The uCPE Solutions Catalog

Your guide to building second generation SD-WAN with

white box hardware, virtualization platforms, VNFs and

orchestration.

The case for a uCPE ecosystem 3

Why uCPE changes the game for SD-WAN and edge computing

Virtual network functions 4

Our VNF partners provide applications for many different uses including SD-WAN and security

Orchestration 16

Orchestration enables end-to-end automation of large scale deployments

White box solutions 21

White box hardware of any size, from desktop appliances to rack mounted Xeon servers

CPU solutions 29

CPU platforms with virtualization support for white box servers

Virtualization software 32

uCPE virtualization and management software platform

Content

Universal customer premise equipment (uCPE) is changing the

way we create and deliver networking and connectivity services to

enterprises. Bringing NFV principles to the customer premise

helps us reduce costs by centralizing management and consoli-

dating hardware appliances onto a single general-purpose white

box. The real value though, is the flexibility provided by the uCPE

model.

When moving from closed, hardware-centric appliances to the

software-centric and open uCPE model, we can remotely supply

and activate services on demand. We can spin up new services in

an instant by adding or replacing VNFs on the uCPE, or connect a

new location to the network without on-site visits by experts for

provisioning. Moving to uCPE also translates into a higher rate of

innovation for network services. Developing, testing, and deploy-

ing new innovative services is much faster and easier when they

are purely software based and remotely managed. This amazing

agility transforms how we look at network functions, from having

been single-function hardware appliances to services we can test,

deploy, start and stop as we see fit.

uCPE based services are multi-vendor efforts. Our ecosystem, with

its wide field of expertise in different product areas, provides white

box hardware, virtualization, VNFs and orchestration as building

blocks for the solutions used to deliver network services.

The ability to mix and match building blocks from different ven-

dors is important for two reasons. First, it allows us to build best

of breed solutions, adapted to specific use cases or customers.

Not all end users want to have the exact same solution, and by

using different components with different characteristics, we can

tailor network services to different use cases or even individual

users. Second, it prevents vendor lock-in and future-proofs our

solutions. We can extend functionality with new services if the

need should arise, and if we are not satisfied with one compo-

nent or its pricing, we can replace that one component without

having to replace the entire stack or the hardware.

The diversity of a large ecosystem with many partners contrib-

uting their unique expertise through their offerings is one of the

main strengths of the uCPE model. By working together within

our ecosystem, we make sure all those components are availa-

ble for you to use in your solutions and services. This is why the

uCPE ecosystem is so important.

About this catalog

We have made this catalog to show you just how diverse our

ecosystem is, and to give an idea of the many possibilities it

brings you.

The partners you find listed are our public partners. Some already

established partnerships are not public for different reasons, and

those partners are not listed here. We constantly add new part-

nerships, driven by customer requests and deployments.

The Case for a uCPE Ecosystem

Virtual Network Functions

128 Technology 5

6WIND 6

Accelleran 7

Citrix 8

Clavister 9

FatPipe 10

flexiWAN 11

Fortinet 12

Nuage Networks 13

SonicWall 14

Sproute Networks 15

Virtual Network Functions (VNF) provide many different

capabilities to enterprise networking. Our ecosystem

include vendors offering a wide variety of functions such

as SD-WAN, routers, firewalls and security applications.

Some partners are established vendors with well-known

products; others are startups bringing innovative tech-

nologies to market. Some partners also offer their prod-

ucts as open source versions.

The variety in functionality and approaches makes it

possible to tailor services providing different character-

istics, and target various market segments having

unique requirements.

VNF

About 128 Technology

128 Technology empowers service providers and enterprises to

radically reinvent their digital futures with a new model for virtual

networking called Session Smart. Session smart networking

enables businesses to create service-centric fabrics that are

simple, agile, and secure, delivering improved performance at

lower costs.

128 Technology provides the only tunnel-free networking solution

in the industry that enables SD-WAN, cloud networking, 5G, and

IoT. Whether clients are moving their businesses to the cloud,

modernizing the WAN edge, seeking more reliable unified

communications, or pursuing an industrial internet of things (IIoT)

initiative, session smart networking realigns networks with digital

transformation initiatives.

uCPE offering

The 128 Technology Networking Platform can be used to deliver

SD-WAN, campus networks, core networks, SDDC, and multi-

access edge computing (MEC). The software can support a wide

range of white box deployment models including scaling from

small branch offices to high capacity edge routers to hyper-scale

data centers.

Tunnel-free, session smart networking removes overlay

complexity, reduces bandwidth overhead, improves

performances, provides unlimited scale, and allows for granular

control. Zero-trust security ensures superior security.

Hypersegmentation allows granular control and segmentation.

Failsafe delivery ensures uninterrupted session delivery over

heterogeneous networks. Inbuilt WAN optimization, firewall,

and load balancers ensure removal of middleboxes. Routing

with words follows business logic rather than IP address

connectivity only. Zero-touch provisioning allows hundreds of

sites to be deployed in minutes. Application awareness allows

automatic application detection and optimal network utilization.

Cloud-ready networking allows seamless connectivity to public,

private, and hybrid cloud environments. Tunnel-free networking

allows support for 5G and IoT networks.

One of the largest healthcare retain chains with nearly 10,000

sites deployed tunnel-free networking making it the largest full

mesh SD-WAN deployment in the world. They were able to

realize savings of more than $50M USD by moving away from

traditional networking. One of the largest auto parts retailers

with nearly 5,000 sites was able to deploy session smart

networking to all their stores in less than a year making it the

fastest SD-WAN deployment. They improved their uptime to

99.99%. Other customers include Bard Materials, Tokai,

Pindrop, SNET, CMC Networks, NEC, Nicos, SONY, Freebit, and

many others.

The 128 Technology Networking Platform is available on AWS,

Azure, and GCP. It is FIPS-140-2 and ISCA corporate firewall

certified.

More information

www.128technology.com

Product Description

128T Session Smart Router Enables a service-centric control plane and

a session-aware data plane to offer tunnel

-free routing, app classification, visibility,

and proactive analytics.

128T Conductor Single pane of glass providing orchestra-

tion, administration, ZTP, monitoring, and

analytics – with a network-wide, multi-

tenant service and policy data model.

128 Technology

VNF

About 6WIND

6WIND provides networking server software deployed globally for

20 years at Tier-1 OEM, Service Provider and Enterprise

customers.

6WIND’s vRouter is a software router that replaces hardware for

uCPE, Border Router, CG-NAT, VPN Concentrator, Site-to-Site

IPsec VPN, Mobile Security Gateway and Hypervisor Acceleration

solutions. It is deployed bare metal on commercial-off-the-shelf

(COTS) servers, in KVM hypervisors, or in virtual machines (VMs)

such as VMware ESXi, KVM or AWS, with licenses according to

throughput and number of connections. Management includes

CLI and YANG-based NETCONF APIs for integration with third-

party management tools and orchestrators.

6WINDGate is packet processing software in source code form

factor for line-rate Linux networking. It helps OEMs build 5G, TCP,

Telecom Infrastructure and Network Appliance solutions on x86

and Arm processors in months versus years for bare metal, virtual

machine and container applications. Management includes CLI

and YANG-based NETCONF APIs for integration into OEM

systems.

6WIND founded DPDK.org, the industry standard networking

foundation for high performance software applications on

commodity hardware. All 6WIND software products are built

using DPDK.

uCPE offering

6WIND vRouters for uCPE include Turbo Router and Turbo

IPsec software appliances, which are deployed as Virtual

Network Functions (VNFs) and VPN Concentrators. Turbo

Router delivers 16 million packets per second of IP Forwarding

per core, and Turbo IPsec delivers 18 Gbps throughput per

core, both scalable with the number of cores deployed in the

system.

A second vRouter option is Virtual Accelerator, which improves

networking performance and moves the routing, switching,

IPsec and multi-WAN technology into the hypervisor to save

processor cores for VNFs. 6WIND vRouter features include L2,

encapsulations, IPv4 and IPv6 routing, virtual routing, firewall,

IPsec VPNs, NAT, QoS, high availability and more. Management

options include CLI, YANG-based NETCONF APIs and Linux.

A third option is 6WINDGate source code for Linux Networking.

6WINDGate is a complete networking stack based on DPDK

that allows developers to build their own uCPE solutions in

months versus years with optimized performance. 6WINDGate

includes a fast path data plane architecture that removes Linux

bottlenecks by running in user space, outside of the kernel.

6WINDGate provides the foundation for all 6WIND vRouter

products.

More information

https://www.6wind.com/vrouter-solutions/

Product Description

6WIND Turbo Router A high performance vRouter software

network appliance. It is deployed bare

metal or in virtual machines on COTS

servers as a replacement for router hard-

ware.

6WIND Turbo IPsec A high performance IPsec VPN vRouter

software network appliance. It is deployed

bare metal or in virtual machines on COTS

servers as a replacement for security hard-

ware.

6WIND Virtual Accelerator A vRouter software solution to power the

KVM hypervisor with the required features

for virtual routing, switching and IPsec

VPNs as an alternative to SR-IOV and PCI

passthrough.

6WINDGate Accelerated Layer 2-4 networking stacks

to help OEMs build networking products

on x86 and Arm servers with a perfor-

6WIND

VNF

About Accelleran

Accelleran provides Mobile RAN/vRAN software and Small Cell

product solutions addressing the real-world challenges of

increasing data volumes and 5G applications, calling for

hyperdense networks. Accelleran’s unique software architecture is

genuinely independent from any hardware platform. Accelleran is

at the forefront of applying cloud native architectures to the RAN

to create leading edge cellular connectivity solutions for

Enterprises and Mobile Operators.

The Accelleran team has been a recognized leader in the small

cell industry for more than ten years. With an average experience

of 20+ years each, the team offers unrivalled expertise across the

full range of skillsets required for success in the challenging RAN

solution market.

Accelleran is the technology choice for carrier grade, reliable,

performant Small Cells and Radio Access Network software

solutions for Fixed Wireless Access, Public Mobile, Private

Network, Neutral Host or IoT/Vertical solution providers

uCPE offering

Accelleran dRAX™ virtual RAN (Radio Access Network) platform

delivers a true multi-vendor, disaggregated and virtualised RAN

Intelligent Control Plane aligned with O-RAN principles. This

Cloud Native VNF, managed and orchestrated through

Kubernetes, supports 4G and 5G and open integration with

3rd party DUs/RUs which enables true scalability and

interoperability. Coupled with Accelleran E1000 small cells,

Accelleran dRAX provides the foundation for a highly

automated, small footprint intelligent Private Cellular network

implementation.

Accelleran dRAX integrates seamlessly into orchestration

platforms making it a breeze to define end to end services

which include wireless connectivity. Accelleran dRAX lowers the

technology barrier to implement Entreprise cellular networks by

implementing Artificial intelligence techniques to the

configuration and operation of private cellular networks.

Accelleran dRAX allows you to dynamically allocate computing

resources at the right places in your network. You scale on

commodity hardware and you leverage optimized silicon

solutions. Even whitebox hardware becomes reality in the RAN.

And from your centralized intelligent controller you will drive

these commodity DU and RRU’s and optimize spectral efficiency

in hyper-dense networks. Finally, you will unleash innovation at

all levels of the disaggregated RAN components.

More information

https://www.accelleran.com/products/drax-2/

Product Description

Accelleran dRAX Virtualized cloud native 4G and 5G RAN

control plane which forms the basis of

Accelleran

VNF

About Citrix

Citrix is a digital workspace platform that gives employees

everything they need to be productive in one unified experience

while arming IT with the visibility, simplicity, and security needed

to enable and control it all.

Since 1989, Citrix has made it easier for people to access the

applications and content they need to do their very best work –

wherever and whenever work needs to get done. Today, more

than 100 million users across 400,000 organizations – including

99% of the Fortune 500 – trust Citrix to power a better way to

work.

uCPE offering

Citrix SD-WAN is a next-generation WAN Edge solution that

delivers flexible, automated, secure connectivity and performance

that keeps the workspace always-on. Only Citrix SD-WAN

provides:

Unparalleled experience for SaaS, cloud, and virtual

applications

Choice of deployment options with automated connectivity to

the cloud

Integrated visibility and control over all aspects of the WAN

For enterprises and service providers migrating to an open-

standards architecture based on uCPE, Citrix offers the SD-

WAN VPX, a family of virtual appliances for branch

environments.

Purpose-built for the x86-system, Citrix SD-WAN VPX supports

various hypervisors to deliver the highest performance with the

ultimate flexibility. A branch uCPE can seamlessly combine an

SD-WAN VNF (virtual network function) with switching, firewall,

security, or wireless capabilities all on the same platform to

simplify operations and reduce costs.

Citrix recommends adding the SD-WAN Orchestrator, a SaaS-

based provisioning and management application designed to

ease SD-WAN VPX deployment.

More information

https://www.citrix.com/products/citrix-sd-wan/platforms.html

Product Description

VPX-*-SE

(* options: 020, 050, 100,

200, 500, 1000)

Citrix SD-WAN VPX * Mbps Standard

Edition

for dual to eight-core vCPU system

4 to 8 GB memory required

supports Citrix, Microsoft, KVM,

VMware hypervisors

provides a maximum of 8 to 16 virtual

paths

VPX-L *-SE

(* options: 020, 050, 100,

200, 500, 1000)

Citrix SD-WAN VPX * Mbps Standard

Edition (with large scale)

supports sixteen-core vCPU system

16 GB memory required

supports Citrix, Microsoft, KVM,

VMware hypervisors

provides a maximum of 128 virtual

paths

Citrix

VNF

About Clavister

Clavister is the leading European cybersecurity vendor with over

20 years of experience. Seated in Sweden, the company has

customers—communication service providers, governments,

enterprises and managed security service providers (MSSPs)—in

more than 150 countries. Clavister provides unique cybersecurity

solutions to protect their digital assets and secure business

continuity.

Unlike most other cybersecurity vendors Clavister have always

focused on highly optimized SW and virtualization rather than

specialized HW, which makes their performance on very small

footprint to stand out, enabling use of smaller HW or leaving

more room for other VNF’s on the uCPE.

uCPE offering

Clavister delivers high performing SD-WAN Security VNF with full

Next-Generation firewall UTM feature set on smallest possible

footprint.

It is extremely resource efficient and has a lean firmware size of

approx. 25 Mb and is scaling down to run on 1 core, 256 MB

RAM, 128 Mb disk space. This enables using the same security

VNF in the full range of uCPE HW’s. From the very smallest to the

largest.

It runs on both Intel and ARM and can utilize Intel Quick Assist

technology for enhanced VPN performance.

The Security VNF supports Firewalling, Reliable Secure VPN,

Network Attack Protection (IDP/IPS), DoS protection, Web

Content Filtering, Antivirus scanning, IP reputation, Botnet

blocking, Scanner protection, Active traffic optimization,

Application visibility & control (firewall policies based on Enea

Qosmos DPI application classification).

It uses an Ecosystem with best of breed threat feeds from for

example McAfee, Kaspersky, Maxmind, ContentKeeper, Enea

Qosmos and Webroot.

It can also serve as a full SD-WAN VNF including support for

routing, redundant secure links, application control, traffic

shaping and more. This is especially useful on the smallest

uCPE’s with little room for multiple VNF’s.

It is fully redundant supporting high availability.

It has Centralized Management with flexible SDN/NFV

integration to orchestration environment, via REST API.

Analytics and reporting with alerting or log feeds to external

Analytics/SIEM systems via syslog.

The Clavister software is based on proprietary software, making

it less vulnerable to opensource vulnerabilities. It has a very

rapid boot time enabling instant security and maximum uptime.

Flexible license model catering for the needs of service

providers.

More information

http://www.clavister.com

Product Description

Clavister NetWall Virtual Security VNF including resource efficient

and high performing Next Generation

Clavister NetEye Virtual Advanced Threat Protection and secure

content filtering with SSL Inspection and AI

Clavister EasyAccess Multi Factor Authentication and Single-

Sign-On Portal with biometric user valida-

tion support through Clavister OneTouch

mobile app.

Clavister InCenter Holistic Management & Analytics with

dashboards, reporting and alerting. REST

Clavister

VNF

About FatPipe Networks

FatPipe Networks is the inventor of software-defined wide area

networking (SD-WAN) capability. FatPipe offers solutions for

network reliability, Hybrid-WAN redundancy, improved network

performance and security for wide area connectivity. FatPipe

securely manages enterprise and government data traffic for

Datacenter-to-Device™ and Datacenter-to-Branch® connectivity.

FatPipe is the first SDWAN to achieve FIPS-140-2 certification.

FatPipe provides robust application visibility and analytics across

your network. FatPipe currently has 12 U.S. patents and more than

180 technology claims related to multipath, software-defined

networking and selective encryption of broadband networks.

FatPipe, with several thousand customers, has offices in the United

States and around the world, and more than 600 resellers

worldwide. Fatpipe has been selling SDWANs since 2000, when it

released its first Software Defined WAN product.

In independent tests by RingCentral, FatPipe had the highest MOS

score for VoIP quality even at 15% packet loss in the lines, and

FatPipe SDWAN delivered continuity of VoIP calls when a line

failed. Calls were seamlessly transferred from one line to another

without dropping the call. Fatpipe patented technology does not

require wasteful duplication of data packets to ensure seamless

VoIP and data failover.

Fatpipe automatically fails over VoIP, video, VPN and data from

one line to another without dropping the sessions, thus being

suitable for financial transaction and POS systems.

Currently, independent Fatpipe units can process up to 40Gb/s

Ethernet bandwidth and up to 7000 VPN connections. Fatpipe, in

cooperation with Inmarsat, developed technologies that can

significantly reduce data being placed on satellite links, thus

providing savings to satellite customers.

uCPE offering

FatPipe’s Multi-function VNF for WAN Edge offers a

comprehensive set of functions for branch office network.

FatPipe functionality supports the shifting from dedicated

routing and WAN optimization appliances to standalone SD-

WAN universal CPE (uCPE) platforms. FatPipe’s WAN Edge

Infrastructure incorporates a wide set of network functions,

including traditional routing, multi-link load-balancing, security,

SD-WAN, VPN, application aware traffic control, QOS and WAN

Optimization. FatPipe’s WAN Edge Infrastructure functionality

can exist on or off the enterprise premises via physical or virtual

appliances. FatPipe’s Orchestrator manages all aspects of the

configuration and management of the uCPE units.

Fatpipe also provides the most comprehensive Business

Continuity and Disaster Recovery solution for hybrid cloud

networks, between headquarters and data centers, both private

and public, providing inbound load balancing of lines, as well as

multi line failover from one data center to another. Fatpipe

tracks data center failover, sever failover as well as application

failure and accordingly fails over user request to the available

servers.

More information

https://www.fatpipeinc.com/

Product Description

FatPipe Standard – band-

width range 10Mbps – 1

Gbps

Outbound Load Balancing, Split Tunnel-

ing / Local Internet Breakout, Layer 2-7

PRR, QoS, MPSec, Auto Config, Rotating IP

Support, Stateful Firewall, Threshold Based

Failover, IPSec VPN

FatPipe Real-Time – band-

width range 10 Mbps – 1

Gbps

Standard features plus - Selective Encryp-

tion, Seamless Sub-Second Failover

Enterprise – bandwidth

range 10 Mbps – 1

Gbps

Standard & Real-Time features plus –

SmartDNS, L2 and L3 Routing Double NAT

Support, Advanced Routing (BGP, OSPF),

Advanced VLAN Support

FatPipe Orchestrator Orchestrator for up to 2,000 End Points

Optional WAN Optimiza- Compression, Caching, de-duplication,

Optional UTM Add-on for

Web Filter and anti-virus

NextGen Firewall features like Web-Filter

and Virus Checking

FatPipe

VNF

Product Description

flexiEdge SW edge device running bare metal, VM

flexiManage Central multi-tenant management offered

as SaaS by flexiWAN or self-hosted by the

service provider

flexiWAN

About flexiWAN

flexiWAN, the world’s first modular and open source SD-WAN,

was founded by networking, SD-WAN and IP communications

veterans with a mission to democratize SD-WAN and release

service providers and enterprises from the shackles of large

networking vendors. flexiWAN stands out of the SD-WAN vendor

crowd due to two major differentiators: being open source and

having a modular architecture. flexiWAN slices SD-WAN to

horizontal layers where the base layer is the Networking

Infrastructure and on top of that, there is a Networking

Applications Layer that allows for running interchangeable 3rd

party applications. With this, flexiWAN is like Android for routers.

flexiWAN bring to SD-WAN the DNA of open source allowing for

flexibility and vendor agnostic deployments.

uCPE offering

Similar to the benefits offered by flexiWAN, the concept behind

uCPE is to allow for variety of functions and vendor agnostic

solutions. This comes in contrary to bolted solutions that bundle

all the networking functions into one close software box

solution. With flexiWAN, service providers can run select SD-

WAN capabilities in one VNF while adding additional VNFs

offered by vendors of their choice for more advanced

networking tasks.

This gives the service providers the freedom to offer tiered

levels of services while limiting their dependency on a single

vendor.

Moreover, using the flexiWAN modular nature for running

mission critical applications that need to run in the data flow,

along with orchestration of additional VNFs for other

capabilities creates a performance optimized and cost-effective

offering to the end user.

flexiWAN Benefits:

50-90% cost saving –

Reduced SW & HW cost

Efficient sales model

Removing vendor lock-in

Future proof – Integration of future technologies

Differentiation - Service providers can offer differentiated

services

More information

https://flexiwan.com/

VNF

Product Description

FortiGate-VM Series Fortinet FortiGate-VM Series can be used

as a Secure SD-WAN and/or Next

Generation Firewall VNF. It delivers

comprehensive SD-WAN functionality

combined with leading Cybersecurity

capabilities.

Fortinet

About Fortinet

Fortinet (NASDAQ: FTNT) secures the largest enterprise, service

provider, and government organizations around the world.

Fortinet empowers its customers with intelligent, seamless

protection across the expanding attack surface and the power to

take on ever-increasing performance requirements of the

borderless network - today and into the future. Only the Fortinet

Security Fabric architecture can deliver security features without

compromise to address the most critical security challenges,

whether in networked, application, cloud or mobile environments.

More than 450,000 customers trust Fortinet to protect their

businesses. Learn more at https://www.fortinet.com, the Fortinet

Blog, or FortiGuard Labs.

uCPE offering

The heart of Fortinet’s offerings for MSP/MSSPs is the award-

winning FortiGate family, which includes FortiGate-VM virtual

appliances that can be deployed as VNFs. The FortiGate-VM

platform can act not just as a stateful firewall VNF but also provide

other capabilities including IPS, application control, anti-virus,

antimalware, and web filtering. These can be consolidated as a

single VNF in the service chain or with multiple chained FortiGates

in a single-function-per-VNF approach. The FortiGate-VM also

provides other network services including DHCP and NAT.

The FortiGate-VM has been validated in independent NFV

testing by EANTC and NIA to be able to provide routing VNF

services for NFV and virtual CPE, eliminating the need to license

and deploy a separate routing VNF.

One of the hottest trends is software-defined WAN (SD-WAN);

the FortiGate-VM includes key SD-WAN functions including

Application awareness, Application steering, Advanced routing

over any WAN transport including MPLS, Broadband and/or

LTE. In addition, the FortiGate-VM offers deep content

inspection and built-in WAN optimization, bringing security,

networking, and SD-WAN functions in a single package and

license model.

Aside from FortiGate, Fortinet offers a broad lineup of virtual

appliances, including web application firewalls, email security,

advanced threat sandboxing, and application delivery

controllers, all of which can be deployed as VNF services.

More information

https://www.fortinet.com/solutions/enterprise-midsize-business/

network-security.html

VNF

Product Description

Virtualized Services

Platform

The Nuage Networks Virtualized Services

Platform (VSP) provides advanced network

automation across networks and clouds of all

sizes and architectures, from datacenter private

clouds to large enterprise wide area networks

(WANs) and some of the largest public clouds in

the world.

VSP enables large enterprises and

Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to

offer Virtualized Network Services (VNS) offering

the industry’s first SD-WAN 2.0 capability

VSP also enables Virtualized Cloud Services

(VCS) for automated datacenter and cloud

networking. It enables CSPs and their Telco

Cloud deployments as well as large enterprise

data center customers to automate the

configuration, management and optimization of

virtual networks

Nuage Networks

About Nuage Networks

Nuage Networks, a Nokia venture, provides SD-WAN 2.0

solutions to 70+ certified managed service providers and 700+

enterprise customers spanning all markets, as well as the public

sector. Our SD-WAN 2.0 solution is a centrally-controlled, open,

multi-cloud, virtual networking platform. It enables customers to

efficiently and cost-effectively connect all locations and users to

deliver improved application performance with embedded

security throughout the network.

uCPE offering

Nuage Networks VNS is an industry-leading SD-WAN solution. It

automates the provisioning, configuration, and management of

WAN connections to provide the optimal quality of service (QoS)

at the lowest cost while meeting strict business policy and security

requirements for each application. VNS can provide this policy-

based automation while seamlessly connecting WAN branch sites

to on-premises private data centers, public clouds, and provider-

managed VPN networks.

VNS relies on a central policy repository to define business- and

application-specific rules that dynamically optimize WAN links and

remote branch appliances or devices. With VNS, the SD-WAN

enabled network is dynamically optimized to route traffic

governed by specific application policies or by the most cost-

effective network path to meet each application’s performance

criteria. For example, VNS can immediately drive down high

WAN costs by leveraging commodity internet broadband, LTE,

or other low-cost WAN uplinks whenever possible for certain

applications. VNS also can leverage LTE transport as a back-up

transport link for application resiliency programmed on a per-

application basis.

VNS reduces remote hardware and management costs because

it has no requirement for expensive proprietary branch

hardware. With automation capabilities from VNS, the tedious,

time-intensive tasks associated with setting up new sites or VPN

service connectivity or public cloud access can be reduced from

several weeks to a few minutes. VNS gives enterprises greater

flexibility to customize their VPN service on demand, while

eliminating IT overhead at remote sites.

More information

www.nuagenetworks.net

VNF

Product Description

SonicWall NSv Series NGFW and Secure SD-WAN platform with

automated, real-time breach detection

and protection

SonicWall CSC Cloud-delivered unified management,

reporting and analytics with risk meters

and zero touch deployment

SonicWall

About SonicWall

SonicWall has been fighting the cybercriminal industry for over 28

years defending small and medium businesses, enterprises,

service providers and government agencies worldwide. Backed by

research from SonicWall Capture Labs, our award- winning, real-

time breach detection and prevention solutions secure more than

a million networks, and their emails, applications and data, in over

215 countries and territories. These organizations run more

effectively and fear less about security.

The boundaries of digital empires are limitless. What was once a

finite and defendable space is now a boundless territory – a vast

sprawling footprint of devices, apps, appliances, servers, networks,

clouds and users. To survive organisations must be faster,

smarter and more decisive. And that’s not easy to do alone. In

response, SonicWall and the Capture Labs threat research team

work tirelessly to arm organsiations with actionable threat

intelligence to stay ahead in the global cyber arms race.

uCPE offering

Secure SD-WAN is an integral part of SonicWall Network Security

virtual (NSv) series. This platform enables organsiations and

enterprises to build highly available and high-performance

infrastructures whilst reducing cost and increasing flexibility.

Cost effective broadband options such as DSL, 3G/4G/5G can

replace expensive MPLS connections whilst achieving consistent

performance and availability of business-critical applications.

The NSv series can dynamically select paths based on

applications, IP addresses or services and automate application

delivery using link quality, latency, jitter, packet loss or capacity.

SonicWall Capture Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) stops

unknown, zero-day attacks such as ransomware at the gateway

with automated remediation. This multi-engine sandbox

analyses suspicious code to help discover and block newly

developed malware. Real-Time Deep Memory Inspection

(RTDMI) detects and blocks malware that does not exhibit any

malicious behavior and hides its weaponry via encryption. The

collective power of Capture ATP and RTDMI allows the

evolution of malware such as TPM-FAIL to be tracked, detected

and blocked along with existing side-channel attacks such as

Meltdown/Spectre, Foreshadow, PortSmash, MDS, etc.

Capture Security Center (CSC) provides a scalable cloud security

management platform featuring single-sign-on through a

‘single-pane-of-glass’. The SonicWall zero touch service in

conjunction with consumption-based monthly billing is a fast,

reliable and cost-effective way to conduct deployments.

More information

www.sonicwall.com/products/firewalls/nsv-series

www.sonicwall.com/solutions/use-cases/secure-sd-wan

VNF

Product Description

SPAN gateway The cloud-managed WAN router and firewall with

support for application-aware traffic steering, load

balancing, QoS, local Internet breakout, content

filtering, and visibility. The gateway comes in a

series of hardware platforms to accommodate the

different scale and bandwidth requirements. Also

available as a Docker container, integrated

instances in the public cloud, or VM form factor in

VMware, VirtualBox, HyperV, and KVM hypervisors.

SPAN backend For specific use cases where there is a need for a

backend deployment separate from

span.sproute.net, Sproute offers the backend

product, packaged as a set of micro-services.

Sproute Networks

About Sproute Networks

Sproute Networks’ vision is to lead the way to smarter networks

through a distributed software delivery of networking products

and services. Our flagship SPAN service is a unique SD-WAN

solution for securely connecting branches, data centers, public

cloud, users, devices, and SaaS applications. Sproute operates the

service at https://span.sproute.net with highly available and

scalable backend infrastructure. It’s inherently multi-tenant and

also caters to multiple providers (ISPs, MSPs) with support for

white-labeling. SPAN is deployed across the globe at both small

to medium businesses and large enterprises realizing use cases

that range from standalone branch routers for optimized SaaS

access to enterprise-wide VPN solution connecting 1000s of sites.

uCPE offering

At Sproute, we believe that the true value of an uCPE offering

comes from these essential attributes:

a) White-box platform so that customers leverage the best-of-

breed components,

b) Ease of use,

c) Scale to support large deployments and customers securely.

These are in addition to the base enterprise-grade CPE feature

set requirements for a high performing router, firewall, and VPN

gateway with redundancy.

Sproute SPAN is purpose-built from the ground up with these

attributes in mind. Its CPU-architecture-independent software in

a small footprint enables a wide range of white-box platforms,

that run either natively or in a virtual form factor as a VNF.

SPAN can run as a container. Its unique architecture offers

management simplicity: (a) “deploy anywhere” strategy with

zero-touch deployment for instantaneous service tune-ups,

automatic NAT traversal to traverse in-path NAT gateways and

build overlays, and transparent insertion into a brownfield

network, (b) single-pane-of-glass to reduce management

burdens, (c) single-click software update mechanism that

enables features and innovative solutions to customer

requirements, and (d) auto-rollback of last-good software and

configuration in case of errors to ensure that the system stays

up all the time. SPAN’s differentiated enterprise-grade features

include one-click device and link redundancy and an

unparalleled app-based policy framework for L2 circuits, L3

overlays, or direct SaaS breakout such as Office365.

More information

www.sproute.com

Orchestration

Cloudify 17

Cloudops 18

Rift 19

UBiqube 20

Orchestration adds a service perspective to the uCPE model, with ad-

vanced end-to-end automation of workflows and processes. It can break

up the otherwise siloed management tools for the different components

by integrating service fulfillment and assurance with VNF managers, vir-

tual infrastructure management, and platform management into a single

pane of glass. Orchestration solutions typically also provide monitoring

and analytic tools.

Some of our partners offer both commercial and open source orchestra-

tion alternatives.

Orchestration

Product Description

Cloudify Orchestration Management and automation platform to

deliver powerful cutting edge

orchestration for multi clouds, VNFs, uCPE,

physical devices, bare metal, and more.

About Cloudify

Cloudify is an open source, end-to-end orchestration platform

designed to transform network services and multi-cloud

applications, connect branches, deploy and manage multi-access

edge and IoT devices, break down silos and deliver all services

on-demand – automatically, at scale. Cloudify’s open architecture

allows you to orchestrate any CPE, any VNF, on any infrastructure.

Get End-to-End automation built for Modern Cloud Infrastructure

with Cloudify.

Cloudify

uCPE offering

As part of our Orchestration platform, we give customers the

ability to orchestrate their uCPE/SD-WAN solution and deliver

services quickly, efficiently and at scale. Cloudify supplies

orchestration, both CPE-based and cloud-based central

management. With Cloudify you can build a truly open, secure,

pluggable, and best of breed stack and deliver actual real world

NFV & SDN implementations. This is a a game changer for uCPE

and SD-WAN from core to edge.

Cloudify provides multi-domain

orchestration capabilities and an

intuitive user interface:

Multi site deployment

Criteria based placement

Automated site management

Automation of upgrade,

maintenance workflow across sites

Follows the MEC architecture

More information

cloudify.co/solutions/edge-networking/

Orchestration

Product Description

CloudOps CloudMC Hybrid cloud and network services delivery

About CloudOps

CloudOps is a cloud consulting and services company focused on

open source, cloud platforms, networking and DevOps. We help

businesses thrive in a data driven software economy with

successful adoption and operation of cloud platforms, enabling

self-service, utility economics and API-automated, continuous

delivery of IT.

uCPE offering

CloudMC is an API-driven portal to deliver, operationalize and

monetize service offerings. It enables service providers to deliver

their entire portfolio of multi-vendor (open source or proprietary)

CloudOps

IaaS and SDN/NFV products and services to market through a

single pane of glass. Multi-cloud and network service

orchestration management and provisioning, including product

catalogs, licensing, billing, metering/chargeback, and secure-by-

design, role-based access control (RBAC) user management are

at the core of CloudMC. Multi-level multi-tenancy, reseller

enablement and modular platform scalability, create a strong

foundation for building IT ecosystems.

CloudMC has been used in production for over five years and

has deployments with major telecommunications companies

across seven countries (including Canada, USA, UK, Panama,

Colombia, Curaçao and Cayman Islands).

With Enea’s uCPE Manager, CloudMC streamlines and

automates the virtual network function (VNF) on-boarding and

lifecycle management process at scale, empowering service

providers with greater flexibility and control over how they

provision, operate, deliver and monetize virtual network services

with a unified experience for operators, resellers and end users.

More information

cloudmc.cloudops.com

Orchestration

Product Description

RIFT.ware Orchestration and automation platform

with common information model, open

interfaces, and sophisticatred tools.

About RIFT, Inc

RIFT, Inc provides an open sourced and standards-based platform

designed to automate the deployment and operation of

virtualized and containerized network services and functions.

RIFT’s technology, RIFT.wareTM, and RIFT services accelerate

service providers’ efforts to virtualize cloud-based communication

services. RIFT.wareTM empowers enterprises to successfully

deploy virtualized network services on private and hybrid cloud,

and, NFV-enabled virtualized networks. Any network application

built with RIFT technology can intelligently take advantage of any

cloud’s unique capabilities and operate at any scale. RIFT, Inc is a

privately held, global company with offices in the United States

and India.

uCPE offering

RIFT provides standards-based multi-domain orchestration for all

NFV use cases including common uCPE use cases such as

enterprise SDWAN and others. As a service automation and

orchestration platform, RIFT.ware can place Network Functions

(NF) in multiple locations such as on uCPE in enterprise sites or on

data center compute and chain these NFs into end-to-end value-

added services.

RIFT

RIFT, Inc delivers an open, common orchestration and

automation solution, RIFT.ware (the RIFT software), with

dramatically lower deployment cost. RIFT.ware gives service

providers the ability to support multi-VNF and container, multi-

vendor, virtualized Network Services deployed end-to-end

across a choice of data center, cloud, and networking

platforms. RIFT.ware is a cloud native application with a web

front end built for Service Providers to Automate, Manage, and

Orchestrate virtualized network functions and services. The

RIFT.ware commercial version contains capabilities not found in

RIFT.ware Open Source, ONAP, or OSM software and is

proprietary to RIFT, Inc. It includes Web UI, Automation Tools,

Service Orchestrator / NFVO, Domain / Resource Orchestrator,

& G-VNFM. The commercial version of RIFT.ware is designed as

a deployable (scalable and highly available) set of orchestration

engines and automation/visualization tools for commercial use

for workload automation of VNF and Network Service

Onboarding, Testing, & Validation, Service Design, Deployment

& Life Cycle Management functions.

More information

www.riftio.com

Orchestration

Product Description

MSActivator™ Multi-Domain and Multi-Vendor

Integration for Infrastructure Automation is

the essence of the MSActivator™

framework. MSActivator™ uses highly

abstracted device and function modelling

to eliminate the integration pain

associated with distributed infrastructures

and provides an easy path to holistic

Multi-Domain Process Automation.

About UBiqube

UBiqube is the leader in integrated automation technology. Multi-

Domain and Multi-Vendor Integration for Infrastructure

Automation is the essence of the MSActivator™framework.

MSActivator™uses highly abstracted device and function

modelling to eliminate the integration pain associated with

distributed infrastructures and it provides an easy path to holistic

Multi-Domain Process Automation.

Headquartered in Dublin (Ireland), UBiqube has a global presence

of multiple offices and an expanding ecosystem of certified

system integrators building smart infrastructure for Smart World

projects (SmartCities, Industry 4.0, etc).

uCPE offering

Aside from being a more cost effective option compared to

hardware vendor locked legacy alternatives, the most valuable

asset a Universal CPE (uCPE) solution brings to the industry is

feature flexibility. In order to deliver its full potential, a uCPE

solution should not only be about the disintermediation between

the hardware and the software-based functions hosted, but it

should also disintermediate between the software functions

themselves. They should be of any nature and from any vendor

UBiqube

and rearrangeable at will over time. This new approach to uCPE

software design leads to the concept of ‘Dynamic uCPE’ which

factors in the feature churn during the solution’s lifecycle.

The key enabling technology behind this virtual feature

disintermediation is UBiqube’s Integrated Automation Platform,

the MSActivator™. Leveraging the MSActivator™, ENEA-based

uCPE solutions are now evergreen and empower their users

with the freedom to onboard any feature from any vendor and

at any stage over the lifetime of their uCPE installation.

Whether it is integrating new security features, improving and

updating the existing networking stack, or extending the scope

of what the access point can host, whether it is a plain, WAN

connectivity cost-optimization agenda, or a future-proof IoT-

ready, edge architecture that one is considering, the

MSActivator™-empowered ENEA uCPE solution has what it

takes to adapt.

MSActivator™ comes with different editors for both Integration

and Automation tasks and certified uCPE solution designers will

have the means to customize and evolve the solution at will.

More information

https://ubiqube.com

White Box Solutions

Advantech 22

Edgecore Networks 23

Lanner 24

NEXCOM 25

QCT 26

Silicom 27

Supermicro 28

White boxes are general-purpose COTS servers, provid-

ing universal platforms with compute, networking and

storage, for network functions virtualization (NFV).

A single white box can replace the many proprietary

single-function appliances otherwise used for network

functions at the customer premise. Since the white box

is a universal device that any application can run on, it

can remain in place while we replace or add VNFs to

enhance the uCPE’s functionality. That way it is an in-

credibly flexible foundation for the uCPE.

White box

Product Description

FWA-T011 A Slim uCPE with 2 or 4 Intel® Celeron® N3350/

J3455 cores fits entry-level SD-WAN needs in a

palm-sized enclosure. Optional LTE, WiFi & TPM.

FWA-1010VC A tabletop and wall-mount uCPE with 2-8 Intel

Atom® C2000 cores & rich WAN/LAN

connectivity that meets most small to midsize SD

-WAN needs.

FWA-1012VC A tabletop and wall-mount uCPE with 2-8 Intel

Atom® C3000 cores boosts throughput while

PoE, dual-SIM LTE and WiFI enhance

connectivity.

FWA-2012 A 1U rackmount uCPE extends Intel Atom®

C3000 performance to 16 cores & supports

Network Mezzanine Card expansion for extra

ports.

FWA-3050 A 1U rackmount uCPE leverages the Intel®

Xeon® D-2100 for heavier workloads, higher

FWA-5070 1U rackmount uCPE, 8-28 Intel® Xeon®

Processor Scalable cores fits large enterprise,

cloud gateways at the SD-WAN provider PoP

About Advantech

Advantech Cloud-IoT Group is a leading manufacturer of x86-

based network compute platforms designed to enable NFV

Infrastructure anywhere in the network. Built to meet diverse

environmental and mechanical constraints from on-premise edge

servers to wireless access nodes, including base station routers,

vRAN and MEC servers, in pole-mounted cabinets or virtual

central offices, Advantech offers the foundational hardware

building blocks for virtualizing, automating and deploying

innovative new applications and services for the converged

network edge.

uCPE Offering

Advantech’s open white-box uCPE designs, built on standard

Intel® processors in feature-flexible appliances, provide the range

of bare-metal server platforms needed by service providers to

transform conventional deployment models in the enterprise

WAN. Advantech’s white box uCPE range covers multiple

configurations and price points from S to XL.

The FWA-T011, FWA-1010VC and FWA-1012VC offer a broad white

-box choice at the entry level, scaling from 2 to 8 cores.

Encryption and compression acceleration are supported using

Intel® QuickAssist on Intel Atom® based Advantech platforms,

Advantech

with DPDK providing the technology needed to accelerate

packet handling by up to 10x. Optional networking modules

offer a highly flexible WAN connectivity choice of hybrid LTE,

WiFi, xDSL & SFP+ configurations.

Service providers can scale their uCPE deployments with

Advantech’s FWA-2012, FWA-3050 and FWA-5070 whitebox

appliances. This range of versatile 1U rackmount platforms also

offers flexible WAN connectivity supporting multiple site-to-site

communication protocols, broadband internet and 4G LTE

through field-replaceable expansion modules. They can be

configured to meet any enterprise needs using Network

Mezzanine Cards that can be populated with a choice of 1, 10,

25, 40 and 100 GbE interfaces. Integrated Intel® QuickAssist

Technology accelerates execution of crypto algorithms including

IPSec without burdening the CPU. As a result, secure branch

connectivity including end-to-end encryption can be provided

without compromising VNF performance or increasing cost. The

three platforms have been designed for high availability

networks with integrated fail-safe redundancy and advanced

remote security and management features that minimize

system down time.

More information

www.advantech.com/nc or www.ucpe.tech

White box White box

About Edgecore Networks

Edgecore Networks Corporation is a wholly owned subsidiary of

Accton Technology Corporation, the leading network

ODM. Edgecore Networks delivers wired and wireless networking

products and solutions through channel partners and system

integrators worldwide for data center, service provider, enterprise,

and SMB customers. Edgecore Networks is the leader in open

networking providing a full line of 1GbE, 10GbE, 25GbE, 40GbE,

50GbE, and 100GbE open and OCP switches that offer choice of

NOS and SDN software for data center, telecommunications, and

enterprise network use cases.

Product Description

SAF51015I Intel Atom C3758 CPU (8C, 2.2 GHz)

4x 10GE SFP+ thru SoC NIC, 4x 1GE RJ45

thru Intel I350, 4x 1GE RJ45 thru Intel I210

SAF51003I Intel Atom C3558 CPU (4C, 2.2GHz)

2x GE RJ45 thru Intel SoC NIC, 8x GE RJ45

thru Intel I350

SAF51001I Intel Atom C3558 CPU (4C, 2.2GHz)

1x SFP, 1x RJ-45 GE combo thru Intel I210 ,

1x RJ45 GE port thru CPU built-in

controller, 8 xRJ-45 GbE thru MRVL

98X3236

SAF4101I Intel Xeon D-1517 CPU (4C/8T, 1.6GHz)

1x 10 GE SFP+ thru Intel SoC NIC, 1x 1GE

SFP and, 1x 1GE RJ45 x 1 thru Intel I210,

and 8x 1GE RJ45 thru MRVL 88E6190X

SAF4100I Intel Xeon D-1508 CPU (2C/4T, 2.2GHz)

1x 10 GE SFP+ x1 thru Intel SoC NIC, 1x

1GE SFP, 1x 1GE RJ45 thru Intel I210, 8 x

1GE RJ45 thru MRVL 88E6190X

uCPE offering

The Edgecore Network Appliance Platform utilizes standard

Intel ®x86 architecture that provides openness and flexibility to

fulfill various use cases in different vertical markets. With the

advent of SDN and NFV, the platform supports open-source-

based software or 3rd party VNFs in SDN/NFV infrastructure

that enable Service Providers to deliver and deploy innovative

services and applications with agility and scalability.

More information

www.edge-core.com

Edgecore Networks

White box

Product Description

Lanner LUNA-D125 (XS)

Intel® Atom® C2316 Processor (Codenamed Rangeley)

Lanner NCA-1515 (S) 2C-4C

Lanner NCA-1515 (M) 8C-16C

Intel® Atom® C3000 Processor (Codenamed Denverton)

Max. 4x RJ45, 1x Gen3 Bypass, 2x SFP & 2x

Lanner NCA-2510 (M) Single P/S

Lanner NCA-2512 (M) Dual P/S

Intel® Atom™ C3000 CPU 8 ~16 Cores (Codenamed Denverton)

5x GbE RJ45, 4x 10G SFP+, 1x NIC Module

Lanner NCA-4010 (L) Intel® Xeon Processor D-1518/1548 Processor (codename Broadwell-DE

16x RJ45 and 2x 10G SFP+ or 8x RJ45, 1x NIC

Lanner NCA-5520 (L) 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family (Skylake-SP/Cascade Lake-SP)

Lanner NCA-5710 (XL) Dual 2nd Gen Intel® Xeon® Processor Scalable Family (Skylake-SP/Cascade Lake-SP)

4x 10G SFP+ or 4x RJ45, 4x NIC Module Slots

Lanner

About Lanner Electronics Inc.

Lanner Electronics Inc (TAIEX 6245) is a world leading provider of

design, engineering and manufacturing services for advanced and

customizable SDN and NFV network computing appliances for

system integrators, service providers and application developers.

Lanner possesses a wide range of network appliances including

vCPE gateways designed for SD-WAN and SD-Security, as well as

NEBS-compliant, NFVi-ready platforms with multiple processors,

network I/O blades, and high availability features.

www.lannerinc.com

uCPE offering

Lanner provides complete range of desktop/rackmount uCPE

appliances powered by the latest generation of high core-count

x86 processors. Pre-validated with major VNF makers and built

in open architecture for wide compatibility, Lanner uCPE

platforms are boosted by the DPDK, SR-IOV, delivering

significant throughput enhancement when running multiple

compute-intensive VNFs in SDN/NFV infrastructure.

More information

http://www.lannerinc.com/telecom-datacenter-appliances/vcpe/

ucpe-platforms/

White box

Product Description

TCA 5170 1U Rackmount uCPE

Intel® Xeon® Skylake-D SoC Processor

8x GbE RJ45, 4x 10GbE Fiber, 2x LAN Modules Expansion

Support Intel® QAT

Optional TPM, WiFi, LTE support

Power Redundancy

DTA 1160 Desktop uCPE

Intel® Atom® SOC C3758

6x GbE RJ45, 2x 10GbE SFP+

Support Intel® QAT

Support SRIOV

Optional TPM, WiFi support

DTA 1161 Desktop uCPE

Intel® Atom® SOC C3558

4x GbE RJ45, 2x Combo ports

Support Intel® QAT

Optional TPM, WiFi6, LTE/5G support (dual SIM slots)

DTA 1152 Fanless Desktop uCPE

Intel® Atom® SOC C2516

4x GbE RJ45

Support Intel® QAT

Support TPM

NEXCOM

About NEXCOM

NEXCOM International was founded in 1992 and is headquartered

in Taipei, Taiwan. Integrating diverse capabilities, NEXCOM

operates six global businesses, including the Network and

Communication Solutions (NCS) unit, which focuses on high

performance computing and network technology and is

committed to helping customers build network infrastructure.

NCS’ network application platforms are widely adopted in CDN,

UTM, Cyber Security Appliance, Load Balancer, Router, uCPE, SD-

WAN, and other network applications.

uCPE offering

NEXCOM provides reliable and effective uCPE hardware for NFV-

based edge computing, as well as service provisioning and agility,

thus greatly reducing capital investment and operational expenses

incurred from deploying amidst an ever-changing networking

landscape. The wide range of product lines NEXCOM offers, from

SOC-based platforms to Intel x86 appliances, from compact-size

desktop to modularized rackmounts with flexible configurations

and high availability, helps IT personnel embrace the world’s

challenging dynamics.

NEXCOM is proud to offer two platforms. The TCA 5170 series,

a verified Intel® Select Solutions for uCPE, is a rackmount

appliance based on the powerful Intel® Xeon® D processor,

with optimized software stack. Desktop network security

appliance DTA 1160 helps small- and medium-sized enterprises

build a securely connected workplace. Based on the new Intel

Atom® processor C3000, the DTA 1160 packs excellent

performance per watt, accelerated data cryptography, and

server-grade LAN functions into a small form factor. This

desktop network security appliance creates safe network

communication environments for connecting employees to

offices.

More information

www.nexcom.com/products/network-and-communication-

solutions/edge-cloud-solutions/sd-wan-appliance

White box

Product Description

EGT13R-DT Sub-entry, low cost, low power, fanless desktop

uCPE design based on Intel 2 core C2316 SOC,

supporting LTE/Wifi connection with 4 GbE RJ45

ports or 5 GbE switch ports.

EGT23D-DT Entry-level, fanless desktop uCPE design based

on Intel C3000 SOC, featuring up to 12 cores,

supporting LTE/5G/Wifi6 connection with 2 GbE

WAN ports and 4 GbE RJ45 LAN ports.

EGD33IL-1U Mid-Range 1U design for both uCPE and MEC

applications. Based on Intel Xeon D SOC,

EGD33IL-1U is NEBS ready, complies with OTII

and ORAN specs, and supports 1x FHFL and 1x

FHHL PCIe expansions with redundant power

supplies and hot-swappable fans.

EGX66YQ-2U Performance 2U design for MEC applications.

Based on dual Intel Xeon SP processors,

EGX66YQ-2U is NEBS ready, complies with OTII

& ORAN specs, and supports up to 8x PCIe

expansions including 2x DW FHFL expansions.

About QCT

Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT) is a global telecoms and data

center solution provider. We combine the efficiency of hyperscale

hardware with infrastructure software from a diversity of industry

leaders to solve next-generation telecoms and data center design

and operation challenges.

uCPE offering

QCT uCPE offerings range from sub-entry desktop to mid-range

1U products, delivering various levels of connectivity and excellent

performance. The desktop version is built on Intel Atom SOC,

featuring a low-power fanless design and an elegant outlook. The

1U version is powered by Intel Xeon-D SOC,

delivering high performance, flexibility, and

availability with its modular design, redundant

power suppliers, and hot-plug fans. It also

comes with two expansion slots: one OCP 3.0

QCT

for additional network ports, and one PCIe*16 FHFL for either

network ports or FPGA cards.

Both desktop and 1U versions have one mini-PCIe slot for a wifi

module and one M.2 for LTE/5G connection. The LTE/5G

module supports use of dual SIM cards. They also come with 6

antennae: 2 for wifi and 4 for LTE/5G.

1U EGD33IL-1U can be used for MEC applications. Together with

2U EGX66YQ-2U, these products offer superior flexibility with

versatile expansions to fulfill the workloads in diverse mobile

edge scenarios. All these products meet OTII and ORAN

specification and are NEBS compliant.

More information

For more information, visit https://go.qct.io/telco/

White box

Product Description

uCPE Madrid

Desktop

Based on Intel Atom® C3000 Processor, Silicom’s

uCPE Madrid is a highly flexible network edge

device with two form factors: Desktop and 1U. 1U

LTE and Wi-Fi

enabled VCPE

Silicom’s LTE and Wi-Fi enabled CPE is a low-cost

Mini-IXT edge device based on the Intel Atom®

C2000 Processor with Sierra Wireless CAT6 LTE

and Compex Wi-Fi.

uCPE Modular

Universal CPE

uCPE Modular Universal CPE based on Intel

Atom® C3000 Processor is a flexible low-cost

network edge device designed to deploy next-

Barcelona uCPE Silicom’s Barcelona series uCPE is based on the

Intel® Xeon® D-2100 Processor. It replaces

traditional purpose-built CPE hardware with a

About Silicom Ltd. Connectivity Solutions

Silicom Ltd. is an industry-leading provider of high-performance

networking and data infrastructure solutions. Designed primarily

to improve performance and efficiency in Cloud and Data Center

environments, Silicom’s solutions increase throughput, decrease

latency and boost the performance of servers and networking

appliances, the infrastructure backbone that enables advanced

Cloud architectures and leading technologies like NFV, SD-WAN

and Cyber Security.

uCPE offering

Silicom’s uCPE product line includes an extensive range of highly

flexible network edge devices that bring the agility of modular

LAN, WAN, management, and compute to

cost-sensitive applications in SD-WAN, CPE,

Security, Small Cell, MEC, vRAN, Cell Site,

Cloud Edge, Aggregation Router and IoT

markets.

Silicom’s uCPE and Edge offerings offer

various processor configurations to meet

Silicom

range of use-case needs, starting with entry-level products with

a dual core - up to 20 cores. Devices may include direct

Ethernet and/or switched Ethernet connections as required to

interface to user terminals, or any type of POE (Power Over

Ethernet) Edge devices. such as Wi-Fi repeaters, IP cameras,

Small Cells and IOT devices.

Silicom has contributed its modular concept to the OCP,

enabling every company to design proprietary IO Interfaces as

needed to accommodate their customers’ needs. The

modularity of Silicom’s products is also enhanced by their

compatibility with a wide range of wired interfaces, such as G-

FAST, VDSL, GPON, and wireless interfaces, such as the latest

Wi-Fi 802.11ax, LTE/4G and readiness for 5G.

Silicom’s unique microBMC-based remote management

technology implements a baseboard management controller

that addresses a major disadvantage of uCPE (universal

customer premises equipment) and MEC (multi-access edge

compute) deployments: the location of the managed baseboard

on a remote Edge device or in a street cabinet, with

maintenance and alert handling efforts requiring a physical

presence. When Silicom’s remote management technology,

these devices are able to offer lights out management

capability, power failure alerts (“dying gasp”) and/or sensing of

unauthorized physical tampering.

More information

https://www.silicom-usa.com/cats/edge-networking-solutions/

edge-cpes/

White box

Product Description

5019-D-FN8TP 1U super server, Intel Xeon D-2164NT 8 cores.

E300-9D-8CN8TP Mini 1U server, Intel Xeon D-2146NT 8 cores.

E300-9D Mini 1U server, Intel Xeon D-2123IT, 4 cores.

1019D-16C-FHN13TP 1U super server, Intel Xeon D-2183IT, 16 cores.

About Supermicro

A global leader in high performance, high efficiency server

technology and innovation. Develop and provide end-to-end

green computing solutions to data center, cloud computing,

enterprise IT, big data, HPC, and embedded markets.

uCPE offering

Supermicro’s Intel Select Solutions for uCPE are verified software

and hardware stacks that that easy to deploy and workload-

optimized. With this solution, server providers are able to quickly

and efficiently deploy various NFV applications with improved

security and ease of operation. This solution eliminates the need

for proprietary purpose-built servers that are hard to manage and

maintain.

Supermicro

Featuring tested and optimized configurations, Supermicro’s

solutions enable end users to save time, effort, and expense

evaluating hardware and software options. Supermicro’s

verified Intel® Select Solutions for uCPE will help end users

simplify design choices by bundling hardware and software

components for optimal performance. Whether using an

Ubuntu OS or a neutral Orchestrator such as ENEA,

Supermicro’s uCPE products benefit all certified models.

More information

https://www.supermicro.com/en/products/embedded/ucpe

Semiconductor Vendors

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At the heart of the uCPE is the processor. Our semiconductor

vendor partners provide CPUs scaling for use in everything from

entry-level desktop devices to high-end rack-mounted servers. The

development of new architectures and devices with integrated

virtualization support has enabled virtualization of networking

equipment using standard COTS servers.

CPU

About Ampere

Ampere is designing the future of hyperscale cloud and edge

computing server processor architecture. Born in and built for the

cloud with a modern architecture, Ampere gives customers the

freedom to accelerate the delivery of the most memory-intensive

applications such as artificial intelligence, big data, machine

learning and databases in the cloud. The Ampere eMAG family of

products delivers the highest memory throughput and lowest

TCO tailored for the emerging growth of cloud computing and

next-generation data centers.

uCPE offering

Ampere’s eMAG 64-bit multi-core processors are custom built for

large-scale cloud and edge environments. They support

accelerated delivery and deployment of cloud workloads within a

power envelope of 45 W—125 W. The devices also features

enterprise grade Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS)

capabilities and Arm server standards compliance, providing an

overall substantial reduction in the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO).

Ampere eMAG 32 core ARM v8 processors enable more VNFs

and higher performance for uCPE designs.

More information

www.amperecomputing.com

Product Description

eMAG 8 core ARMv8 processor

45 W TDP

Suitable for desktop devices

eMAG 8140 16 core ARMv8 processor

75 W TDP

Suitable for 1U rackmounted devices

eMAG 8180 32 core ARMv8 processor

125 W TDP

Suitable for 1U rackmounted devices

Ampere

CPU

About Arm

Arm technology is at the heart of a computing and connectivity

revolution that is transforming the way people live and businesses

operate. Our advanced, energy-efficient processor designs have

enabled intelligent computing in more than 160 billion chips and

our technologies now securely power products from the sensor to

the smartphone and the supercomputer.

Arm Neoverse enables the infrastructure transformation where

processing is pushed to the edge by providing a secure and

scalable platform at a world-class compute efficiency. The

Neoverse platform is designed for driving high throughput

performance with multithreading support while keeping power

use at a minimum.

Arm’s vision with Neoverse is about more than just processor IP. It

is about delivering a complete infrastructure platform and the

elements required to enable a robust ecosystem of software,

SoCs, systems and tools. To further Arm adoption in the

infrastructure market, we contribute to over 100 open source

projects and over 25 standards organizations. This work spans

operating systems, languages, libraries, tools, virtualization

technologies and workloads heavily focused on the cloud native

application space.

uCPE offering

The Universal CPE adds flexibility and cloud-like functions to the

customer site, disrupting the traditional single function closed box.

Product Description

Arm 64-bit

4 Cores

Designed for low-end with 1-2 Gbps throughput, 4-8

GB RAM and fan less cooling, Arm silicon partner

models include: Marvell Armada 8040, NXP LS1048

Arm 64-bit

8 Cores

Designed for mid-end with 2.5-6 Gbps throughput, ,

8-32 GB RAM and with fan/fan less cooling, Arm

silicon partner models include: Marvell Armada 8082,

NXP LS2088A

Arm 64-bit

12-16 Cores

Designed for high-end with 7-15 Gbps throughput,

32-64 GB RAM and with fan cooling, Arm silicon

partner models include: NXP LX2120A, NXP LX2160A,

Ampere 8140

Project PARSEC A microservices platform that provides a common

API that abstract various security primitives allowing

applications to be securely deployed without having

to change a line of code.

Project ELIOT An Enterprise edge lightweight and IOT project

under the Akraino Blueprint aimed at advancing

uCPE standards.

DPDK for Arm64 LF project that provides OSS data plane libraries and

network interface drivers that move TCP packet

processing higher up the stack to run in user space.

Brings rich and heterogenous compute to the Edge

Provides a platform for the delivery of services through a

catalog of popular VNFs and CNFs

Delivers best power to performance at optimal cost

Creating a universal platform that scales with your customer’s

needs requires a compute platform that is optimized for a wide

range of enterprise workloads. Arm based uCPE solutions

enable service providers to offer a variety of software driven

enterprise services through a catalog of cloud native VNFs and

CNFs that are optimized for Arm architecture. Arm based

hardware platform portfolio fits enterprises of all sizes, small,

medium and large, while maintaining a unified software

infrastructure. The Arm Cortex and Neoverse architecture-based

platforms deliver a host of architectural and implementation

features targeting Edge use cases. With programmable

acceleration libraries, integrated packet processor in SoCs, and

Arm Trustzone security, Arm offers a better performance to cost

solution for uCPEs. Our silicon partners leverage the Arm

architecture to deliver scalability from 25Gbps in 4W CPU power

budget to mutli-100Gbps systems.

As a platinum member of the CNCF, Arm leads opensource

community projects to advance cloud native development for

the Edge. Arm also participates in several OSS projects with a

focus on architecture and conformance.

More information

https://www.arm.com/solutions/infrastructure

Arm

Virtualization

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The virtualization layer is essentially the uCPE operating system, providing

virtualized resources to the VNFs. The virtualization layer makes it possible

to run several VNFs from different vendors on the same uCPE, connecting

them in service chains, and managing their lifecycles.

A scalable virtualization layer can host VNFs on cost-efficient white boxes

for the most cost-sensitive use cases and scale up for demanding use cas-

es with many VNFs and high throughput.

For systems integrators, the virtualization layer is in many ways the focal

point of the uCPE, because it is where all other components come together

and integrate.

Virtualization

About Enea

Enea is a global software company focusing on software compo-

nents for telecommunications and cybersecurity, and has devel-

opment centers and sales offices across Europe, North America

and Asia. Three billion people rely on systems with embedded

Enea software when they use mobile phones and connect to the

Internet.

Data communication solutions have been Enea’s core business

since the company was founded over 50 years ago. Enea was the

first company in the Nordics to connect to the Internet, and re-

ceived Sweden’s first email. Enea also registered Sweden’s first

Internet domain, and in the early stages of the Internet, was the

hub for all Internet traffic in Sweden. Enea has been a pioneer in

the emergence of the Internet and mobile data communication.

uCPE offering

Enea provides pure-play software platforms for uCPE and SD-

WAN use cases, designed for flexibility and cost-efficiency. The

platform allows managed service providers to build multi-vendor

solutions, mixing and matching best-of-breed components to

provide differentiated services to different customer segments or

even customized for individual customers.

Enea NFV Access is a virtualization platform designed and opti-

mized for deployment on white box hardware at the customer

Product Description

Enea NFV Access Low footprint NFVi software platform for uCPE

and NFV

Enea uCPE Manager VIM and VNF lifecycle management with

automation and secure ZTP

premise. Open and standardized interfaces ensure support for

any white box, any VNF, and any orchestration. It also allows

replacing VNFs in already deployed uCPE, future-proofing the

solutions.

Using NETCONF-based management instead of OpenStack,

Enea NFV Access significantly reduces the platform’s hardware

footprint to allow fully featured secure SD-WAN solutions to fit

the most cost-efficient uCPE white boxes with as little as 2 cores

and 2 GB memory, and scale to high-end deployments with

several VNF service chains.

The uCPE virtualization platform includes features such as se-

cure boot, zero touch provisioning, software upgrades and

patch management, machine and container virtualization, opti-

mized data plane communications and service function chain-

ing.

Enea uCPE Manager is a cloud native management component

providing Enea NFV Access with centralized management func-

tionality ranging from zero touch provisioning, VNF onboard-

ing, VNF lifecycle management and platform lifecycle manage-

ment to integration with orchestration and automation.

More information

www.enea.com/nfv

Enea

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