22 WISPAPALOOZA SHOW I OCTOBER 9 – 12, 2023 www.bekabusinessmedia.com DAY 2 L Z OO 2023 netElastic CGNAT Grows Subscribers, Shrinks Costs DoubleRadius Brings Future of Tech to You The United States is focused on closing the digital divide and WISPs are working to increase their number of subscribers. Unfortunately, this expansion sometimes comes with a hidden cost. New internet customers require IPv4 addresses, which aren’t cheap. These prices range from $35 to $45 per address. It’s easy, but eye-opening, to do the math: If a WISP needs 1,000 IPv4 addresses at an average cost of $40, that’s a total cost of $40,000. If that same provider needs 5,000 IPv4 addresses, that’s $200,000. For 10,000 IPv4 addresses, the cost would be $400,000. For large Tier 1 carriers, this may be a cost of doing business. However, for small and regional WISPs, these high prices may slow down their ability to sign up new subscribers. Obviously, this is an obstacle that needs to be overcome. One option is carrier-grade network address translation (CGNAT). The goal of network address translation (NAT) is to save public addresses. By sharing a public IP address among many private IP addresses, NAT limits the number of public IP addresses an organization has to use, conserving its IPv4 addresses. Of course, this limits costs, and cost savings have been the main driver behind the growth of CGNAT. But do I really need CGNAT? It depends on your pool of IPv4 addresses and future growth plans. How many new subscribers do you plan to add in the next three years? In the next five years? If you have enough IPv4 addresses to meet your future growth plans, you’re probably fine. If you don’t have enough IPv4 addresses to meet future growth, then CGNAT can help. What about IPv6? Won’t that eventually replace IPv4 addresses? Yes, but it probably will take a long time. IPv6 was created almost 25 years ago, but according to Google, only 40 percent of users access Google over IPv6. And much of the internet is still reachable only by IPv4. So, the wait for IPv6 likely will continue for some time. For WISPs that have deployed CGNAT, the question becomes, which CGNAT solution should I choose? There is no CGNAT solution in the market that meets the needs of all WISPs, because each WISP is different. Your specific situation and requirements should drive your CGNAT selection. For large Tier 1 carriers with large budgets, CGNAT solutions from traditional CGNAT vendors may be the best choice. These CGNAT offerings have the highest translation performance and typically come with the highest number of features. In fact, many of these fully loaded CGNAT solutions have been built to accommodate the specific requirements of large carriers. Of course, these fully loaded CGNAT solutions also have the highest prices. Small and regional WISPs may not need the same CGNAT feature/functionality as the large carriers, and many can’t afford the high prices. netElastic CGNAT was built for small and regional WISPs. netElastic CGNAT is a cost-effective alternative to legacy solutions. Traditional CGNAT solutions run on expensive proprietary hardware. In contrast, netElastic CGNAT runs on commodity x86 servers. As a result, WISPs can save up to 80 percent by switching to netElastic, whose high-performance virtual router technology is at the heart of its CGNAT, including a scalable software architecture that delivers a high level of translation performance. Using DPDK and advanced packet processing, netElastic CGNAT can achieve near-line-rate throughput on 10G, 25G, 40G, and 100G interfaces. It’s also scalable (scales by cores) and can deliver performance well over 360 Gbps per server. netElastic also supports up to 40,000 subscribers and 6 million NAT sessions. m For more information on its economical CGNAT, visit netElastic in booth 629 to learn how it delivers value with price and performance. For more than 20 years DoubleRadius connected businesses across North America by working with customers and vendors to create successful and creative solutions. DoubleRadius prides itself in coming to the market with unique solutions that primarily benefits those it works with. The company is easy to do business with and holds premier partnerships with top vendors in the industry. DoubleRadius wants you to lean on its experienced team and to meet with the team face to face to help put a strategy together so you will be ready for the next big customer wave. As all WISPs know, the BEAD funding program is a hot topic and ready to launch. Let DoubleRadius guide you on how to take advantage while staying successful. With its locations in North Carolina, Utah and Canada, DoubleRadiu is here to support you. With its partners and team of experts, the company has proven methods and solutions that are cost effective, intuitive and reliable that are helping people bridge the gap in, and outside of the United States. Not only will you be ahead of the curve, but you will also have the possibility of walking away with free products from eigh different vendors: Ubiquiti, Siklu, Cambium, RF elements, IOIO Box, Gamma, Baicells and Transtector. Do not miss your opportunity to stop by and take advantage of all the tools DoubleRadius has in its toolbox to help you to win in the industry. Just like you, DoubleRadius is interested in next-generation technologies, and this year it brings the future of technology to you. With the wonderful world of 6GHz at the top of the list, find DoubleRadius at booth 328 to talk about testing and the new solutions coming down the pipe. m
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