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RA'ANANA, Israel, June 10, 2020 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --

- Vendor recognized in research designed to highlight interesting, new and

innovative vendors, products and services

DriveNets [https://drivenets.com/], the networking software company, announced

today that they have been named a Gartner Cool Vendor in the Communications

Service Provider Network Operations

[https://get.drivenets.com/gartner-cool-vendor-report-drivenets/] in May 2020.

DriveNets Network Cloud solution offers a disruptive technological and economic

networking model that is based on an innovative distributed disaggregated

chassis (DDC) architecture. It is unique in the market for its ability to

support any network with a single flexible router architecture that can scale

from a small size router to the largest router size available in the market.

This solution is based on one cloud-native software stack developed by

DriveNets and only two types of white box building blocks supported by an

ecosystem of industry vendors.

"We believe the recognition validates a tremendous market shift towards open

software-based architectures which are more relevant than ever with the traffic

growth and demand changes we are witnessing today." - Ido Susan, CEO and

co-founder, DriveNets

The report notes key information: "The Cool Vendors featured in this document

provide solutions to innovate network operations. This approach differs from

current solutions that satisfy limited portions of the digital service

providers' vision. CSPs can use these solutions for greater agility in

delivering new services, revenue enhancement through customer retention, and

network efficiencies via virtualization, cloud-native application adoption and

automation," wrote Peter Liu, Kosei Takiishi, Michael Porowski, Sylvain Fabre,

analysts at Gartner.

"The networking service provider market is at a turning point. We are seeing a

series of market changes, acquisitions and new partnerships, as well as strong

endorsement of open software based network technologies with an active

participation of standard bodies. DriveNets is honored to be part of this

change and see our vision of disrupting the service provider market in the same

way that the hyperscalers changed the data center; we think our recognition by

Gartner validates this." - Hillel Kobrinsky, Chief Strategy Office and

Co-founder, DriveNets

In April, Bank of America Global Research released a report [

https://drivenets.com/blog/bank-of-america-boa-calls-white-box-routing-a-transformative-disruption/]

on why whiteboxing is the future of the networking space and singled out

DriveNets as the leading player in the space. In addition, DriveNets was

selected to give the largest ever live demonstration of a distributed open

edge/core router, the first Distributed Disaggregated Chassis, at the OCP

Virtual Summit [ https://drivenets.com/blog/takeaways-from-ocp-virtual-summit/]

along with ecosystem partners UfiSpace and Credo. This landmark achievement

reflects industry excitement about the need for truly disaggregated solutions.

DriveNets was also invited to advise the TIP (Telecom Infra Project)

Disaggregated Open Router Initiative [

https://telecominfraproject.com/tip-community-momentum-driven-by-new-operator-demand-technology-solutions-and-industry-alliances/]

and ensure its alignment with the OCP's efforts around network disaggregation.

Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its

research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only

those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research

publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and

should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all

warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any

warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About DriveNets

DriveNets is a fast-growing IP networking software company, introducing a

radical new way to build networks for service and cloud providers, enabling

higher capacity and service scale at a much lower cost.

Founded by Ido Susan and Hillel Kobrinsky, two successful telco entrepreneurs,

DriveNets Network Cloud is the leading open distributed disaggregated routing

solution based on cloud-native software and standard white boxes, that

disaggregates the network from core to edge, building the high-scale network

infrastructures of the future.

Media Contact:

Judith Arkush

Silicon Valley Communications

judith@siliconvpr.com

Source: DriveNets