Customer Success Story
Viettel scales network to advance digital society in Vietnam
Viettel Group is focused on expanding digital society in Vietnam to meet the expectations of its tech-savvy youth and driving economic growth through technology.
To efficiently meet growing demand for mobile and broadband services while maximizing its public IPv4 addressing resources, Viettel upgraded the carrier-grade network address translation (NAT) capabilities on its Juniper MX960 Universal Routers.
Overview
| Company | Viettel Group |
| Industry | Service Provider |
| Products used | MX960, MX2020, MX-SPC3 Security Services Card, SRX5800, ACX2100 |
| Region | APAC |
70
Million mobile subscribers worldwide
9
Million fixed broadband subscribers in Vietnam
Manage
IPv4 address exhaustion
11
Countries of operation
Fast growing digital economy
Viettel’s business growth reflects Vietnam’s status as the fastest growing digital economies in Southeast Asia.
“Viettel is the largest communications company in Vietnam,” says Le Trung Kien, IP and Fixed Broadband Engineer, GNOC3 Department at VTNet, Viettel Group. It’s also the only Vietnamese company to be included in Brand Finance’s “Top 500 Most Valuable Brands in the World” ranking.
In 2022 Viettel’s revenue grew 6%, driven by its leadership in local telecom services, overseas investment, and digital business and industry services. The company holds 54% share of Vietnam’s mobile market and 40% share of the country’s fiber Internet market.
With public IPv4 addresses a scarce resource, both in Vietnam and around the world, Viettel needed to upgrade its carrier-grade NAT capabilities as more consumers, businesses, and agricultural and industrial customers wanted fast, reliable mobile and broadband connectivity from bustling cities to rural villages.
Make the most of IPv4 resources
Viettel has relied on Juniper networking for more than 10 years, using Juniper MX Series Universal Routers for its core and edge and Juniper ACX Series Metro Routers for its regional networks.
To increase its address translation capacity and seamlessly connect subscribers’ devices, Viettel upgraded its Juniper MX960 Universal Routers with Juniper MX-SPC3 Services Cards to provide the additional processing power needed for carrier-grade NAT. This approach allowed Viettel to grow subscriber connectivity while preserving its capital investment in Juniper routing and its Junos OS operational expertise.
“It was easy to expand Juniper NAT to meet the traffic growth of our services,” says Kien.
Using carrier-grade NAT allows Viettel to avoid IPv4 address exhaustion and allows IPv4 and IPv6 addressing to coexist in its network. It also protects Viettel’s private host addresses from being directly targeted by cyberattackers.
Viettel worked with SVTECH, one of the leading systems integrators in Vietnam, to upgrade the MX960 routers. It also uses the company’s services for ongoing maintenance.
Deliver high-quality digital services
As a leading service provider in Vietnam and with growing operations in Latin America, Africa, and Asia, Viettel can continue to rely on high-performance, reliable, and scalable networking from Juniper.
“With Juniper carrier-grade NAT, we can continue to deliver the best quality of experience to subscribers,” says Kien.
Viettel can efficiently protect and scale its consumer mobile and fixed broadband services, including television, gaming, and finance, as well as its OfficeWAN enterprise VPN service for businesses.
Easy expansion of carrier-grade NAT capabilities will also allow Viettel to meet demands for IoT to support manufacturing and smart cities, which will contribute to the government’s economic growth goals.
Viettel Selects Juniper Networks to Empower Vietnam’s Thriving Digital Society with High-Speed Internet Connectivity
The Products
MX960
The SDN-enabled MX960 Universal Routing Platform is a high performance, carrier-grade, multiservice edge platform with unprecedented scale for service provider and cloud applications. The MX960 enables inline MACsec support without performance penalties on 10, 40 GbE and 100 GbE, and delivers 12 Tbps of system capacity in a 12 slot chassis supporting dense 100 GbE, 400 GbE interfaces. Similar to the other MX Series Universal Router Platforms, the MX960 has extensive carrier-grade capabilities.
MX2020
The SDN-enabled MX2020 Universal Routing Platform is a high-capacity, carrier-grade, multiservice edge platform with extensive automation capabilities to help service providers and cloud operators address long-term bandwidth, subscriber, and services growth. The MX2020 Universal Routing Platform delivers 80 Tbps of system capacity and supports up to 800 x 100GbE or 160 x 400GbE interfaces in a single chassis.
MX-SPC3 Security Services Card
Use the MX-SPC3 to modernize your network infrastructure and derive additional value from your existing Juniper MX240, MX480, and MX960 Universal Routing Platforms. Achieve increased performance and scale while adding industry-leading Carrier-Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT), stateful firewalling, and other advanced security services to your existing MX Series routers.
SRX5800
The massive performance and scalability of the SRX5800 next-generation firewall make it ideal for securing large enterprise data centers, service provider infrastructure, and public sector networks.
ACX2100
The ACX2100 is a hardened router with 16 T1/E1 interfaces, four copper 10/100/1000-Mbps interfaces, four combination copper/fiber GbE ports, two GbE SFP ports, and two 10GbE SFP+ ports.
Published August 2023