British carrier Vodafone announced that its multivendor partnership successfully carried out a test of Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) disaggregation. BNGs sit at the edge of broadband networks and converges user traffic from the access network.
The companies applied a new open architecture to the BNG based on the global TR-459 standard maintained by the Broadband Forum, according to Vodafone.
“…the test allowed the core control functions of the gateway, such as authenticating a user and increasing bandwidth to support streaming services, to be separated and managed efficiently in the cloud whilst ensuring multi-vendor interoperability. Vodafone can then separately upgrade, scale and deploy new features and add more capacity, enabling greater agility and faster time to market when making enhancements across its pan-European broadband network,” said Vodafone in a statement.
