On 14/Jul/18 20:29, t...@wicks.co.nz wrote:
> My biggest issue with the vendor offerings is that they are not making their
> virtual offerings (VMX, VSR) attractive enough pricing wise at the small
> scale, we have successful virtual Juniper and Nokia BNG's in production but
> pricing wise it generally ends up with the service provider thinking that
> hardware was probably a better choice in the long run.
vBNG's are fraught with imperceptible license fees. But yes, if you had
do deploy a BNG on an x86 box, a vBNG from a well-known vendor will
likely be less problematic to setup and scale than a BNG based on Linux.
Then again, I last researched this in 2016, so things could have changed
a tad.
Mark.
