Conserve IPv4 Addresses and Transition to IPv6
Our CGNAT solution helps to minimize IPv4 purchases and migrate to IPv6 with industry-leading price/performance
CGNAT for Growing Broadband Service Providers
Broadband service providers are signing up new subscribers and expanding into new markets and geographies, which requires more IP addresses. Unfortunately, buying or leasing IPv4 addresses is costly. How can providers maintain subscriber growth with a limited supply of IPv4 addresses? netElastic CGNAT can help.
High-Performance CGNAT
- netElastic’s software-based CGNAT is built on our high-performance virtual router technology, a very scalable software architecture that delivers high translation performance while supporting a broad range of additional routing capabilities.
- CGNAT also supports detailed logging compatible with government regulations.
Minimize Costs and Complexity
- There are many IPv6 transition mechanisms, and most come with complexity and costs.
- NAT64, DNS64, and DS-Lite require changes to the IPv6 network during the transition.
- They also require dedicated network infrastructure for tunneling and translation, which brings additional costs and complexity.
- Customer home devices can create incompatibilities driving up support calls.
Transitioning to IPv6 with CGNAT and Dual Stack
- netElastic’s CGNAT and Dual Stack approach allows broadband providers to layer on IPv6 for existing and new customers with little to no change to the IPv4 network.
- On the IPv4 network, CGNAT allows the service provider to grow with fewer IPv4 addresses.
- As IPv6 content and applications continue to be adopted, more network traffic will route over the native IPv6 network.
Customer Case Study
Community Broadband Network Solves IPv4 Challenges
The City of Pella’s community broadband network needed more IPv4 addresses for their expanding subscriber base. Instead of purchasing expensive IPv4 addresses, they chose netElastic CGNAT for its performance, cost-effectiveness, and ease of use.
Blog
An increasing number of broadband service providers are using CGNAT to meet IPv4 exhaustion challenges. However, some providers may still be unsure of whether they should purchase CGNAT.
To help you decide, below are 5 reasons to buy a CGNAT solution:
1. Extend Your IPv4 Addresses
IPv4 exhaustion creates serious challenges for broadband service providers as they sign up new subscribers and expand into new markets and geographies. CGNAT helps alleviate this problem, since its main goal is to conserve IPv4 addresses. By sharing a public IP address among many private IP addresses, CGNAT limits the number of public IP addresses an organization has to use, conserving its IPv4 addresses.
