High-Scale, Cloud-Native Networking Solution

Learn more

DriveNets Network Cloud Solution

DriveNets Network Cloud is a cloud-native networking solution that transforms traditional monolithic routers into a disaggregated, software-based networking infrastructure, running on standard white-box hardware. It enables service providers and hyperscalers to build scalable, cost-efficient networks with greater agility, automation, and operational simplicity. By decoupling software from hardware, DriveNets Network Cloud optimizes network performance and provides an open, carrier-grade solution that supports massive scalability from core to edge using the same white-box building blocks.
Service Provider Routing

DriveNets Network Cloud

DriveNets Network Cloud enables network and cloud operators to transform their networking infrastructure, building their networks like cloud-infrastructure, unlocking the cost, flexibility, and innovation benefits. Inspired by the cloud-native, virtualized approach of hyperscale clouds, Network Cloud adapts these principles to high-scale networking.

  • Hardware and software separation: Running network functions as cloud-native software on standard networking white boxes.
  • Simplified, distributed architecture: The new architecture seamlessly scales from 2.4 Tbps to 921 Tbps, supporting routing services from core to edge with maximum efficiency and the lowest cost.
  • Efficient operational model: Leveraging automation and AIOps tools with the advantages of cloud-driven networking.

Network Cloud comprises:

Network-Cloud

Ecosystem

DriveNets actively collaborates with leading industry organizations driving the evolution of next-generation network infrastructure. DriveNets partners with key communities such as the OCP and TIP. These collaborations reinforce DriveNets' commitment to fostering an open, scalable, and disaggregated networking ecosystem, enabling service providers to deploy more agile and cost-efficient core and edge networks.

Features and Benefits

Software disaggregated from hardware

  • Software provided by DriveNets
  • Hardware supplied by ODM vendors (e.g. UfiSpace, Edgecore)
  • Hardware tested, certified and maintained by DriveNets

Data plane disaggregated from control plane

  • Distributed data plane powered by high-performance merchant silicon
  • Centralized control plane based on x86 appliances
  • Independent scaling of each plane

End-to-end responsibility

  • The entire solution is under DriveNets responsibility
  • Lower-cost white box hardware
  • Same hardware and software building blocks for any use case, reducing complexity and overhead
  • Lowest # of ports – eliminating ports serving internal traffic as in Clos and similar architectures
  • Lowest # of ports – eliminating ports serving internal traffic as in Clos and similar architectures
  • Simplified operations with smart automation, reducing operational overhead

Resiliency, high-availability and QoS

  • Fast reroute for unicast and multicast networks
  • Smooth restart
  • Non-stop routing (NSR)
  • Deep buffer and multiple quality-of-service (QoS) mechanisms

Configuration and management

  • Legacy interfaces and protocols (CLI, SNMP, syslog)
  • Open standard interfaces (NETCONF/YANG, gNMI/gRPC, open APIs)

Unified, virtualized infrastructure

  • Full abstraction of networking and compute resources
  • Hardware-agnostic

Containerized microservice-based software

Standard northbound interfaces

  • Open APIs, OpenConfig models, NETCONF/YANG, gNMI, CLI, SNMP

High capacity and scale

High availability

  • Multi-level redundancy configuration

Fast innovation

  • Support of telco cloud / edge cloud / 5G services

Unified, virtualized infrastructure

Automated operations

Support and maintenance

  • Single point of support for any software or hardware issue
  • Multi-level SLA tiers
  • Standard ticketing system
  • Deployed at Tier-1 service providers worldwide (AT&T, Comcast, KDDI and others)
  • Highest-scale solution in production with high-availability and resiliency
New Economic Model

Detaching network growth from network cost, Network Cloud’s flat software pricing is changing the network’s cost structure and increasing its profitability.

Read more