Hardware
The Super Router is software: it runs on a standard x86-64 server you own. We size it with you for your subscribers and traffic — here is what we use and recommend.
Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, x86-64 — the install ISO installs it, or start from a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 server
CPU
A modern multi-core server CPU — packet work is spread over the cores by the NIC’s queues; more subscribers and traffic, more cores
Memory
8 GB up to 2,000 subscribers, 16–32 GB up to 10,000; more for large CGNAT tables, and about 2 GB more for each upstream that sends the full BGP table
Storage
SSD or NVMe; the database, the graphs and months of fiber history live here
Uplink
Two ports in an LACP bond (10G, 40G or 100G) to the upstream, for capacity and a spare path
OLT side
Ports to the OLTs’ uplinks, with the per-PON VLANs inside the OLT’s S-VLAN (QinQ)
Network cards
Intel X710 / E810 series (the E810 for 100G), NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX, and similar server NICs with several queues
Management
A separate port or VLAN for SSH, the API and the monitor, behind the allow-list
Repair
Standard server parts from any supplier: disks, fans, power supplies, memory and cards are swapped in minutes. If the whole server fails, a spare is set up from the backup and we move the licence to it
Network drivers
The Super Router runs on the Linux kernel of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, whose driver community is the largest in the world: Intel, NVIDIA (Mellanox), Broadcom, Realtek and every other NIC vendor maintain their drivers there. Your router gets them through Ubuntu’s kernel updates, installed with every update. If a driver bug ever hits your router, we reproduce it, build the fixed driver for your kernel, deliver it as a signed package, and send the fix upstream so every operator gets it. No forked kernel, no vendor lock: any NIC that Ubuntu 24.04’s kernel supports works on the Super Router.
Two sizes
Up to 2,000 subscribers
- 4 CPU cores
- 8 GB RAM
- 2 × 120 GB SSD
- 2 network ports
Up to 10,000 subscribers, or 10–40 Gbit/s
- 8–16 CPU cores
- 16–32 GB RAM
- 2 × 240 GB SSD
- Intel X710 / E810 or NVIDIA Mellanox ConnectX cards
Download the install ISO (4.7 GB) and its SHA256 checksums. For physical servers; it installs Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and the Super Router (release 1.2.2). Check the SHA256 before writing it to a USB stick. ISO · SHA256SUMS
On an existing Ubuntu 24.04 server, use the install guide at dtvsol.one/install.
Supported OLTs
Huawei MA5600T / MA5608T family today, controlled over SNMP (the CLI only as a fallback). ZTE within about a week, V-SOL after that. We add OLT vendors with our clients: an operator gives us access to its OLT, and we build and test the driver on it.
A reference build
A mid-range server: one 32–64-core CPU, 128 GB of memory, mirrored NVMe disks, two power supplies and two dual-port 100G cards — 2×100G in an LACP bond to the upstream, 2×100G to the OLTs. Designed for up to 100,000 subscribers — an estimate; we size the server with you — with the speed plans enforced by the OLT; smaller networks need less.
Or call us:Call us — enable JavaScript to see the number, or use the contact form.