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Cisco Broadband Access Center 3.8 Administrator Guide
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Broadband Access Center Overview
This chapter provides an overview of Cisco Broadband Access Center (Cisco BAC).
Cisco BAC automates the tasks of provisioning and managing customer premises equipment (CPE) in a
broadband service provider network.
With the high-performance capabilities of Cisco BAC, you can scale the product to suit networks of
virtually any size, even those with millions of CPE. It also offers high availability, made possible by the
product’s distributed architecture and centralized management.
Cisco BAC supports provisioning and managing of CPE by using the Broadband Forum’s CPE WAN
Management Protocol (CWMP), a standard defined in the TR-069 specification. Cisco BAC integrates
the capabilities defined in TR-069 to increase operator efficiency and reduce network-management
problems.
Cisco BAC supports devices based on the TR-069, TR-098, TR-104, TR-106, TR-181, and TR-196
standards. These devices include Ethernet and ADSL gateway devices, wireless gateways, VoIP ATAs,
and other devices compliant with CWMP. Cisco BAC also provides for runtime-extensible data models
to support any upcoming data-model standards or any vendor-specific data models based on CWMP.
Cisco BAC provides such critical features as redundancy and failover. Cisco BAC can be integrated into
new or existing environments through the use of a provisioning application programming interface (API)
that lets you control how Cisco BAC operates.
You can use the provisioning API to register devices in Cisco BAC, assign device configuration policies,
execute any CWMP operations on the CPE, and configure the entire Cisco BAC provisioning system.
This chapter includes the following sections:
• Features and Benefits, page 1-1
• Supported Technology, page 1-3
Features and Benefits
Cisco BAC helps service providers provision and manage the rapidly expanding number of home
networking devices.
Cisco BAC supports mass-scale provisioning and managing of Femtocell Access Point (FAP) devices
that function as mini 3G cell tower in customer premises and backhaul call using the customer’s internet
connection. Apart from supporting the FAP devices, Cisco BAC also supports provisioning and
managing of Digital Life Controller (DLC) devices based on TR-069 protocol.
This section describes the basic features and benefits that the Cisco BAC architecture offers: