Customized Residential vCPE & vRouter VNFs for a Satellite Communication Service Provider
Overview
Customer is a $500mn Belgium based Satellite Communication Service Provider. They wanted to build Layer 3 CPE functions of Residential vCPE in the Service Provider Cloud.
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Challenges
Need for replacing complex and expensive Layer 3 CPE’s with simple low-cost Layer 2 CPE devices
Difficulty in enabling Service Provider to build sophisticated multitier networks within virtualized environment
Solution
- Customized vRouter with following key features
- Support for IPv4 and IPv6 – Addressing, DNS, ARP, ICMP and static routing
- vRouter as a Docker Container. Provisioning, Deployment and Life Cycle Management of vCPE using docker and openstack
- Customized Residential vCPE with following key features
- RESTful API’s for remote access, management
- Heartbeat mechanism to monitor health of instances
Outcomes
- 1500+ vCPE instances on a single HW platform
- 100+ vRouter instances on a single HW platform
