Benu Networks recently announced that its Virtual Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG) brings new Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) and 5G Wireless Wireline Convergence (WWC) capabilities to operator and carrier networks.
With this release, carriers are able to optimize network performance and scale, rapidly deploy SASE services to subscribers, and deliver a unified experience across fixed and mobile networks.
At present, most SASE offerings take an ‘outside-in’ approach, where the traffic travels out of the carrier network, through the Internet, to the SASE solution in a data center in order to be secured. In stark contrast to this method, Benu Networks software-defined SASE services run inside the carrier network, providing the industry’s only carrier-first SASE approach. Now, carriers have an unprecedented level of control and can lean into the untapped opportunity to run enterprise-class security for both remote workers and business sites/branch offices with a more efficient, streamlined security that does not open the network to the risks associated with Internet-based approaches.
Additionally, with a cloud-based infrastructure, operators can deliver higher bandwidth to more devices quickly and effectively. Cloud-native BNGs offer lower operational expenditures, ease of management and elastic scaling, providing operators with much needed flexibility and agility. The cloud-native vBNG is built on Benu Networks’ SD-Edge Platform, a networking software solution that disaggregates hardware from software and control plane from user plane, enabling operators to massively reduce cost, optimize their networks for the best user experience, and scale efficiently.
With Benu’s support for 5G Access Gateway Function (AGF), service providers can now embrace WWC to bring the benefits of 5G-like network slicing and low-latency services to fixed networks and WiFi. The Benu 5G AGF is a natural evolution of the BNG, where 5G service providers can manage their fixed line subscribers with their 5G core.
Ron Westfall, Senior Analyst and Research Director at Futurum Research
Benu Network’s approach allows the BNG to become the SD-edge, integrating SASE security and 5G capabilities as championed by the topmost influential industry standard forums.
Mads Lillelund, CEO of Benu Networks
Our customers are thrilled we are bringing a cloud-native solution that is not only disruptive in performance and economics, but also enables high-value security services and the option to manage their fixed network using their 5G core.
