Control plane is the management and decision-making layer in networks, cloud platforms, and software-defined infrastructure that configures behavior, enforces policies, and coordinates lifecycle operations for underlying data-processing components, providing centralized governance and automation for enterprise-scale systems and services.
45 articles about Control Plane
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
Aviz Networks Service Node 2.2 adds 4G-to-5G control-plane handover visibility, packet loss/jitter KPIs, SALB on BlueField-3, ConnectX support, and next-gen DPI.
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
Aviz and NVIDIA detail Subscriber-Aware Load Balancing on BlueField-3 to correlate control- and user-plane traffic per subscriber at line rate.
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
Aviz FTAS v3.4 expands IPv6 and dual-stack BGP testing, adds 80,000 EVPN Type-5 validation, and models restarts for Day-2 readiness.
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
ONES Fabric Designer automates Day 0 design for NVIDIA Spectrum X, generating IPCLOS underlay, BGP settings, RoCEv2 QoS, and validated configs.
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
Aviz Service Node provides passive, IMSI-based correlation across 4G EPC and 5G core during inter-RAT handovers, exporting metadata to Kafka.
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
Aviz Service Node R2.3 adds 5G-NSA active bearer exports, RADIUS in control sessions, DPI payload extraction, in-service DPI upgrades, and Intel/ConnectX multi-NIC support.
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
FTAS 3.5 expands EVPN VXLAN validation with 30K MAC/ARP scale, up to 128K prefixes, failure recovery tests, and SNMP and automation hardening.
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
Aviz Packet Broker 2.12 adds FIPS mode enforcing FIPS 140-2/140-3 validated cryptography across control-plane services, including SSH.
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
Aviz Networks released APB 2.12 with dynamic LAG hashing for NVIDIA, VXLAN/GRE decapsulation, and FIPS-compliant cryptography.
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
Aviz Service Node (ASN) R2.4 adds vASN and vTAP, VLAN retention for VXLAN, DPI app categorization, Kibana dashboards, and RHEL 9.7.
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
EVPN-VXLAN networks must update VM location during live migration; Aviz FTAS reported 1.42% transient packet loss in a SONiC leaf-spine test.
Decision Insights Coverage • July 8, 2026
ASN-DPI correlates control-plane subscriber IDs with user-plane traffic to deliver per-flow, subscriber-aware analytics for QoE, capacity planning, policy, and security.