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.