Richweb Fuels Rural Broadband with Hyperscale Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation from A10 Networks
December 04 2019 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
A10 Networks Thunder® CGN for Bare Metal
Delivers High-performance Network Address Translation for
Infrastructure-as-a-Service Offering
A10 Networks (NYSE: ATEN) today announced that Richweb, a
Virginia-based managed service provider, has adopted the company’s
bare metal carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT)
solution. Richweb is helping to bring digital equity to rural
communities across Virginia. As part of its infrastructure services
portfolio expansion, Richweb aspired to provide CGNAT services to
help its electric-co-op customers bring high-speed broadband to
more Virginia residents. It chose A10 Thunder® Carrier-grade
Networking (CGN) Bare Metal to extend its customers’ IPv4 address
pools and ensure that critical network services are always
available and reliable.
A10 Networks’ Thunder CGN solution provides high-performance,
highly transparent network address and protocol translation,
allowing service providers and enterprises to extend IPv4 network
connectivity while simultaneously transitioning to the IPv6
protocol. In addition to hyperscale and rich application-level
address translation features, the Thunder CGN solution also
provides increased security to protect the services and
infrastructure.
A10 Thunder CGN Bare Metal leverages the same high-performance
architecture and features of the A10 Thunder CGN appliances.
Bare-metal software deployments benefit from greater performance by
not using a hypervisor, since they have direct access to the
underlying hardware. A single instance of A10 Thunder CGN Bare
Metal offers up to 40 Gbps of throughput.
“The performance of A10 Thunder CGN Bare Metal doesn’t waver,”
says Jon Larsen, CIO and co-founder of Richweb, noting that
open-source NAT products can experience unpredictable performance,
impacting the subscriber experience.
Richweb deployed A10 Thunder CGN Bare Metal on its preferred
server platform, which lowered capital costs and simplified
operations. Servers running the bare-metal software can be upgraded
independently from the hardware, giving the engineering team
greater flexibility as business expands. “I like the bare metal
because we can throw more cores at it and we can scale on demand,”
says Larsen.
Richweb’s engineering and operations team was new to A10 Thunder
CGN, but deployment was smooth. “I expected it to be more of a
challenge to configure Thunder CGN Bare Metal,” says Larsen. “It
was simple. Thunder CGN just worked.”
“A10 Thunder CGN allows Richweb to be at the center of rural
broadband services. Richweb provides the infrastructure services,
such as routing, network address translation and peering, that
electric co-ops need to deliver broadband to rural communities,”
said Mark Lea, CEO and co-founder, Richweb.
High-performance, scalable CGNAT is part of a sustainable growth
strategy for any service provider or enterprise. With CGNAT
services, Richweb can make the most of their IPv4 address
allocations, enabling them to efficiently serve more subscribers
and more connected devices, while being ready for IPv6.
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