MTS-BNG Service Routers

2025: Development of BRAS/BNG Service Routers

MTS PJSC has independently developed BRAS/BNG service routers for controlling and aggregating user traffic of fixed Internet on the transport network. The own solution in the form of software on available servers will replace the equipment of foreign manufacturers. MTS development has passed certification, testing on the existing infrastructure and is preparing for a large-scale launch in various regions of Russia. MTS announced this on July 3, 2025.

BRAS service boundary equipment (Broadband Remote Access Server) or BNG (Broadband Network Gateway) - a device or software element operating at the junction of the backbone network and the broadband fixed access network. The solution aggregates user connections: routes traffic to the backbone network, authorizes and logs client sessions, assigns IP addresses, applies quality policies.

After the departure from Russia of the main network equipment vendors - Cisco, Juniper and Huawei - the MTS technical unit by the end of 2024 independently created its own solution - service routers in the form of software that is installed on common x86 servers.

In early 2025, the company received a compliance certificate in the field of communications for its MTS-BNG software and hardware complex and put several sets of equipment into test and commercial operation in four regions of Russia: Amur, Belgorod, Nizhny Novgorod and Chelyabinsk regions.

Such equipment is most difficult to find a replacement, since it requires a little on the network, and the supply on the market is limited. As a result, we decided to create the device on our own, gathering a strong expert team of our own and attracted specialists. They took as a basis the idea of ​ ​ writing software that can be installed on any available server equipment x86, so as not to be tied to a specific hardware supplier, "said Viktor Perov, Director of the Regional Transport Department and MTS Corporate Client Networks.

When creating our solution, we conducted large-scale analytics, took into account the experience of engineers who worked with similar equipment, worked out the integration issues with billing and monitoring systems, and at the output we received a ready-made competitive product. MTS-BNG complexes successfully assumed commercial traffic of pilot regions during the test operation. We are focused on expanding functionality, finishing software debugging and scaling our solution in various regions of the country, "Perov added.

By the end of 2025, MTS plans to launch its solution into commercial operation in 10 regions. Over several years, as foreign equipment becomes obsolete, MTS-BNG complexes will be gradually installed on the entire MTS network.