And just as you can set up a highway with automated cars driving at a hundred miles an hour six inches apart, said Donovan, you can “take the same copper wire designed to carry a two-ringy-dingy voice phone call and make it carry eight streams of video by maximizing how the bits perform. Software adapts and learns. Hardware can’t. So, we blew apart the hardware components, and we forced everyone to think anew. We basically turned the hardware into a commodity and then created a baseline operating system for every router, and called it ONOS, for Open Network Operating System.”
