Evaluation of Virtual Customer Premises Equipment Prototype System with Open Source Software

Abstract

Software defined networking and network functions virtualization enable network services to be provided more quickly and flexibly, and some network services are beginning to use these technologies. To create a new service with such technologies, this study treat virtual customer premises equipment (vCPE) that provides CPE functions as software on general-purpose servers. In this paper, a vCPE system is developed by using open source software (OSS) to reduce costs and provide flexibility for system deployment. Through this development, the issues with OSS-based systems are clarified and are considered how to cope with them. This paper also evaluated the practicality of OSS and performance of our OSS-based vCPE prototype system.