A New Approach to CPE (Customer Premises Equipment)
- Then: many single-purpose, hardware-based devices (router, load balancer, firewall, etc.)
- Now: virtualized appliances dynamically added or dropped as needed
- Some or all CPE networking functionality is virtualized & relocated
Market Drivers
Conventional appliance-based CPEs:
- Mass quantities, CapEx-and OpEx-intensive
- Slow and expensive to deploy and maintain
- Difficult to roll out new services quickly
RAD's vCPE OS Key Features :
- Open carrier-class OS platform for any white box or RAD vCPE devices
- Rich service assurance capabilities for overlay services and underlay connectivity
- State-of-the-art networking acceleration layer
- Management platform with automation and zero-touch provisioning
- Supports any access with built-in drivers for LTE and WiFi, and RAD’s pluggable PNFs on SFPs
- Robust security tools
- SD-WAN enabler
vCPE-OS Building Blocks
vCPE OS Spec. :
- Comprehensive management suite–NETCONF/YANG, CLI, Syslog, alarms, and more
- Wide range of robust security tools: SNMPv3, SSH, SFTP, Access Control, TACAS+, RADIUS
- Integrated networking capabilities, secure tunneling/VPN
- LTE, WiFi support
- Performance monitoring: TWAMP, ICMP echo, UDP echo
- Single IP for networking and virtualization management
Carrier-Grade OS over Any Network
vCPE-OS Virtualization Applications
The vCPE-OS includes standard KVM hypervisor and OpenStack compute node to support third-party applications. RADview D-NFV Orchestrator enables easy VF download.
- SD-WAN : Software-defined control of WAN connections with secure overlay tunnels for business services
- Router : Virtual router for hosted public clouds and branch CPE deployments
- Cryptography : Standard AES 256-bit cipher encryption/decryption of L2-L4 traffic
- Firewall : Unified threat management for provider-managed SMB services
- Session Border Controller (SBC) : Manages VoIP signaling and media flows
- Packet Analyzer : Troubleshooting-on-demand from the customer edge using a packet sniffer VF
- WAN Optimization : Eliminates content duplication, handles compression and optimizes latency
D-NFV Alliance
RAD’s Distributed NFV (D-NFV) Alliance is an ecosystem of application developers and virtual function vendors addressing the enterprise market, as well as orchestrator vendors offering network-wide managed end-to-end solutions, from the cloud to the customer premises. Once tested and approved by RAD, these applications are made available to service providers around the globe via RAD’s vCPE platforms, to enhance their service offering for enterprise and SMB customers. D-NFV Alliance applications include:
D-NFV Alliance
RAD’s Distributed NFV (D-NFV) Alliance is an ecosystem of application developers and virtual function vendors addressing the enterprise market, as well as orchestrator vendors offering network-wide managed end-to-end solutions, from the cloud to the customer premises. Once tested and approved by RAD, these applications are made available to service providers around the globe via RAD’s vCPE platforms, to enhance their service offering for enterprise and SMB customers. D-NFV Alliance applications include: