Automated Deployment, Scaling and Management

DriveNets Orchestrator (DNOR) automates the deployment, scaling and management of the DriveNets Network Cloud solution. With advanced automation, enhanced visibility and smart insights, DNOR brings a cutting-edge orchestration experience to networks – from network infrastructure resources to service instances.

Automated Operations

Automates resource lifecycle management across clusters and cluster elements

Multi-service Orchestration

Orchestrates hosted networking or third-party services anywhere, any time and at any scale

Health Assurance & Monitoring

Ensures network availability and performance via granular visibility and real-time insights

DriveNets Network Orchestrator

The cloud-native, open, distributed network model introduces new challenges for operations teams. DNOR is designed not only to resolve these challenges but also to radically transform how networks are deployed and maintained.

DNOR eliminates operational complexity by orchestrating and managing the entire Network Cloud solution like an integrated single-vendor network. Unlike traditional black box solutions, DNOR offers greater control, visibility and insights with both granular and complete views of the system – including hardware components, firmware or software containers across clusters and cluster elements. This accelerates troubleshooting, increases availability and ensures optimized network performance.

Breaking the monolithic software model, DNOR’s container-level orchestration accelerates the introduction, deployment and scale of hosted services, whether DriveNets or third-party. With a shared virtualized network infrastructure utilized to its fullest, DNOR reduces new service time-to-revenue and minimizes maintenance windows.

Features & Benefits

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Zero-touch provisioning

  • Build and provision unconfigured white boxes into working nodes

Consistent single-entity management

  • Any deployment type is managed as a single entity
  • Regardless of topology, size or location

Modular software orchestration

  • Automated installation, upgrades and scaling of firmware, BaseOS, NOS containers, and hosted services
  • Across clusters and cluster elements
  • Leverages the benefits of disaggregated architecture
  • Operates with the same level of simplicity as monolithic routers

Short maintenance windows

  • Reduces maintenance windows and service interruption for software and service upgrades down to minutes

High network reliability

  • Automatic scaling and failovers
  • Self-healing provided by container orchestration

Service catalog

  • Easy introduction of network and third-party services as hosted containerized/virtualized applications

Automated deployment and scale

  • Resource allocation, scale and QoS through container orchestration
  • Deploy any service, anywhere, on any port, at any scale

Best shared-infrastructure use of resources

  • Maximizes resource utilization among hosted services
  • Ensures service level requirements

Granular cluster topology visibility

  • Real-time view of cluster elements, states, formation and connectivity
  • Cluster and network-wide levels

Advanced fault and performance management

  • Real-time alarm monitoring
  • Technical support tools
  • Advanced analytics

Standard northbound interfaces

  • Open APIs
  • OpenConfig/YANG models

High network availability and performance

  • Proactive monitoring
  • Reduced mean-time-to-resolve

Fast legacy system integration

  • Reduced integration time with legacy operational and management systems (OSS/BSS, orchestrators)
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