AthenaBNG is a software-based Broadband Network Gateway that runs on standard Linux servers. Purpose-built for small-to-medium Australian ISPs and telcos who need carrier-grade subscriber management without carrier-grade pricing.
From subscriber onboarding to traffic shaping — all in one platform.
Automatic subscriber VLAN interface creation from PPPoE Discovery and DHCP Discover frames. Supports 802.1Q, 802.1ad (QinQ), and arbitrary nesting depths.
Learn more →Full PPPoE session termination via accel-ppp with RADIUS authentication, per-session QoS, and real-time accounting.
Learn more →Built-in DHCP server for IPoE subscribers with RADIUS-driven IP assignment, unnumbered /32 addressing, and full accounting.
Learn more →Native dual-stack for PPPoE and IPoE subscribers. RADIUS-driven IPv6 addressing with DHCPv6 Prefix Delegation (a /56 per subscriber) correlated to the IPv4 session, plus SLAAC/DHCPv6 on the WAN.
Learn more →CAKE-based traffic shaping with accurate link-layer overhead compensation for PPPoE, QinQ, and IPoE encapsulations.
Learn more →VRF-based CGNAT traffic steering to a dedicated NAT appliance. Automatic subscriber classification by RFC 6598 address range. Built-in deterministic CGNAT coming soon.
Learn more →FRRouting integration for BGP, OSPF, and IS-IS. Automatic subscriber route redistribution into your IGP/EGP.
Learn more →Full RADIUS authentication, authorization, and accounting. CoA/Disconnect support for real-time policy changes.
Learn more →Familiar JunOS/VyOS-style CLI with tab completion, config mode, commit/rollback, and pipe filters.
Learn more →Built-in WireGuard tunnels and BNG-managed VRFs. Put RADIUS — auth, accounting and CoA — inside an encrypted tunnel in its own routing domain, so your AAA never crosses the public internet in the clear.
Learn more →Read-only JSON-RPC telemetry over SSH — a live subscriber table plus a real-time stream of session events (up/down, rate changes) for external collectors and dashboards. No extra port; each collector key is pinned to a read-only feed, all from config.
Learn more →Run on commodity x86 servers instead of proprietary hardware appliances.
Handle thousands of concurrent subscribers on a single server with modern NIC offloads.
RADIUS, BGP, OSPF, PPPoE, DHCP — no vendor lock-in, no proprietary protocols.
Built and supported in Brisbane. We understand the Australian ISP landscape — NBN, ACCC, and all.
Get in touch for a demo, pricing, or to discuss how AthenaBNG fits your network.
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