What this is
The first customer-visible release of QuantumBNG — a self-contained Broadband Network Gateway (BNG) for small and mid-size ISPs. One tarball, one sudo ./install.sh, and roughly three minutes later you have a working control plane, data plane, and web UI on a fresh Ubuntu 24.04 box.
The three planes:
| Plane | Component | What it does |
|---|---|---|
| Management | QuantumTouch | Web UI on port 8443 — subscribers, plans, portal config, health, audit log |
| Control | Quantum Controller | Source of truth. DHCP, AAA, session state. Runs in a container on port 3000 (HTTPS, internal). |
| Data | VPP + tuned DPDK | Line-rate packet forwarding. Per-core worker threads, isolated CPUs, hugepages, NUMA-pinned. |
The controller team ships their own release notes for the Quantum Controller v1.2.0; those notes are embedded verbatim as Appendix A at the end of this document.