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Blue Planet’s productized, open 5G automation solution gives you a roadmap for accelerating every stage of your 5G journey—from network planning and preparation through implementation and monetization.
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“Blue Planet is a key component within our 5G platform, allowing us to dynamically manage all of our network inventory and service orders in real-time. With Blue Planet’s open, agile, and programmable approach, DISH can rapidly deploy services and allocate resources to wholesale and enterprise customers, allowing them to provision network slices based on SLAs.”
- Marc Rouanne, Executive Vice President and Chief Network Officer, DISH
“Telefónica is moving away from legacy single-vendor platforms to a model combining best-of-breed solutions from multiple vendors, enabling us to maintain diversity in our network and avoid depending on one vendor. In Germany, Blue Planet’s software executes our SDN program to enable not only multivendor transport but also automation of our network.”
- Cayetano Carbajo Martín, Global Director of Technology, Telefónica GCTIO
“People around the world are relying more heavily on digital applications to improve productivity wherever they work. With Ciena’s Blue Planet software, BT further establishes itself as a partner of choice for organizations looking to provide outstanding user experience for their people accessing virtual work environments. It’s a fantastic example of how we’re innovating with a new generation of technology providers to deliver fresh solutions and the best experience for customers.”
- Hriday Ravindranath, Chief Technology and Information Officer, Global, BT
"Etisalat as a global leader in many technologies and innovations continuously aims to enhance its leadership, position, network efficiency and provide superior customer experience, and a “zero-touch network target” is a tool to achieve this. Transport network is in the heart of all autonomous networks, and the deployment of Blue Planet solution is a major step in our strategy to create more agile on demand adaptive networks."
- Haitham Abdulrazzak, Chief Technology Officer, Etisalat
Working with Blue Planet , Windstream used intelligent automation to make its managed SD-WAN service more agile and dynamic. The result: Provisioning time and costs dropped 80% and 60%, respectively.
Australian service provider, Telstra International, shared how they have dramatically simplified management of network resources with a new, dynamic inventory management system based on Blue Planet Inventory.
“This underpins our strategy of moving away from being a pure connectivity play… I'm laying the foundations of network-as-a-platform, a standardised network that is easily programmable and configurable.”
- Andrea Dona, Chief Network Officer, Vodafone UK
“To underpin the UK’s digital ambitions, it’s important the operational environment efficiently supports a better connected future. Blue Planet supports our commitment to achieving speed and scale as the dynamic requirements from our customers continue to evolve.”
- Dave Eddy, COO, Neos Networks
Colt Technology Services deployed Blue Planet software to proactively anticipate – and even act upon – potential issues in the company’s high-bandwidth and low-latency IQ Network before they occur. Integrated multi-layer network and service assurance leverages advanced analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) to helps Colt accelerate time to market for new services, and improve the customer experience.
At Blue Planet, we understand customer experience is everything. Our mission is to simplify the services lifecycle so you can accelerate your pace of digital transformation. Bringing together holistic automation expertise across operations, cloud, and the network, our approach focuses on open and well-defined products.
Blue Planet’s Kevin Wade details key software advancements that are helping Communication Service Providers reach their sustainability targets, and how one specific intelligent automation use case allows network operators to directly address their energy consumption challenges.
Successful management of dynamic 5G slices and services requires end-to-end observability. Explore the concept of temporal observability, why it’s critical to 5G, and how Blue Planet enables temporal observability for a network slice from any tower to data center, helping you successfully deliver and assure 5G services.