Self-driven and adaptable multi-vBNG management orchestration
摘要
說明書
In order to provide cloud based service delivery, some systems may use a vBNG, which is a virtualized network function (VNF) for subscriber management and services at the edge. Deployment of vBNGs may allow network service providers to elastically scale capacity in distributed edge or centralized data centers.
Scaling numbers and call setup rate (CSR) for vBNG may be significantly less compared to the physical BNGs. Customers may deploy multiple vBNG instances to achieve intended scale. However, there is a need to manage the vBNG instances due, in part, to less capacity. As a number of vBNG instances grows, so does the difficulty in managing the larger number of vBNGs.
Service providers deploying vBNGs frequently face challenges especially with respect to scale and call setup rate for a single vBNG. Service providers face challenges to manually deploy additional vBNG in order to meet the requirements and manage so many vBNG instances in the cloud. Usually, there is no compounding of vBNGs or communication between vBNGs. Further, physical BNGs and vBNGs may result in security issues, which is important to service providers. Such security issues may be difficult to manage by systems that use numerous distributed vBNGs.
