Traditional customer premise equipment is not flexible enough to quickly deploy new services or make changes, requiring on-site support. vCPE frameworks from ALTEN Calsoft Labs provide reusable, high-performance software stacks that network equipment manufacturers can use to develop customized virtual customer premise equipment solutions. The framework supports various operating systems and hypervisors, delivers line-rate performance, and has been used to develop virtual network functions deployed by operators.

1. Traditional Customer Premise Equipment (CPE) do not provide effective ways to deploy and manage new services to meet the varying needs
of customers. These CPEs are not flexible enough to host the rapid introduction of new services. Any change request or introduction of a new
service usually requires either the installation of additional on-site peripherals or even replacement of the existing CPE. The management of
these devices needs on-site support or intervention. This lowers service agility. The associated CapEx and OpEx are of significant concern for
Operators.
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Overview
ALTEN Calsoft Labs vCPE Framework
Reusable high performance DPDK optimized software stack that can be used by Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMs) to develop
customizedvCPEsolutionsfornetworkoperators.
With our vCPE framework, NEMs can get a robust platform to develop vCPE products for different hypervisor and operating system
environments providing seamless integration with ETSI MANO compliant NFV orchestrators. The framework is DPDK optimized to deliver
linerateperformanceinfullyvirtualized(KVM,ESXi)andLinuxContainer(LXC)baseddeployments.
ALTEN Calsoft Labs' field-proven vCPE Framework has been used to develop scalable VNFs for enterprise and residential broadband
networksincludingvCPE,IPSecVPNGateway,TunnelingGateway,VirtualServiceEdgeRouter,etc.thathavebeendeployedbyoperators.
Flexible Deployment Options
† Intel x86 COTS platforms
† OpenStack cloud
† Private and Public clouds
High Performance
† 10G/40G line rate packet processing
† Data path performance scales linearly with number of CPU cores
† Supports VirtIO, SR-IOV, Direct access & PCI pass through modes
vCPE Framework - Highlights
ALTEN Calsoft Labs Services
Alten Calsoft Labs offers product engineering services to NEMs to help them reduce time-to-market to develop high performance vCPE
solutionsforresidentialandenterprisedeployments.Ourservicesinclude:
VNF Development & Customization
Control Plane Orchestration
† Virtual Machines (VMs) managed by OpenStack
† Linux Containers (LXCs) managed by Docker, Kubernetes or Mesos
† OpenStack orchestrated Containers
Modular Architecture
Multiple NIC support
† Customizable data path and control plane
† Niantic 82599, Fortville 10/40G, Third party NICs with DPDK support
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Architect, design and develop VNFs
Support LXC/Para/Full Virtualization architectures
Support for different virtual environments (VMware/KVM/Xen)
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Benchmarking VNF performance in Enterprise/Telco environments
Performance improvements with DPDK based optimization
Fast path optimization using offloading techniques
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Porting from custom silicon to COTS x86 platform
Migration of VNFs across different Hypervisors/OS environments
Testing VNF using industry leading test tools/equipment
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Design and develop FCAPS & VNF lifecycle management framework
Develop VNF packages for deployments such as VPN G/w, Firewall
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Integrate & test with 3 party NFV orchestrators or legacy NMS/OSS
VNF Benchmarking & Performance Tuning
VNF Management & Orchestration VNF Porting & Testing

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Virtual Private Network (VPN)
Site-to-Site & Remote access VPN, Unicast &
Multicast data, IKE-v1, IKE-v2 with Rekey, Virtual IP
Pool, DHCP, Intel CMB, DES/3DES, AES, MD5, SHA1,
SHA256 algorithms, Dead Peer Detection, NAT-T,
IKE Fragmentation, Jumbo frames and 3GPP
standardsTS33.320
Routing
OSPFv2/OSPFv3,RIPv1/RIPv2/RIPng,BGPv4
Tunnelling
MPLS,EoGRE
Universal Plug and Play
SSDP
Firewall
IPtuplebased, Application-awareStateful&
Quality of Service (QoS)
IngressQOS-Metering,EgressQoS-Shaping
Network Address Translation
SNAT,DNAT,Masquerading
VLAN
IEEE802.1Q,802.1ad
IPv4 support
DNS client, ICMP, ARP, Static routing, DHCP server,
clientandrelay, IPv4ACL
IPv6 support
Static routing, DHCP server and client, Neighbor
DiscoveryProtocol,IPv6ACL
Management
CLI,WebGUI,RESTAPIs,Multi-levellogging
Security
DPI, IntrusionIntrusiondetection, prevention
vCPE Features
DIRECT ACCESS ASS THROUGH or SRIOV or VIRTIOor P
OpenStack
Hypervisor OpenStack
Hypervisor Docker
Data Plane
Control Plane
Docker LXC
VM
Control Plane
Data Plane
BARE METAL VIRTUAL MACHINE CONTAINER
LinuxLinuxLinux
Data Plane
Data Plane
Sync
Module
INTEL DPDK
Control
Plane
Control Plane
MANO
FCAPS
VPN NAT
FirewallQoS ACL
RouterVLANIPv6
DPI UTM
EMS
UPnP DHCP
CLI REST
BGP
GUI
IKE
RIP OSPF
Core Network
Data Center Services
AAA UC VOD VAS
Low form
factor CPE
Self-Service
Portal
Access Network
Customer LAN
I/OI/O
vCPE Service Chaining
VNFs built on top of this framework can be used in different service chains or
pipelinestocatertovariouscustomer-specificusecases.
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