DriveNets: Heavy Reading Survey of Network Operators Finds Only 7% Fully Satisfied with Incumbent Networking Vendors
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RA'ANANA, Israel, Sept. 9, 2021 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
- Service providers' desire for network disaggregation and cloud-native
architecture is three times higher than their loyalty to their current IP
network providers
DriveNets ( https://drivenets.com/ ), a leader in cloud-native networking
software and network disaggregation solutions, today shared the results of a
global IP networks survey conducted by Heavy Reading highlighting that just 7
percent of network operators surveyed are fully satisfied with their incumbent
network providers. High costs, lack of openness and innovation are cited as the
main sources of dissatisfaction with their current vendors.
The survey, A Radical Network Change to Cloud (
https://get.drivenets.com/download-heavy-reading-whitepaper-a-radical-network-change-to-cloud
) , which was sponsored by DriveNets, also found increasingly high adoption of
network disaggregation. An average 35 percent of service providers surveyed are
already in the process of adopting modern cloud-native or disaggregated
networks – from access to core – while more than 50 percent plan to do so
within the next five years.
The survey results clearly show that modern networks will be designed like
clouds – based on cloud-native software running over a shared pool of physical
resources – with complete disaggregation of hardware and software. According to
the report, those who ignore these trends do so at their own peril.
"Either the incumbent suppliers adapt to meet the new requirements, or they
will be replaced with more responsive players," said Sterling Perrin, senior
principal analyst at Heavy Reading and author of the report. "Disaggregation is
opening the IP market to new supplier choices that have not existed in decades,
giving operators new power in the buyer-seller relationship."
Results reflect changing industry dynamics
The survey results reflect the changing dynamics between communications service
providers (CSPs) and cloud providers, who are becoming partners as well as
competitors.
"Cloud providers are pursuing CSPs' revenue streams," said Ido Susan,
co-founder and CEO of DriveNets. "They're not only taking on some operational
networking payloads but are also becoming a backbone alternative for enterprise
services. Transforming their network to a modern, fully virtualized
cloud-native architecture will enable them to be more innovative, roll out new
capabilities at the network edge next to new cloud buildouts, and substantially
lower their costs."
Susan cites AT&T's deployment of DriveNets Network Cloud (
) as an example of this innovation:
"AT&T deployed our technology because they, like the rest of the industry, are
focused on building networks that are powerful, scalable, responsive to
fluctuations in demand and open to new innovations. The results of this survey
reinforce that most service providers have realized that a disaggregated,
cloud-native network architecture will take them there."
"Our latest forecasts for disaggregated routers reflect CSP's expanding
interest in this rapidly emerging market," said Shin Umeda, vice president,
Dell'Oro Group. "We expect disaggregated routers in which the network operating
system (NOS) software is sold independently from white box hardware to see
their first large-scale deployments in 2021, for use in both high-capacity core
networks and as cell site devices in mobile backhaul networks."
In addition to the high level of dissatisfaction with current network
suppliers, the report also covers the level of adoption of disaggregation, the
benefits of deploying disaggregated and cloud-native technologies, and the
challenges operators will face if they don't evolve to new network
architectures.
Biggest sources of dissatisfaction with current IP network suppliers
-- High cost – 24 percent
-- Lack of interoperability – 22 percent
Adoption of disaggregated, cloud-native networks is already happening
-- 42 percent of mobile network operators have already deployed this
technology
-- 40 percent of fixed network operators have deployed this technology
Benefits to adopting disaggregated or cloud-native networking technologies
-- Architecture simplification – 45 percent
-- Higher, more flexible scale – 45 percent
-- Virtualization – 44 percent
Download the full report here (
https://get.drivenets.com/download-heavy-reading-whitepaper-a-radical-network-change-to-cloud
).
About DriveNets
DriveNets is a leader in cloud-native networking software and network
disaggregation solutions. Founded in 2015 and based in Israel, DriveNets offers
communications service providers (CSPs) and cloud providers a radical new way
to build networks, substantially growing their profitability by changing their
technological and economic models. DriveNets' solution – Network Cloud – adapts
the architectural model of cloud to telco-grade networking. Network Cloud is a
cloud-native software that runs over a shared physical infrastructure of
standard white-boxes, radically simplifying the network's operations, offering
telco-scale performance and elasticity at a much lower cost. Learn more at
www.drivenets.com
Media contact:
Crystal Monahan
+1-617-290-2882
drivenets@guyergroup.com
Sandra Welfeld
+972-9-774-4726
press@drivenets.com
SOURCE DriveNets
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