Guides
QuantumBNG VirtualBox Evaluation — Quick Start
A ~15 minute walk-through that gets QuantumBNG running on your laptop with simulated subscribers you can watch onboard, get IP addresses, and pass traffic — all without any physical hardware. What you get at the end: a browser tab on your laptop showing the QuantumBNG dashboard, 50 simulated subscribers online, and real DHCP + data-plane […]
QuantumBNG Baremetal Quick Start
Audience: the operator installing QuantumBNG for the first time. Time budget: ~30 minutes from a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 box to a working BNG serving DHCP leases. Assumes: shell access to the box (SSH or console), root/sudo, a working management NIC on the LAN. If you want the full manual instead — every panel, every setting, […]
QuantumBNG Operator Guide
Audience: the operator running QuantumBNG day-to-day. Complements: quick-start.md for first-time install; this document is the reference for everything after. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.NameFirstLast Name Email EmailSubmit Resource Center Watch the Quick Start series and grab the docs to deploy QuantumBNG. […]
Bootstrap and Account Recovery
What this covers: the bootstrap token issued at install time, how to recover access when the admin password is lost, and how to manage active sessions for compromised accounts. Last updated: 2026-06-28 Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.NameFirstLast Name Email EmailSubmit Resource […]
Let’s Encrypt on the BNG Management Interface
What this covers: when Let’s Encrypt is a viable option for the BNG management certificate, how to request a certificate using either the HTTP-01 or DNS-01 challenge method, and how to keep it renewed automatically. Last updated: 2026-06-28 Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete […]
Trusting the QuantumTouch BNG TLS Certificate
What this covers: why your browser warns about the HTTPS connection to the BNG management interface, and the three ways to resolve it — from easiest to most involved. Last updated: 2026-06-28 Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.NameFirstLast Email Name EmailSubmit Resource […]
CPESIM User Guide
Version: 0.3.9 (ships with QuantumBNG v1.2.0-21) Last updated: 2026-07-29 Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Email Name NameFirstLastEmailSubmit Resource Center Watch the Quick Start series and grab the docs to deploy QuantumBNG. Try QuantumBNG today — download the Community Edition here! Quick […]
Reference
Bluedot Quantum IPoE BNG – Feature List
Every item below is implemented and running in this build. Designed-but-not-yet-shipping capabilities are listed only under Coming Next. Forwarding & Identity L3-routed IPoE forwarding (/32 in FIB) IP-keyed sessions (framed IP) Anti-spoof source-IP guard Shared edge-router next hop Deny-by-default forwarding Rate Limiting & QoS RFC 2698 two-rate three-colour policing Per-direction CIR/PIR (up + down) Green […]
QuantumTouch Operational API — Theory of Operations
The BlueDot BNG exposes two northbound interfaces, and the distinction between them is the organising idea of this document. The first is the BNG Telemetry API — the controller’s own REST surface, described in the companion BNG Telemetry API Theory of Operations. It answers questions about subscribers and traffic: who is connected, what plan they […]
Background
MikroTik Competitive Review
Every small ISP knows the MikroTik playbook. A RouterBOARD or a CCR at the edge, PPPoE or IPoE bolted together from a DHCP server, a stack of simple queues, a FreeRADIUS box you maintain yourself, and — once you cross a few thousand subscribers — a second CCR. Then a third. It works. It’s cheap. […]
Competitive Review: IPoE BNG vs the Generalist
When a small ISP or WISP goes shopping for a BNG, the market pushes them toward one of two extremes — and neither was designed for them. At one end sits the open-source generalist: a powerful, do-everything router OS in which subscriber management is one module among dozens. At the other sits the tier-one incumbent: […]
Product Positioning – Why a Dedicated IPoE BNG Wins
Every incumbent BNG vendor will tell a small ISP or WISP that they "support IPoE." They do — as one checkbox among hundreds, buried inside a platform designed for tier-one carriers running PPPoE, L2TP, lawful intercept, MPLS VPNs, and a decade of accumulated legacy. Quantum IPoE BNG takes the opposite approach. It does one thing, […]
The Emerging Dominance of IPoE
For two decades, Point-to-Point Protocol over Ethernet (PPPoE) was the default way an ISP connected a subscriber’s CPE to the network. That era is ending. Across fiber, cable, and fixed-wireless access, IP over Ethernet (IPoE) has moved from an "alternative" subscriber-management model to the emerging default — and the shift is accelerating for reasons that […]
Bluedot Quantum IPoE BNG — Theory of Operations
This document explains how the BlueDot Quantum IPoE BNG works in operation — what it does with a subscriber’s traffic, how a subscriber moves from "just plugged in" to "connected and paying," and what you, the operator, see and control while the box runs. It is a theory of operations, not an installation guide or […]
Releases
QuantumBNG 1.2.0 — Alpha Release Notes
Release date: fill in at ship Bundle: quantumtouch-installer-1.2.0-01.tar.gz Status: Alpha — production pilots welcome; not yet suitable for ISP-scale (>100 subscribers/sec churn) production. Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form. Email Name NameFirstLastEmailSubmit Resource Center Watch the Quick Start series and grab the […]
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