TrafficSoft Virtual CG-NAT

Virtual Carrier Grade NAT (vCGNAT) is a product of resolving problems with a lack of IP addresses.

2019: Confirmation that NFWare technology is ready for deployment in large operator networks

On October 14, 2019, NFWare reported that the European Center confirmed the readiness of NFWare technology for deployment in the networks of large operators.

Testing the performance of NFWare confirmed its capabilities: 230 Gbps and 100 million sessions on server Lenovo ThinkSystem SR650 processors Intel and Xeon Gold 6252. The virtual infrastructure was managed with support from 13 Red Hat OSP. Lenovo used Lenovo Open Cloud automation tools to quickly deploy the environment. OpenStack

EANTC concluded that the NFWare product is ready for a large-scale deployment in high-load carrier networks.

During testing, special attention was paid to three main indicators: traffic throughput, session creation speed and the maximum number of simultaneous sessions. In addition, EANTC noted the effectiveness of NFWare in using hardware capacity.

During testing, NFWare Virtual CGNAT demonstrated good scalability and performance in NAT44 mode, clearly proving its readiness for use in large operator networks. noted Carsten Rossenhowell, managing director of EANTC

The lack of performance of software network solutions in the industry has been talked about over the past six years. To solve this problem, NFWare has developed a technology for fast packet processing in a virtual environment. With it, the software is capable of processing up to 10 times more traffic on a single server than its counterparts do.

NFWare Virtual CGNAT helps telecom operators solve the problem of exhausting IPv4 addresses and make a smooth transition to IPv6. The product is used by providers in Russia, the USA, Europe, Central Asia and the Asia-Pacific region.

Since its inception, NFWare has focused on high-performance virtual solutions. We have proven the performance of NFWare in a number of commercial projects and now high speeds are confirmed by EANTC, commented Alexander Britkin, CEO of NFWare

2016: Telefonica tested vCGNAT

On February 18, 2016, Telefonica announced the completion of testing NFWare's vCGNAT virtualization technology.

In the test, vCGNAT technology confirmed a high throughput of tens of gigabits, while running on a standard x86 architecture server on top of the RedHat KVM hypervisor.

The test results demonstrate that our virtualization technologies are successfully used in telecommunications networks at high bandwidth and significantly increase the efficiency of the network infrastructure of operators due to elasticity and deployment speed. Alexander Britkin, CEO of NFWare

NFWare has successfully demonstrated the possibilities of using virtualization technologies in high-load networks of telecom operators. Such solutions improve the ecosystem of vendors for the network infrastructure of operators. Antonio José Elizondo, Head of Telefonica Network Virtualization

2015: Features of vCGNAT

vCGNAT helps carriers prolong the use of a limited IPv4 address space using the functionality of translating private IP addresses to public IP addresses from a specific pool. According to information as of October 2015, one of the features of the solution is virtual and works on a hypervisor. Internet access services, IPTV, Internet telephony are provided through vCGNAT.

System Action Chart (2015)

Product Features:

• IPv4 IPv6, , UDP, TCP, ICMP, Logging, ALG;
• Hundreds of Gbps throughput
• processing of several million incoming connections;
• support for several tens of millions of simultaneously broadcast connections;
• required by every service provider.

2014: vCGNAT Presentation

vCGNAT Presentation (2014)