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5G Automation

Fast track your 5G journey.

State of the art 5G automation solutions

Blue Planet’s open, modular, and cloud-native 5G Automation solutions—which include network planning and deployment and network slicing—accelerate every step of your 5G journey.

Our solutions are built on the Blue Planet Cloud Native Platform, a modern OSS that converges design, fulfillment, and assurance software applications to eliminate inefficient operational silos and help streamline the introduction and delivery of innovative services across network domains and vendors. Both the Blue Planet platform and our 5G automation solutions can be flexibly deployed in private and public clouds or consumed in an elastic software-as-a-service (SaaS) model in complete alignment with your technical and business needs.

Network planning and deployment

Create a slice-ready network

Destination 5G: Your path to simplified network planning and deployment

Blue Planet’s 5G network planning and deployment solution accelerates and optimizes complex multi-vendor 5G planning and rollouts. Vendor-agnostic, it supports automation in any Kubernetes-based cloud and helps CSPs quickly introduce best-of-breed networks with the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) and the greatest scalability and sustainability.

ORCHESTRATION

Blue Planet Orchestration (BPO) accelerates network buildouts by automating the deployment of cloud network functions (CNFs) and virtual network functions (VNFs) in the RAN and 5G Core—reducing pre-deployment preparation time by up to 90% and ensuring optimal resource placement. Part of the Blue Planet’s Orchestration suite, the RAN Domain Controller and Orchestrator (RAN DCO) provides RAN lifecycle management, including out-of-the-box support for all major RAN equipment vendors.

Business benefits

No. 1

Improves planning process with a unified and accurate view of physical and virtual resources across vendors and domains

No. 2

Reduces OPEX and improves sustainability with optimal resource placement and automated CNF/VNF deployment

No. 3

Flexibly supports traditional and vRAN architectures and provides SMO for seamless evolution to O-RAN

No. 4

Increases business agility with multi-cloud orchestration

No. 5

Easily deployed in private/public/hybrid clouds or consumed in a SaaS model

No. 6

Simplifies troubleshooting with network and resource correlation and visualization

Network Slicing

Automated end-to-end slice lifecycle management

Our 5G Network Slicing solution helps you fully monetize your 5G investments, letting you cater to new vertical markets, business models, and customer demands.

The cloud-native solution combines advanced inventory,  orchestration, and assurance software applications to provide world-class zero-touch slice lifecycle automation end-to-end across complex multi-vendor, multi-domain, and multi-cloud 5G networks. Our standards-based and vendor-agnostic solution efficiently enables innovative on-demand slice-based services at scale to help you accelerate the return on your 5G investments.

Network Slicing Diagram

Business benefits

No. 1

Accelerates time-to-market—and time to revenue—for compelling new slice-based services

No. 2

Vendor-agnostic solution works across complex, ‘best-of-breed’ 5G domains and clouds

No. 3

Automated slice monitoring and assurance increases service reliability and protects SLAs

No. 4

RAN DCO supports business driven evolution to multi-vendor O-RAN architectures

No. 5

Converged automation solution reduces OPEX and permits operational excellence at scale

No. 6

Easily deployed in private/public/hybrid clouds or consumed in a SaaS model

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