Carrier-Grade vBRAS: Key to the Cloud MAN

By Chen Chixin, ZTE Corporation
In 2017, the wait-and-see period of NFV of the telecommunications industry comes to an end. NFV is substantively introduced. As the preferred scenario for the NFV transformation of fixed network services, the vBRAS separates the control plane from the forwarding plane to remedy the defects of traditional BRAS equipment, including the uneven resource usage, long deployment period of new services and heavy workload of decentralized configurations and O&M. Labora