DriveNets Network Cloud Overview
Dudy Cohen, DriveNets’ VP of Product Marketing, started the event by introducing DriveNets, and exploring the concept of Network Cloud and how DriveNets is bringing this approach to service providers by building networks like cloud. Dudy expanded on how operators can leverage optimal scaling, reduce costs, and achieve faster innovation by fundamentally changing how they build their network infrastructure.
DriveNets Network Cloud is a cloud-native software solution that turns the physical network into a shared resource supporting multiple network services in the most efficient way possible.
Drivenets shows us their strategy, all based on software. Give me the server, I will build the world on top. pic.twitter.com/5GDbaYGoW0
— David Peñaloza (@davidsamuelps) December 8, 2021
DriveNets is already deployed with service providers around the world, transforming their networks to a cloud-native infrastructure.
Do you want your networking vendor to sell you routers, or a network?@drivenets is betting it’s the latter…#NFDSP1 pic.twitter.com/0wcrHo6X8B
— ???? ᑕᕼᖇIᔕ GᖇᑌᑎᗪEᗰᗩᑎᑎ @ #NFDSP1 (@ChrisGrundemann) December 8, 2021
DriveNets Network Cloud and “Serviceagility”
Run Almog, DriveNets’ Head of Product Strategy, took the discussion a step further, explaining how we build a ‘serviceagile’ network. He explained how DriveNets Network Cloud serves as a resource utilization optimizer and a service innovation catalyst, delivering many benefits to the market, including operating multiple network functions from multiple domains (routing, security, mobile, access etc.) over a shared, unified, cloud-native, networking-optimized infrastructure.
Kicking off with @drivenets talking about the economics of service provider networks.
Having dealt with the financial side of ISP mergers, acquisitions and greenfields, I agree with this take….we are moving away from the big chassis world, the ROI doesn’t work. #NFDSP1 pic.twitter.com/ZeNu1asIYD
— Kevin Myers (@stubarea51) December 8, 2021
Utilizing the same hardware throughout the network infrastructure – from core to access – simplifies inventory management and reduces opex. This also breaks vendor lock by being able to select white boxes independently from networking software, growing the network to support traffic needs by adding more white boxes only as needed.
@drivenets seems to be heading towards talking about how orchestration can enable you to scale out vs. up in ways that you couldn’t in the past (where it was easier to manage One Big Box vs. 20 small ones. If so, that’s a take I highly agree with. #NFDSP1
— Chris Cummings (@crankynetman) December 8, 2021
DriveNets Services Marketplace Evolution
In the third part, Yuval Moshe, DriveNets’ VP of Product, went deeper on how adding services to the Network Cloud marketplace creates a rich multiservice environment that extends beyond routing, to multiple network domains, including security, analytics, mobile, access etc. – with applications from DriveNets and 3rd parties, as well as home-grown.
Hardware agnostic and all software driven. Show me yours and we will make it work! #NFDSP1 pic.twitter.com/4uUMictYT0
— David Peñaloza (@davidsamuelps) December 8, 2021
Disaggregated Network Momentum
In the past two years, the market has experienced a significant push towards cloud-native, disaggregated networks, with service providers facing increased traffic demand exacerbated by the new challenges created by the virus. Service providers are now looking at how cloud-based networks can reduce the high-costs and complexity related to ongoing network growth.
By engaging with networking experts, and focusing on today’s challenges, the momentum grows around how to bring a cloud-native solution to the service provider market.
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Introducing Network Cloud: Transforming Service Provider Networks