Active Broadband to Demo SDN Solution

At the Open Networking Summit in Santa Clara, CA, Active Broadband Networks will demonstrate a software-defined networking (SDN) solution for integrated broadband access and subscriber service control. The demo will feature Active Broadband's Active Resource Manager (ARM), an SDN controller for subscriber-aware broadband service activation and control, and an Intel-based hardware platform for dynamically controlling subscriber traffic flows called a Programmable Broadband Gateway (PBG).

The ARM broadband access controller software collects network telemetry and subscriber service data from the PBG using the IPFIX protocol, which is used to collect IP flow statistics and other types of information from network elements. This data is processed in real time to monitor network conditions and subscriber traffic flows for a range of service management applications. The ARM performs broadband service activation and control by directly programming forwarding table entries in the PBG using the OpenFlow protocol (version 1.3). The ARM controller software runs on Linux-based servers, including virtual machine environments.