Re: CUPS in a BNG?

[Tom Mitchell <tmitchell () netelastic com>]

What is it about the architecture that makes it a preferred solution.  I
get that centralizing the user databases makes sense, but why the control
plane.  What benefit does that have?

-- Tom


On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 2:17 PM <brian.johnson () netgeek us> wrote:

> The CUPS makes a lot of sense for this application. Latency is dependent
> on the design, and equipment used. I’ve seen/done several designs for this
> using two different vendors equipment and two different BNG software stacks.
>
> When I do a design for BNG from scratch, this is how I do it now. :)
>
> As always… YMMV.
>
> - Brian
>
> On Mar 22, 2023, at 4:02 PM, Tom Mitchell <tmitchell () netelastic com>
> wrote:
>
> Anyone have any thoughts on this CUPS thing?  I have a customer asking,
> but it seems the lack of CP resiliency and additional latency between the
> DP and CP make this a really dumb idea.  Has anyone tried it?  Does it make
> any sense?
>
> Thanks!