Built for Australian ISPs

AthenaBNG is designed from the ground up for the Australian ISP market. Whether you're an NBN RSP, a regional fixed wireless provider, or a managed service operator, AthenaBNG delivers the subscriber management you need on hardware you already have.

NBN Resellers (RSPs)​

If you're an NBN RSP taking delivery of subscriber traffic via NNI handoffs:

• QinQ VLAN demux — Automatically creates subscriber interfaces from NBN's VLAN tagging scheme
• PPPoE termination — Full session management for FTTN, FTTP, HFC, and Fixed Wireless
• DHCP/IPoE — Native IPoE support for NBN services that don't use PPPoE
• Per-subscriber QoS — CAKE-based shaping with accurate overhead compensation for NBN encapsulation types
• RADIUS integration — Works with your existing RADIUS infrastructure (FreeRADIUS, Radiator, etc.)

Typical NBN RSP Deployment​

NBN NNI (10GbE) ──► AthenaBNG ──► Core Router ──► Internet
                        │
                        ├── RADIUS (subscriber auth)
                        ├── FRRouting (BGP to upstream)
                        └── CGNAT (IPv4 conservation)

Regional and Fixed Wireless ISPs​

For regional ISPs and WISPs serving rural and remote communities:

• Low overhead — Runs on a single commodity server, no expensive chassis
• Simple operations — JunOS-style CLI that network engineers already know
• Flexible access — Supports both PPPoE and IPoE across mixed access technologies
• Scalable — Start with hundreds of subscribers, grow to tens of thousands on the same platform
• CGNAT VRF steering — Hand off RFC 6598 traffic to a dedicated CGNAT appliance via VRF (built-in deterministic CGNAT coming soon)

Managed Service Providers​

For MSPs offering wholesale BNG services:

• Multi-tenant capable — VRF support for subscriber isolation
• REST API — Programmatic subscriber management and provisioning
• SNMP monitoring — Standard MIB support for your NMS
• RADIUS accounting — Full session accounting for billing integration
• Commit/rollback — Safe configuration changes with automatic rollback

What You Need​

Hardware Requirements​

A single server with these specs can handle 5,000+ concurrent subscribers with full QoS.

Network Requirements​

• Trunk interface — Carries subscriber VLAN traffic (tagged)
• Uplink interface — Connects to your core/upstream (can be same physical NIC, different VLAN)
• Management interface — Out-of-band management (separate NIC recommended)
• RADIUS server — FreeRADIUS, Radiator, or any RFC 2865/2866 compliant server

Software Stack​

AthenaBNG ships as a Debian package. One command to install:

sudo dpkg -i athenabng_0.1.0_amd64.deb

All dependencies (accel-ppp, FRRouting, nftables) are configured automatically.

Migration Path​

Already running a hardware BNG? AthenaBNG can run alongside your existing infrastructure:

1. Pilot — Deploy AthenaBNG for a subset of subscribers (e.g., one NNI or one access ring)
2. Validate — Confirm RADIUS, QoS, and routing work with your existing infrastructure
3. Migrate — Gradually move subscriber VLANs to AthenaBNG
4. Decommission — Retire the hardware BNG

We provide migration assistance and can help you plan the cutover.

Next Steps​

• Architecture — See how the components fit together
• Features — Detailed feature breakdown
• Contact Us — Discuss your requirements and get a demo