PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Deutsche Telekom has linked the primary stay buyer to its disaggregated broadband community, utilizing routing software program from RtBrick working on bare-metal swap {hardware}, to ship as much as 1000Mbps of web connectivity.
“Disaggregation represents a brand new period for our community, and RtBrick joins us in offering full stack BNG (Broadband Community Gateway) working on the Entry 4.0 backbone/leaf material linked to our IP core manufacturing community,” stated Hans-Joerg Kolbe, Chief Product Proprietor Entry 4.0 at Deutsche Telekom. “We needed to embrace a brand new cloud-native strategy to constructing and working our community. Disaggregation permits us to independently choose the very best {hardware} and software program for any job, it’s less complicated to automate and it’s extra versatile and open than utilizing conventional techniques. That’s why we’re one among a number of operators who’ve not too long ago highlighted the advantages of open BNG software program, like that offered by RtBrick, within the Open BNG white paper and additional pursue this path as a part of the TIP (the Telecom Infra Challenge) group.”
The primary subscriber was linked to an alternate in Stuttgart, Germany, with a wider roll-out being deliberate. This adopted an in depth interval of testing and a pilot that included complete integration into operational help techniques.
“Connecting actual prospects over a disaggregated community of this scale is a major milestone for the entire trade,” stated Hannes Gredler, founder and chief expertise officer at RtBrick. “The shift to constructing networks utilizing open software program, moderately than proprietary techniques, might be a very powerful improvement the trade has seen for the reason that arrival of the Web, and this deployment is proof that cloud-native networks are prepared for the mainstream.”
The RtBrick routing software program acts because the BNG in Deutsche Telekom’s community, which terminates broadband subscriber site visitors, together with offering different features, akin to high quality of service, lawful intercept and IPTV. The software program runs in a Linux container on bare-metal-switches, configured utilizing ZTP (Zero-Contact-Provisioning) and programmed via RtBrick’s open APIs. It replaces conventional chassis-based routing techniques.
RtBrick’s open BNG is the primary use-case of its FullStack IP/MPLS routing software program, which brings the advantages of cloud-native infrastructure to provider entry networks. To be taught extra about RtBrick’s pioneering strategy to networking and the newest options of its open BNG routing software program, go to rtbrick.com.
About RtBrick
RtBrick has pioneered provider routing software program that runs on off-the-shelf {hardware}. It has utilized the identical strategy to networks that the large ‘cloud-natives’ have used to construct and function their web-scale IT companies. RtBrick is a privately held firm, with workers situated in India, Europe and the USA.
The knowledge was submitted for publication at 10:00 CET on JANUARY 20, 2021.
