying a list of destination SIP servers for a single dial peer. When a call matches a dial peer that is configured with a server group, the destination is selected from the list of candidates based on a configured policy. If it is not possible to complete that call, the next candidate is selected. Alternatively, you can also choose to stop hunting through the group if a specified response code is received. If the call cannot be placed to any of the servers in the group, or hunting is stopped, call processing continues to the next preferred dial-peer.

CUBE: VoIP Trace Serviceability Framework

VoIP Trace is a Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) serviceability framework, which provides a binary trace facility for persistently monitoring and troubleshooting SIP call issues. The VoIP Trace framework records both successful and failed calls. All call trace data is stored in system memory. In addition, data for calls with IEC errors is written to the logging buffer.

CUBE: Clear Hung RTP Ports

When establishing a call, CUBE allocates several RTP ports that are based on the media that are negotiated for the session. Some ports remain assigned even after the call ends. In the current behavior, show voip rtp statscommand displays only the ports allocated from the global table, even if the ports are allocated from all the three tables (Global port, media IP address-based, and media VRF-based). Now this command is enhanced to display the ports allocated from all the three tables. The command also displays the hung ports and allows you to release those ports. Releasing the hung ports increases the efficiency of the routers as more ports are available to receive calls.

Unified CME: Smart License Using Policy

Smart Licensing using Policy reports license usage periodically based on an account policy, rather than requesting licenses based on past usage as in previous releases. Evaluation mode and license reservation are not supported. License usage is reported to Smart Agent three minutes after the last configuration change. Now all the devices within a network follow the uniform approach of reporting their license usage to Smart Agent. The Smart Agent in turn creates a Resource Utilization Monitoring (RUM) report and dispatches to CSSM based on the Smart Agent reporting policy.

For a more detailed overview on Cisco Licensing, go to https://cisco.com/go/licensingguide.