DriveNets nabbed TechTarget's innovation award for its take on software-based, disaggregated routing, aimed at helping Tier 1 and Tier 2 carriers scale their networks like hyperscale cloud providers, efficiently and inexpensively. The company's software behaves as a single router entity that can operate on a single white box or across clusters of up to 200.
AT&T has deployed DriveNets technology throughout its core network, running on UfiSpace white boxes. With a 75% virtualized network, the carrier said software-based technology helped it pivot to meet the unexpected demands of the COVID-19 crisis.
"Having a much more software-centric network allows us to respond much more rapidly to any new demand on the network, even those caused by worldwide pandemics," Andre Fuetsch, executive vice president and computer engineer vs computer science at AT&T, said during his keynote speech at the Open Networking & Edge Summit in September 2020.
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