VAS Experts DPI may need to be upgraded to a newer version due to increased volume of transit traffic. This will require upgrading both the license and equipment. In case a suitable hardware platform was originally chosen, the CPU upgrade and increasing the amount of RAM and network cards will be enough. And moreover the license upgrade plays into the calculation the cost of existing one.

The key platform parameters (the number of sessions, adresses, subscribers an so on) are adjusted by the following setting:

scale_factor=1

where the number roughly corresponds to the channel width in gigabytes.

In some cases it may be required to add a number of subscribers without increasing the traffic volume. In this case the following setting will do the trick:

mem_ip_metadata_recs=500000

where the number specifies the maximum quantity of subscriber profiles to be created, please, look through the technical details of platform and make it clear the maximum size of the subscriber base. Do not use a larger value here than you need.

When configuring a multicluster, you need to specify the distribution of network interfaces over clusters:

in_dev = dna0 | dna2
out_dev = dna1 | dna3

here,
the sign | separates pairs of interfaces related to different clusters
dna0 ↔ dna1 is the pair of the first cluster
dna2 ↔ dna3 is the pair of the second cluster