Programmable Enforcement.
Built to Your Spec.
Traditional ACL implementations trade flexibility for performance, or performance for flexibility. BlueDot develops custom ACL enforcement plugins on the Quantum Framework — programmable enforcement points that insert and remove rules at runtime, at line rate, without dataplane restarts. Built to your requirements, deployed in your product.
Static ACLs in a Dynamic Threat Landscape
Network access control lists are foundational to network security — but the way most networks implement them hasn’t kept pace with the threats they’re designed to block. ACLs on traditional routers and switches are static configurations: change requires a config push, a commit, often a brief disruption. At scale, managing thousands of ACL entries across dozens of enforcement points becomes an operational burden that slows response time when speed matters most.
When a new threat emerges — a botnet C2 IP range, a compromised subnet, a zero-day exploit source — the time between identification and enforcement is measured in minutes or hours, not milliseconds. Every second of delay is a window of exposure.
Dedicated firewall appliances solve some of this, but introduce their own problems: cost, throughput bottlenecks, vendor lock-in, and a management layer that may not integrate with existing automation. If you’re building a security product or a network service that requires high-performance enforcement, you need something purpose-built — not adapted from a generic platform.
BlueDot develops custom ACL enforcement plugins that put rule evaluation directly in the VPP forwarding plane, with runtime programmability via the Quantum Controller.
Built for Companies That Need Enforcement in Their Product
OEMs Building Security Appliances
You’re building a next-gen firewall, a network segmentation appliance, or a policy enforcement product. You need a high-performance ACL engine in the forwarding plane that your product can program via API. BlueDot develops the enforcement plugin to your spec — your match criteria, your rule model, your API contract.
System Integrators Delivering Network Security
Your customer needs programmable enforcement points that integrate with their threat intelligence feeds, their SOAR platform, or their zero trust architecture. You need a partner who can build the enforcement engine to the customer’s exact requirements — not a vendor platform you have to work around.
Service Providers Needing Scalable Blocklists
You’re operating at scale and need to enforce blocklists with tens of thousands of entries at your network edge — at wire speed, updated via API, without router config pushes. BlueDot develops the enforcement plugin to handle your rule volumes and your update model.
We Build the Enforcement Plugin.
You Ship the Product.
BlueDot develops a custom ACL enforcement plugin on the Quantum Framework — rules are evaluated in the VPP forwarding plane at wire speed, not in a control plane software path. The Quantum Controller exposes a runtime API that allows rules to be inserted, modified, or removed without any dataplane restart or traffic disruption.
We scope the plugin to your requirements: your match criteria, your rule capacity targets, your integration points. The result is an enforcement engine built for your specific use case — whether that’s a security appliance product, a managed service enforcement layer, or an inline blocklist processor.
What we develop for your engagement:
How an ACL Enforcement Engagement Works
Custom Plugin Development
We start with your enforcement requirements — what traffic types, what rule volumes, what match criteria, what integration points, what update frequency. BlueDot develops the ACL plugin on the Quantum Framework, validates it against your performance and functional requirements, and delivers a qualified build ready for your product or your deployment.
Your Product, Your Integration
The ACL plugin BlueDot develops becomes a component in your product or your infrastructure. You define the API contract your management plane uses. You define the integration with your upstream threat intelligence. You own the deployment. BlueDot delivers the enforcement engine — you ship the solution.
Fixed-scope development. No per-device licensing. The plugin you paid to develop runs on every unit you deploy.
Where a Quantum ACL Engagement Fits
Tell Us What You’re Enforcing
Every ACL engagement starts with your enforcement requirements — what traffic types, what rule volumes, what integration points, what update frequency. From there we scope the plugin development and the deployment architecture.