Carrier Grade Networking at the Edge

While service providers, enterprise transform networks to telco cloud and distributed edge architectures, traffic and subscriber volumes keep climbing. The global pandemic has added to that growth, pushing Internet traffic up 50% in some markets. Service providers, enterprise and educational institutions across the world are scrambling to increase capacity and strengthen security as subscribers work and play more at home, enterprises shift to on-line business models and higher education organizations support remote learning. One area that can quickly get overwhelmed is the CGNAT infrastructure – that capability in service provider and enterprise networks that manages the pool of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses. During this session we are going to discuss the challenges now faced by service providers, including real world case studies.. We will also review some of the CGNAT features and products that comprise A10 Networks Thunder CGN solution and can help optimize existing CGNAT infrastructure, deploy capabilities in new edge architectures, meet short term capacity requirements, extend the IPv4 lifetime and transition to IPv6. The session will cover: •Impact of global pandemic on service provider, enterprise and education institution networks •Market and Network Technology Trends: •On-going need for CGNAT and IPv4 – IPV6 Migration •Security and capacity Challenges in distributed architectures •Real World Case Studies •A10 Networks Thunder CGN Solution