Articles from RtBrick

RtBrick today released its ‘State of Disaggregation’ report, examining the current state of networks globally and telecom operators’ efforts to address surging customer demands.

RtBrick today announced that it is partnering with Radisys® Corporation to offer telcos solutions to build IP networks based on open, disaggregated, ‘cloud-native’ architecture.

RtBrick today announced it has added support for the CSR440 switch from Edgecore. RtBrick’s software enables the Edgecore CSR440 to act as a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG), or the router that delivers internet services at the edge of a telco network.

RtBrick today announced it has added high availability capabilities to its routing software to help re-establish network services with only minimal disruption. Broadband access is a critical resource, and it has become increasingly important to protect users from a fiber break or a hardware failure in the access network. The company’s new capabilities add greater redundancy into networks to overcome these challenges and minimize the impact of the most severe network outages.

RtBrick today announced it has delivered the fastest route convergence times in the world, outpacing the speeds currently delivered by traditional systems. It has achieved this on open disaggregated hardware, rather than a legacy monolithic routing system.

RtBrick has added support for a new class of open bare-metal switch that carriers can use to distribute a Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) closer to their subscribers. The UfiSpace S9510-28DC is a small form-factor switch that uses the latest Broadcom Qumran2A chipset, delivering 800Gbps of throughput and supporting thousands of broadband subscribers.

RtBrick has expanded the number of bare-metal switches that carriers can use to build a new generation of broadband networks, integrating its Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) software with two new platforms from Edgecore.

RtBrick has raised the bar on the number of broadband subscribers that can be delivered from white-box hardware. RtBrick has achieved this increase in performance by optimising the system resources on the underlying silicon and taking advantage of a new iteration of its RBFS software, known as RBFS Essentials.

RtBrick has been selected as one of only four software vendors that stood up to the requirements of the TIP OpenBNG RFI (Request for Information), as defined by five Tier-1 carriers: BT, Deutsche Telekom, Telefonica, Telecom Italia Mobile and Vodafone. The OpenBNG project aims to develop a solution that overcomes some of the most critical issues operators presently face when deploying fixed broadband services.

RtBrick has added support for the Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) to its pioneering Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) routing software. DHCP is a popular access protocol used by many telcos and is used for Internet Protocol over Ethernet (IPoE) broadband connections.

RtBrick’s pioneering IP/MPLS routing software has been validated on the latest generation of open hardware platforms, which run on a new chipset from Broadcom, known as Q2C. These high-performance bare-metal-switches take telcos into a new era of choice and scale for both their networking hardware and their software.

RtBrick has set a new benchmark in Internet routing, delivering route convergence on a disaggregated network that is at least as fast as anything seen on traditional proprietary systems.

RtBrick has announced a new Management API for its disaggregated routing software that simplifies the integration with existing OSS and BSS systems. It dramatically reduces the amount of time and effort required to make disaggregated networks operational by using widely adopted industry tools and programming languages.

RtBrick Inc has completed its financial year, which ran from April 2020 through to March 2021. The company completed another cashflow positive year, alongside achieving some notable milestones, and cemented its position as one of the networking industry’s most important industry pioneers.