Simplify AAA Management and Diameter Routing

Meet the tremendous challenges of deploying and managing authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) access control services with Cisco Access Registrar. Manage traffic among Diameter-based network elements with Cisco Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) which provides an intelligent Diameter signaling traffic control infrastructure.

Features and Capabilities

Cisco Access Registrar is an AAA server that offers scalability and extensibility in your complex service provider environment. Using one common platform, you can efficiently serve an increasingly broad range of access technologies, users, and roaming partners, and rapidly deliver new subscriber services. This product offers:

• Support for a wide range of network access technologies: Cisco Access Registrar supports DSL, dialup, Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA), General Packet Radio Service (GPRS), and Universal Mobile Telecommunications Service (UMTS), WLAN, public WLAN, WiMAX, femtocell, and others. By standardizing on one common AAA server platform, this solution reduces operational and capital expenses and provides flexibility in AAA choice.
• Speed and scalability: Exceptional RADIUS performance and scalability support large service deployments and millions of simultaneous active sessions.
• Extensibility: The platform is extremely customizable and flexible to help you meet your unique business, regulatory, and technical requirements.
• Broad integration capabilities: Cisco Access Registrar supports integration with an extensive variety of external data stores, provisioning and billing systems and multi-vendor network access servers to:
  
  
  • Simplify deployment and operations
  • Lower operational expenses
  • Enhance scalability and speed service rollouts
• Session management: Session and resource management tools track user sessions and dynamically allocate resources such as IP addresses and user or group session limits.

The Cisco Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) provides an intelligent Diameter signaling traffic control infrastructure. Operators are transforming their 3G and 4G wireless networks with complex services, tiered charging, and converged billing by introducing increasing numbers and types of Diameter-based network elements.

The Cisco Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) allows complex mesh interconnections of these new network elements, performs appropriate load balancing for congestion control, and ensures proper billing and tracking of service and application usage.

Long-Term Evolution (LTE) and IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) networks especially are implementing more and more Diameter-based network elements, including:

• Policy and Charging Rules Functions (PCRF)
• Home Subscriber Servers (HSS)
• Mobility Management Entities (MME)
• Online Charging Systems (OCS)

As the resulting traffic levels grow, these wireless networks become more difficult to manage and scale. The Cisco DRA:

• Helps enable complex mesh interconnections of these new network elements
• Performs appropriate load balancing for congestion control
• Helps ensure proper billing and tracking of service and application usage

Cisco Access Registrar Jumpstart is a high performance appliance for Radius/Diameter authentication, authorization, and accounting (AAA) services that is fast and easy to implement.