Active Broadband Networks announced a virtual, all-software forwarding engine intended to move
broadband edge processing functions off edge routers into software, to eliminate the need for edge routers and enable operators to directly connect customers to their cloud.
The Active Programmable Gateway (APG) is the all-software forwarding engine element of the company's Software-Defined Broadband Network Gateway (SD-BNG), a platform that also consists of the Active Resource Controller (ARC), an SDN controller designed for broadband service delivery with integrated orchestration, activation, analytics, policy and QoE management.
The APG-Virtual Network Function (APG-VNF) is designed to enable edge admission, forwarding and QoS functionality to be deployed as virtual machines in an operator's cloud. Combining the SD-BNG with the APG-VNF is intended to let operators directly connect customers' edge connectivity services to network, compute, storage and application services provisioned within their cloud. The APG-VNF is designed to provide physical and logical connectivity integrating Linux virtualization and containers.
