The People Behind DriveNets: Ryan Donnelly

Meeting DriveNets CEO and co-founder, Ido Susan, Ryan was impressed with the ambition and scope behind the DriveNets vision. “Ido...

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How Does Network Innovation Improve the Operational Experience?

When I first joined the Air Force, its zero-mistake policy struck me as particularly strict. Even if the technical ground...

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Telecom Industry Predictions for 2023

2022 was an interesting year. Now, it’s that time of year again when we look at what experts from the...

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Last Christmas (of a Network Engineer) 

To get a little deeper into the holiday spirit, we’ve given our spin on an old favorite “Last Christmas”, taking...

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Oops, We Did It Again!  What Makes DriveNets the Company of the Year

Like me, many of you have probably worked for several companies, which hopefully were positive experiences that left you with...

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Can Network Disaggregation create a true elastic network?

When I was a young radio access network (RAN) engineer at Orange, the air interface looked like magic. But as...

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Distributed Disaggregated Chassis (DDC) V2 Makes Network Operations Even Simpler

Sequels are sometimes considered redundant. Merely a ~two-hour yawn that adds little value if any to the original piece. An...

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Why I Hate It When My Vendor Is Losing Money…

Exactly 20 years ago, in 2002, I was heading the engineering department of an Israeli ISP.  One of our main projects...

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How to Choose Your Next Carrier-Grade Networking Vendor

Availability and performance continue to be key differentiators for service providers, especially in the business sector. Yet the need for...

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Fusing Components into Network Solutions at Fÿuz

Just got back from attending Fÿuz, the annual TIP summit in Madrid, and it was all that I expected and...

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Networking Nightmares! Ghoulish Growth, Creepy Costs and Spooky Supply Chains

Halloween is not only a dark and stormy night for telling scary stories, but also a good time to reflect...

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Cost Avoidance and Cost Savings with DriveNets Network Cloud

A cost is a cost is a cost, right? Well, not exactly. Procurement people differentiate between “cost savings” and “cost avoidance.”...

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Make Your Procurement Team Shine with DriveNets Network Cloud

  In the past it was discussed how DriveNets can make your CFO happy. Now, I would like to take a...

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Your Next Network Outage Can Be Shorter!

I hate outages – not only professionally, but also personally. In fact, during my (too) many years in the networking world,...

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Disaggregation’s Future: A Question of “When,” Not “If”?

I had the privilege of boarding the disaggregation train when it first left the station about a decade ago. You...

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Is There an Afterlife Following the “End of Life” Notice?

A couple of weeks ago, I stumbled upon an “end of life” (EoL) notification released by one of the incumbent...

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IT? NT? CT! A New Type of Skill Set

Wait. What? ...

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The Emergence of the New Network Edge

There is a lot of discussion about that elusive “network edge” and what that means as enterprises and service providers...

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Why the Cloud Doesn’t Matter

… and what does this have to do with the NYC subway system? Cloud technology services look like they’ve always been...

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Network Sustainability Bites…

There are lots of topics discussed today under the term “sustainability.” I will try to touch a few network-related “flavors”...

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Scaling Out Your Network, Without Headaches, by Scaling

When thinking about scaling out your network, infrastructure and services, a big headache is usually what comes into mind. ...

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Don’t Let Your Network End Up Just a “Dumb Pipe”

“It’s all pipes! What is the difference?!” argued George, in one of my all-time favorite Seinfeld episodes. This is  a phrase...

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Do You Have a Woodpecker in Your Network?

Recently I had the opportunity to meet astronaut Don Thomas, who from 1994 to 1997, served on four space shuttle...

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Telecom TV Panel Explores Disaggregated Networking

DriveNets chief marketing and product officer Inbar Lasser-Raab recently participated in a panel discussion hosted by Telecom TV on disaggregated...

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How Disaggregation Won

The idea of open networking and disaggregation has been the goal of buyers of networking hardware and software for a...

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5 Takeaways from MWC 22

5G, metaverse, cloud, people and more It’s been three years! Three long and strange years since I was last in Barcelona...

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5G: Is There a Killer “App” on the Loose?

A good murder mystery unfolds backwards. The timeline of both crime and investigation is reconstructed as it goes forward. The great ones...

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Network Capacity and Service Growth: The Struggle

It’s time to look at this *struggle* in a different way, and solve it like hyperscalers… or better yet, like...

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Telecom Networks Shouldn’t Settle, Make a Difference

You know those situations when it’s just clear that, a moment later, the scene will change? For me, it is...

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From Concept to Disruption: The Evolution of DriveNets

DriveNets was established six years ago with the ambition of making networks as good as hyperscale cloud infrastructures. ...

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