Virtualized Carrier-Grade Network

Address Translation Router (vCGNAT)

The adoption of Service Defined Networks drives the
need for virtualized network functions to provide
flexible and scalable networking capabilities. The
6WIND vCGNAT solution along with the other 6WIND
VSR solutions is designed to provide high performance
and scalable networking functions delivering routing,
Key features and large-scale NAT capabilities.
▸ 30M Connections
6WIND vCGNAT is a high-performance, software-based solution for a large-scale
(Concurrent connection
transparent network addresses and protocols translations. It is deployed in bare
per 32G RAM)
metal, in virtual machines or in containers on commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) servers
▸ Linear Scalability in private and public clouds.
(over 400Gbps throughput 6WIND vCGNAT
per single instance) enables a smooth
▸ 35Gbps per CPU core transition to IPv6
and allows service
(IMIX traffic)
providers to
efficiently extend
Benefits their IPv4 networks.

▸ High Performance 6WIND vCGNAT

aggregates multiple
▸ Support for NAT44, NAT64 millions of concurrent
and DNS64 connections and

▸ High scalability to address

scales the bandwidth
performance from 1G
rapid growth in the number to over 400G.
Private IPv4 or IPv6 Public IPv4

of subscribers and devices

6WIND vCGNAT works on standard x86 and ARM servers to provide flexibility and cost-
▸ Native support for physical efficiency for small and large deployments.
and virtual deployments
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The 6WIND vCGNAT allows sharing small pools of public addresses among multiple
(PNF, VNF, CNF)
end-sites and end-users, thus helps greatly expand the capacity of existing networks
▸ Rich features: with a limited extra investment.
including Endpoint-
It enables Internet and telecom Service Providers overcome the exhaustion of public
independent Mapping (EIM),
Endpoint-independent Filtering IPv4 addresses by leveraging IPv4 to IPv4 (NAT44) or IPv6 to IPv4 (NAT64) translations
(EIF), port preservation, hair- to optimize the private networks usage and sustain a rapid growth in the number of
pinning and address pooling subscribers and devices.
for a seamless user experience
across a NAT environment.

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 6WIND vCGNAT Datasheet

Specification L2 and Encapsulations: System Requirements

▸ GRE, mGRE
IP Networking: ▸ VLAN (802.1Q, QinQ) Processor:
▸ IPv4 and IPv6
▸ VXLAN ▸ Single or multi-sockets Intel® Xeon®
▸ IPv6 auto-configuration
▸ LAG (802.3ad, LACP)
▸
and Atom® processor

▸ Multitenancy (VRF)
▸ Ethernet bridge
Arm based processors (Ampere
Altra, Graviton2)
▸ IPv4/IPv6 tunneling
▸ IPv4/IPv6 filtering IP Services: CPU/vCPU cores
▸ Network address translation ▸ DHCP server / client / relay ▸ 2 minimum (one for control, one for
▸ DNS client / proxy
data plane)

Routing: ▸ NTP
▸ BGP4, BGP4+, BGP RPKI
Memory:
▸
▸ IS-IS, OSPFv2, OSPFv3 Security:
2GB minimum

▸ RIPv1, RIPv2, RIPng ▸ ACLs (stateless & stateful) NICs:

▸ Static routes & path monitoring ▸ uRPF ▸ Intel: 1G, 10G, 40G, 100G (E810)
▸ BGP multi-path (ECMP) ▸ CP protection ▸ Mellanox: 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, 100G:
▸ Policy base routing (PBR) ▸ BGP FlowSpec (IPv4, IPv6) CX4, CX5, CX6

▸ BGP L3VPN, BGP-LU ▸ Broadcom NetExtreme E-Series

▸ Bidirectional Forwarding Detection

(BFD)
CGNAT Support:
▸ NAT44, NAT64 I/O Virtualization:
▸ Static NAT ▸ virtIO (Linux KVM)
Quality of Service: ▸ Port Assignment ▸ SR-IOV
▸ Rate limiting per Interface
– Deterministic ▸ PCI passthrough

▸ Rate limiting per VRF

– Random or Parity
– Port Block Allocation (PBA) or ▸ VMXNET3 (VMware ESXi)

▸ Hierarchical QoS (H-QoS)

detailed logging per session
– Per user/CPE session limiter ▸ ENA

▸ Class-based QoS ▸ Mapping and filtering

▸ Classification:
– ToS/IP/DSCP/CoS
– Endpoint-independent
mapping and filtering Supported Hypervisors
▸ Shaping and policing
– Address and port dependent
mapping and filtering ▸ KVM (RH, Ubuntu, CentOS)

▸ Scheduling: ▸ Hairpinning ▸ VMware ESXi (6.5+)

– PQ, PB-DWRR ▸ IP Pool Management
– Dynamic IP pool resizing
▸ Microsoft Hyper-V
– Paired pooling
Management / Monitoring:
▸ SSHv2
▸ Logging
– Port batching Public Clouds Support
▸ CLI, NETCONF/YANG
– Advanced logging features
– Syslog ▸ Amazon Web Services
▸ SNMP ▸ ALG Support ▸ Microsoft Azure
▸ KPIs/telemetry (YANG-based) – ICMP, FTP, TFTP, RTSP, PPTP, ▸ Google Cloud Platform
▸ RBAC with AAA
SIP, H323, DNS over UDP

▸ Syslog High Availability: Deployments

▸ 802.1ab LLDP ▸ VRRPv2 (IPv4/IPv6)
▸
▸ sFlow ▸ VRRPv3 (IPv6)
Bare metal, virtual machines,
containers (Kubernetes/Docker)
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▸ IPFIX, Netflow v9 ▸ Installation: PXE, USB, ISO, QCOW2,

OVA
▸ Update / rollback support
▸ Provisioning: cloud-init, Ansible, ZTP
▸ Licensing: Online licensing system
for feature and capacity enablement

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