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New and Changed Features

Learn about new features or enhancements to existing features in Juniper BNG CUPS 24.4R1. For more information about a feature, click the link in the description. See the Juniper BNG CUPS Installation Guide and Juniper BNG CUPS User Guide for more details about new and changed features.

New and Changed Features

We've introduced the following in Juniper BNG CUPS 24.4R1:

  • Support for Red Hat Openshift Container Platform. Juniper BNG CUPS can use the Red Hat Openshift Container Platform to set up the Kubernetes cluster environment in to which the BNG CUPS Controller is deployed.

  • Support for intelligent load sharing with redundancy enhanced load balancing capabilities across multiple BNG User Planes. This feature allows you to configure load balancing ports as part of resilient subscriber groups with active and backup BNG User Planes, enabling you to minimize service disruption and traffic loss.

  • Added compliance for the Broadband Forums TR-459 Issue 2—TR-459 Issue 2 compliance for Juniper BNG CUPS ensures that your broadband network gateway implementation adheres to the standards set by the Broadband Forum, leveraging PFCP (Packet Forwarding Control Protocol) and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) tunneling protocol on the user plane, for efficient subscriber state management and control packet tunneling.

  • The number of BNG User Planes supported by a BNG CUPS Controller increases to 32.

  • Support for geographic redundancy—The BNG CUPS Controller can maintain continuous operation across multiple geographically distributed Kubernetes clusters. By utilizing a multiple cluster architecture managed by Karmada for orchestration and Submariner for inter cluster networking, this feature ensures that BNG CUPS Controllers can failover in the event of a data center outage.

  • Extends the capabilities of Juniper BNG CUPS to support static IPv4 and IPv6 address pools for DHCP and DHCPv6 local server access models and dynamic relay configurations. It introduces the ability to configure static address pools and prefixes, assign route tags, and prioritize control packets over the network. The feature enables BNG CUPS to handle diverse access models and meet resiliency requirements.

  • BNG CUPS telemetry for subscriber and service accounting. Introducing Junos telemetry interface (JTI) sensor support for accounting statistics information on the BNG CUPS Controller. Using this feature, you can stream actual subscriber transit statistics, firewall filter statistics, and subscriber metadata.