Experience AWS at SCTE Cable-Tec Expo ‘23

This presentation describes Ciena BNG cloudification – a broadband technology frontier built on vBNG and DBNG. The Ciena BNG cloudification is about running vBNG control plane and vBNG user plane on AWS cloud. It is driven by three use cases identified by Telco customers today:

1. Managing user plane from cloud,
2. Disaster Recovery, and
3. Capacity on Demand. The solution will bring to broadband operators the benefits of
1. higher BNG resiliency,
2. dynamic capacity scaling, and
3. cost saving.

The presentation shows Ciena and AWS’s collaboration in the BNG cloudification design and prototyping on behalf of our common Telco customers.

Casa Systems and AWS are jointly conducting a PoC “Casa vBNG Control Plane on AWS Cloud and Data Plane on Premises.” This solution will benefit the broadband operators with the flexibility of deploying, scaling, and managing vBNG Data Plane instances in different locations or different environments by the central vBNG Control Plane in the cloud. It also brings the potentials of cloud-native services such as CI/CD automation and AI/ML analytics to the operators.

At Casa’s SCTE booth, we’re to demonstrate the Casa vBNG Control Plane on AWS Cloud which manages aCasa vBNG Data Plane on premises. We further explain this demonstration through a presentation.

To overcome the shortcomings of the traditional DR practices, Harmonic and AWS are jointly developing a CableOS DR solution using AWS Cloud. CableOS is Harmonic’s software-based broadband platform with virtualized Cable Module Termination System (vCMTS), virtualized Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG), and virtualized Optical Line Terminal (vOLT). The CableOS has been used by several major broadband service operators including Comcast, Charter, Vodafone, and Rogers. By leveraging the economies of cloud scale, cloud elasticity, and cloud Pay-as-You Go service model, the AWS-based CableOS DR solution will help operator reduce their CapEx spendings and increase DR operation efficiency.

This presentation describes the motivation, concept, and high-level architecture of Harmonic’s AWS-based CableOS DR solution.