Resources
Background reading for your team.
Explainers on how broadband gateways work, what carrier NAT costs you, and how to evaluate a platform — written for the engineers who will run it, not for a search engine.
01 Reading
Technical guides
10 queued
Long-form guides for network engineers
One decision per guide, with the trade-offs stated rather than the conclusion assumed.
- What is a broadband network gateway?
- BNG or BRAS: what actually changed
- PPPoE or IPoE: choosing an access model
Articles
4 queued
Notes from building and running a BNG
Operational practice, release notes, and the occasional account of something we got wrong.
- What we changed after the first production soak
- Why our compliance logging alarms instead of dropping
- Staged configuration, and why we did not build a web-first product
Nothing is published yet. We would rather write these one at a time than fill a content calendar. The documentation, by contrast, is complete and public — start there.
Need an answer sooner?
A network engineer will talk through the trade-off with you directly, no guide required.