Active Broadband Networks, this week announced the availability of PPPoE support for its Software-Defined Broadband Network Gateway (SD-BNG), providing a cost-effective alternative to xDSL providers deploying G.fast. The support for PPPoE is an enhancement of the SD-BNG platform’s current IPoE support, and includes support for IPv6 and multicast.
SD-BNG is an all-software platform deployed virtually or as part of a cloud infrastructure, comprising the Active Resource Controller (ARC), an SDN controller optimized for broadband service delivery with integrated orchestration, activation, analytics, vpolicy and QoE management, and the Active Programmable Gateway (APG), an all-software forwarding engine providing edge admission, forwarding and QoS functionality.
According to Active Broadband, DSL remains the predominant broadband service delivery mechanism, with more than 60% of the world’s broadband service delivered using this technology. During 2015, many DSL operators will begin to migrate to support G.fast, a DSL standard for local loops that improves broadband service performance over copper by providing speeds that exceed 100Mbps. As a consequence of making this upgrade, operators will need to revisit their broadband remote access servers/broadband network gateways (BRAS/BNG) infrastructure to accommodate the speed increases they are planning to deliver to their customers.
Adam Dunstan, Co-Founder and CEO, Active Broadband Networks
DSL is still the world’s most broadly used broadband delivery mechanism, and development continues to unlock increased speeds, allowing copper to deliver competitive broadband services. As operators begin to deliver higher speeds and need to add capacity to the broadband edge by replacing existing BRAS, they will be unhappily surprised that the cost of replacement platforms – the BNGs – has not declined in-line with other components in the network.
