Specifications

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Cisco IOS Dial Technologies Configuration Guide
Configuring Resource Pool Management
This chapter describes the Cisco Resource Pool Management (RPM) feature. It includes the following
main sections:
• RPM Overview
• How to Configure RPM
• Verifying RPM Components
• Troubleshooting RPM
• Configuration Examples for RPM
To identify the hardware platform or software image information associated with a feature, use the
Feature Navigator on Cisco.com to search for information about the feature, or refer to the software
release notes for a specific release. For more information, see the “Identifying Supported Platforms”
section in the “Using Cisco IOS Software” chapter.
For a complete description of the commands mentioned in this chapter, refer to the Cisco IOS Dial
Technologies Command Reference, Release 12.2. To locate documentation of other commands that
appear in this chapter, use the command reference master index or search online.
RPM Overview
Cisco RPM enables telephone companies and Internet service providers (ISPs) to share dial resources
for wholesale and retail dial network services. With RPM, telcos and ISPs can count, control, and
manage dial resources and provide accounting for shared resources when implementing different
service-level agreements.
You can configure RPM in a single, standalone Cisco network access server (NAS) by using RPM or,
optionally, across multiple NAS stacks by using one or more external Cisco Resource Pool Manager
Servers (RPMS).
Cisco RPM gives data network service providers the capability to do the following:
• Have the flexibility to include local retail dial services in the same NAS with the wholesale dial
customers.
• Manage customer use of shared resources such as modems or High-Level Data Link Control
(HDLC) controllers for data calls.
• Offer advanced wholesale dialup services using a Virtual Private Dialup Network (VPDN) to
enterprise accounts and ISPs.
• Deploy Data over Voice Bearer Service (DoVBS).