We know that every small ISP starts with Mikrotik equipment and that it has a very intuitive “graphic” interface (via its own application, Winbox). Many ISPs grow with these facilities in hand and end up using them for various operational and often administrative tasks.

There have been instances where I’ve encountered ISPs that based their entire management system on the features offered by “Winbox,” including user authorization. Eventually, these ISPs and service providers grow, and the capacity of Mikrotik equipment no longer meets certain performance and scalability requirements—such as the number of users a single router can support while ensuring quality of service—which ultimately forces them to adopt other solutions to meet their business needs.

When an ISP reaches that point, we know it ends up buying equipment from manufacturers like Huawei, Juniper, Cisco, and the like. I once read something along those lines “Huawei is the new bacon of Brazilian Internet service providers.” (Author unknown) in Brazil Peering Forum, but we know that these devices do not have a “graphical interface” and are managed entirely via the CLI, which ends up being one of the major obstacles preventing small, medium, and even large companies from replacing their routers, since having to manage the equipment via CLI entails a series of other issues, such as staff training and development, changes to internal processes to make them compatible with the capabilities and information provided by the router, etc.—factors that are sometimes not taken into account by ISPs and service providers.

Thus, Made4Graph was born. Made4Graph came from the need of one of our customers, precisely, to deal more “quietly” with a BNG/BRAS that only had access via CLI (Command Line). Far from wanting to be a similar software or “imitate” Winbox, in Made4Graph we bring a single point of management for BNGs/BRAS with support for the main manufacturers in the market and recently support for the TR069 protocol for managing even the end user’s CPE.

Underneath, we have a software that “talks” with the Radius of the ISP and with the BNGs/B-RAS of the network, orchestrating a precise collection of information from the assets involved and bringing all of this in a coherent and simple way to understand in a WEB page . As I said, far from wanting to be a “Winbox”, we bring in Made4Graph a tool to add to the ISP’s support body with data and actions that aim to minimize the operational cost of support and “make everyone’s life easier”.

Want to know more about this software? Visit the demo version (link) or talk to our sales team to clear up any doubts and schedule a presentation. – Gabriel Henrique, a Network Analyst at Made4it, has been working with technology and ISPs for over 10 years.

Want to know more about this software? Visit the demo version or talk to our commercial team to clear up any doubts and schedule a presentation.

– Gabriel Henrique, a Network Analyst at Made4it, has been working with technology and ISPs for over 10 years.