Re: Linux BNG

[Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>]

On 14/Jul/18 20:29, tony () wicks co nz wrote:

> My biggest issue with the vendor offerings is that they are not making their virtual offerings (VMX, VSR) attractive 
> enough pricing wise at the small scale, we have successful virtual Juniper and Nokia BNG's in production but pricing 
> wise it generally ends up with the service provider thinking that hardware was probably a better choice in the long 
> run.

vBNG's are fraught with imperceptible license fees. But yes, if you had
do deploy a BNG on an x86 box, a vBNG from a well-known vendor will
likely be less problematic to setup and scale than a BNG based on Linux.
Then again, I last researched this in 2016, so things could have changed
a tad.

Mark.