DriveNets Network Cloud allows network and cloud operators to build their network like clouds – delivering the cost, flexibility and innovation benefits of this powerful new architecture. It takes inspiration from the cloud-native, virtualized approach of hyperscale clouds and adapts it to high-scale networks.
Separating hardware from software, the data plane is disaggregated from the control plane, running cloud-native software on standard networking white boxes from multiple original design manufacturers (ODMs). Relying on a simplified, distributed architecture and a fully virtualized hardware infrastructure, it can easily scale from 2.4Tbps to 819Tbps. Network Cloud supports routing services – from core to edge – and any hosted third-party service (e.g. security, 5G, IoT, gaming) with maximum efficiency and at the lowest cost.
DriveNets Network Cloud brings an efficient operational model that’s as simple to operate as traditional networks, advancing cloud benefits in the network.
Network Cloud comprises:
Software disaggregated from hardware
Data plane disaggregated from control plane
Delivered as one solution
Resiliency, high-availability and QoS
Configuration and management
Unified, shared virtualized infrastructure
Containerized microservice-based software
Standard northbound interfaces
High capacity and scale
High availability
Fast innovation
Unified, shared virtualized infrastructure
Automated operations
Support and maintenance
Detaching network growth from network cost, Network Cloud’s flat software pricing is changing the network’s cost structure and increasing its profitability.