Delta Electronics, Inc. Collaborates with RtBrick on World's First Disaggregated OpenBNG Featuring Broadcom Qumran2c ASIC
July 27, 2021 at 09:00 am EDT
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Delta Electronics has announced a networking collaboration with RtBrick to create the world's first disaggregated OpenBNG (Broadband Network Gateway) platform. Acting as the link between subscribers and the Internet, the OpenBNG hardware offers telecom providers increased agility – which is missing from today's monolithic, vendor-locked BNG hardware - when responding to growing demand from subscribers. Delta's OpenBNG platform is based upon Broadcom's Qumran2c open networking hardware ASIC and complemented by a modular software concept delivered by RtBrick. Furthermore, it reflects the changing role of BNGs in some network configurations which also sees them handling authentication, authorisation, accounting (AAA), security policies, subscriber access and management, along with Quality of Service (QoS) functions. Present telecom providers rely on large, monolithic platforms from their suppliers to implement carrier network infrastructure. Such legacy equipment has increasingly proven to be too costly in recent years and lacks the flexibility needed to respond to rapidly growing subscriber and bandwidth demands. OpenBNG, as defined by the Telecom Infra Project (TIP), aims to devise a common open platform which leverages open APIs and Zero-Touch Provisioning (ZTP) to enable external components to interact with the devices. The proposed disaggregated approach leverages modular software running on open hardware. As a result, telecom operators avoid vendor lock-in, thereby benefiting from a vibrant hardware and software supplier market in an open eco-system. In turn, they will be able to respond rapidly to market needs, deploying or upgrading BNGs according to changing demand. Through its participation in TIP, Delta is able to collect first-hand feedback from tier-1 telecom operators in order to develop an optimised hardware platform that fulfills their various requirements.
Delta Electronics Inc is a Taiwan-based company principally engaged in the manufacture and sales of power supplies and components. The Company operates through three segments. Power Supply and Components segment provides components, embedded power supplies, automotive electronics, commercial products, mobile power supplies, fans and thermal management solutions. The Automation segment provides industrial automation, building automation and other services. The Infrastructure segment provides information infrastructure, energy infrastructure and industrial solutions, and projection business. The Company's products are mainly sold to the United States, Europe, Japan and other regions.