SANTA CLARA, Calif., November 7, 2024 – netElastic, a leader in virtualized broadband solutions, announced results from Golden West Telecommunications Cooperative‘s distributed BNG initiative. Golden West has revolutionized its network infrastructure by adopting netElastic’s Distributed Broadband Network Gateways (BNGs), enhancing service reliability and customer satisfaction across South Dakota.

Golden West, serving over 30,000 subscribers, transitioned from a centralized BNG model to a distributed approach, significantly improving network performance and resiliency. By leveraging netElastic’s virtualized BNGs, Golden West has minimized the impact of network failures, reduced latency, and ensured better overall service quality.

Key Highlights:

• Improved Network Resiliency: The shift to distributed BNGs has reduced the number of customers impacted by network issues, providing more reliable and resilient service.
• Enhanced Performance: Distributed architecture allows customer traffic to reach Layer 3 earlier, improving redundancy and failover capabilities.
• Cost-Effective Virtualization: netElastic’s virtualized BNG solution offers attractive licensing models, enabling Golden West to allocate bandwidth resources efficiently, reduce power usage, and achieve performance on par with traditional BNG solutions.
• Simplified Network Management: netElastic’s vBNGs, with a user-friendly interface, have simplified network operations, reducing the need for extensive training and allowing for smooth deployments.

Anthony Gervasi, Manager of Platform Engineering at Golden West, remarked, “Distributed BNGs allow customer traffic to hit Layer 3 earlier, making redundancy and failover more reliable. netElastic’s solution has exceeded our expectations in terms of performance and stability.”

David Williams, Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing at netElastic, added, “Golden West’s transition to a distributed BNG model exemplifies how our virtualized solutions can enhance network efficiency and customer experience while providing cost savings.”

For more information about netElastic and to download a the Golden West case study, visit netElastic’s website.

About netElastic

netElastic is an innovative software company providing high-performance routing solutions for broadband service providers. netElastic developed one of the first software-based broadband network gateways (BNGs) and has been a leader ever since. netElastic vBNG brings greater scalability, flexibility, and lower costs to BNGs. netElastic’s software-based CGNAT solution provides the most important CGNAT features at a fraction of the cost of traditional proprietary CGNAT solutions.