Traditional BRAS have faced challenges such as low resource utilization, complex management, and slow service provisioning.
Virtual broadband remote access server (vBRAS) addresses these challenges by accelerating service rollout, improving resource utilization, and simplifying operations and maintenance.
Huawei and Canonical collaborated to design a private cloud architecture for vBRAS using Huawei OceanStor storage and Canonical Charmed OpenStack, offering a reliable and cost-efficient solution for network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) for vBRAS.
The NFVI reference architecture for vBRAS includes dedicated controller nodes, specialized storage from OceanStor, instance high availability, and infrastructure management from Canonical MAAS and Juju, among other features.