RDK-B Expertise


RDK-B (Reference Design Kit - Broadband) is a popular operating system for broadband CPEs. Zilogic has a vast experience in building the CPEs with RDKB software stack for several clients. Zilogic’s strong knowledge on the networking and wireless technologies helped clients to meet the market demands and certifications necessary to qualify the capabilities of the CPEs.

Zilogic’s grasp on the various development and testing tools improved the quality of the products in real-time. This knowledge helped the clients to explore various domain based infrastructures and build turnkey solutions.

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Applications

RDK-B shapes the future of the network gateways, routers and across all types of broadband services, including GPON, 5G, etc. RDK-B stands out as a reference platform for the home gateways with a variety of services tailored made for the NSPs (Network Services Providers). A spectrum of CPE manufacturers, SoC vendors, software integrators and third parties involved in providing a quality broadband services across all backends.

RDK-B offers an ecosystem for the CPE broadband routers to provide triple play services, along with the cloud infrastructure makes it a proven ground for CPE OEMs, ODMs and the service integrators to thrive.

Architecture

The prominent layer in the RDK-B software stack is the middleware layer, which consists of the Ccsp components, persistent storage manager, wan manager, wireless agent, provisioning manager and the various broadband forum data model interfaces for the cloud.

The architecture is flexible and expandable to various network infrastructure managers, such as GPON manager, Voice manager, PPP manager, etc.

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Services Offered

Development

Our capabilities on working with the middleware features of the RDKB include

  • SoC / Platform porting, and bring up of the RDKB Features and services.

  • HAL Development for CCSP components and vendor HAL for OneWifi components.

  • Integrating third party software like Airties mesh controller, Plume OpenSync mesh agent and prplMesh.

  • Upgrading to Latest SDKs from SoC vendor and new versions of RDKBs.

  • Fixing defects in the RDKB CCSP components and upstreaming the fixes.

Devops

  • CI / CD of the RDKB builds for multiple platforms.

  • Remote target flashing and smoke testing

Testing

  • Unit testing of TR-181 data model using the dmcli and TR-069

  • HAL and E2E testing with TDKB and automatics

  • Functional, Interoperability, Performance and Stability of the Wi-Fi and networking features.

  • Test automation for functional testing.

Technologies

  • Access

    • 1G / 2.5G / 10G Ethernet

    • GPON

  • Client Connectivity

    • 1G / 2.5G / 10G Ethernet

    • Wi-Fi 5, 6, 7