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5G Virtual Access Gateway Function (vAGF)

The Benu Networks 5G virtual access gateway function (5G vAGF) offers advanced subscriber management, dynamic routing capabilities, as well as a robust set of functionalities that empower 5G service providers to manage their fixed line subscribers with their 5G core. Not only does this enable consolidated fixed and mobile billing, but more importantly, it offers the full promise of fixed mobile convergence so that the subscriber experience is consistent and seamless across home, business, and 5G networks.

As a part of the Benu SD-Edge Platform, the vAGF provides a breadth of functionalities including:

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Key Highlights

Edge Application Agility• Network slicing to optimize solutions

like teleworker and enterprise SASE• Open APIs for programming built-in

network functions for the Edge• Third-party low latency application

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Low Latency and Jitter• Latency < 10 microseconds • Jitter 200 nanoseconds

Scalable Capacity• 1Gbps – 200Gbps cloud-native

software solution• Terabit throughput using hardware

offload • Up to a million subscribers per node

Flexibility • Flexible Edge – 2Core VM to 56 Core

whitebox compute node• Intel and ARM bare-metal, KVM,

VMware and Openstack Virtual Machines or Containers

• Control and User Plane Separation (CUPS) support

Operations Efficiency• High availability (HA) support• Operations portal• NetConf / Yang management• gNMI and Kafka bus for analytics

• 5G Device Level Policies

• Analytics• DPI • Authentication • Authorization • Accounting• IP Addressing

• Bandwidth Management and HQoS

• MPLS PE• Multicast• Service Policies• Lawful Intercept

The Benu Networks SD-Edge Platform evolves BNG design and functionality to support 5G, AGF, FMIF, & UPF:

Converged Subscriber Management & Routing

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With the 5G AGF on the Benu SD-Edge Platform, service providers are able to:• Simplify Network – eliminate dependencies on

hardware and legacy equipment, plus leverage an intelligent data plane to consolidate multiple network functions

• Increase Performance – best-in-class performance at the lowest cost

• Future-Proof Network – elastic scalability and ability to add any new service slice to meet current and future customer needs

• Rapidly Realize ROI – lower total cost of ownership coupled with the ability to swiftly implement new revenue streams helps teams quickly see return on their investment

Deployment Options:The Benu Platform offers hybrid deployment options, seamlessly fitting into the network architecture already in place, for a truly frictionless virtualization option. These options include:

• Benu xMEG Appliances (xMEG-10, 100, and 200)• Bare Metal• Virtual Machine• Containers

Support for KVM, VMWare, OpenStack, and cloud-native virtual environments, and standards-based support for third-party VIMs and controllers as well as Kubernetes, with extensive interoperability testing performed at ETSI plugfests.

With flexibility in scaling from as small as 2 cores to as many as 56 physical cores, the Benu SD-Edge Platform can be deployed at the Far Edge, Near Edge, or Data center.

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The Benu 5G vAGF helps service providers rapidly achieve their vision for agility by streamlining packet processing as well as separating the control plane and data plane for dynamic scaling, added agility, optimal net-work performance, and cost reduction.

The flexible, open architecture supports advanced services from Benu and third-parties on top of the breadth of functionality native to the vAGF. Service providers can now consolidate functions such as TDF/DPI, BNG, WAG/TWAG, and 5G AGF into a single virtualized platform for ultra-low latency and high performance.

With the vAGF, service providers can increase revenues:• Service agility with pre-

packaged cloud-based services such as teleworker SASE

• 3rd-party service stitching • Services are not limited by

CPE capabilities, enabling consistent service offerings and user experience across the entire install base

As well as decrease costs with:• Cost-effective distributed

CUPS-based architecture• Consolidate functions (TDF/

DPI, BNG, WAG/TWAG, AGF) in single virtualized platform

• Selectively use hardware acceleration

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Features

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Authentication

Traffic Management

Services

• IPoE• PPPoE• GRE• IPSec• L2TPv3• QinQ

• DHCP• RADIUS• S2a• Rest API• 5G core N1 interface• 5G core N2 interface

• 5G core N3 interface• ACL • Advance DNS ACL• DNS• Wall Garden• CGNAT• Inline Service Stitching

(SFC/NSH)• H-QoS• DSCP Marking

• Teleworker Services• Fingerprinting• Security• Analytics• Usage Based Billing• Home Services• Parental Control• Cloud Security• Business Services• Cloud Firewall

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