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Federation: Building the single source of truth for your network

Recently, Australia-based 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. Telstra calls its new

TIME dotCom accelerates troubleshooting network issues by 47% with Blue Planet

To provide a more reliable service to connect Asia with the rest of the world, Malaysia’s leading internet service provider upgrades its network with Blue Planet software. Dion Leung, Ciena’s regional managing director for ASEAN, discusses how

Become a hero for your customers and colleagues: how to troubleshoot and fault-fix your network faster

Understanding traffic flows across your network can be a massive help when it comes to managing routing changes and optimizing your peering. But Jürgen Hatheier, CTO EMEA at Ciena, points out that by adding performance data, and being able to

Rethinking NaaS as a journey to openness and automation

NaaS can feel like an abstract concept, and various misconceptions abound on what it is and what is possible. But as Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson explains, NaaS has measurable and quantifiable benefits that are achievable today.

What Is Network as a Service?

NaaS is an operational framework that leverages model-driven abstraction, open APIs, and service lifecycle automation to enable true operations and network

Are you missing a major opportunity to take your network operations to the next level?

Modern IP MPLS networks are highly dynamic, which is great news in terms of handling incidents and keeping your customer-facing services online. Unfortunately, though, being ‘dynamic’ also means rapid routing changes, which create a raft of

Planning for 5G Success: A Tale of Two Operators

The industry is moving forward with 5G deployments, motivated by differentiated service offerings. Blue Planet’s Soumen Chatterjee describes how 5G Automation is helping two mobile network operators plan their own path to 5G success.

Today’s virtual world is making inroads into the 5G world

Over the last months, we’ve all adapted to new ways of working, socializing, and living, as coronavirus pandemic precautions have been instituted across the globe. The relative ease with which our communications networks have dealt with the

Q&A with LightRiver's Travis Ewert: Enhancing multi-vendor, multi-layer visibility and automation

Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson talks to Travis Ewert, COO of LightRiver Software, about how the combination of Blue Planet and LightRiver netFLEX to enhance visibility and automation across multi-vendor, multi-layer networks.

Blue Planet opens to ONAP

Blue Planet is stepping up its ONAP collaboration in an effort to help leading CSPs accelerate their adoption of open, automated network operations and policy-driven orchestration. Blue Planet's Kailem Anderson explains how and why.

How quickly can you activate new MPLS services?

MPLS tunnels are the go-to technology to deliver network services. But provisioning and activation can take days or even weeks. Blue Planet’s Mitch Auster details how

More speed for 5G with Zero-Touch Network Slicing

The network slicing capabilities in 5G networks promise to open a plethora of new use cases around guaranteed speeds, low latency, reliability, and more. Ciena’s Soumen Chatterjee details these new opportunities, as well as how zero-touch slice

Automation: Take the fast lane on the path to 5G

For years we’ve been hearing that 2020 would be the year that 5G networks would begin to be deployed. Well, it’s finally here, and MNOs are indeed starting to roll out 5G services. But beyond new phones and RAN technology, it’s going to be those

What Is Network Slicing?

Network slicing is a method of creating multiple unique logical and virtualized networks over a common multi-domain infrastructure. Using Software-Defined Networking

How automation is transforming managed SD-WAN services

The rapid rise in the popularity of SD-WAN has many service providers scrambling to operationalize and integrate new SD-WAN solutions into their existing managed business services portfolios. Lee Doyle, principal analyst at Doyle Research, details

Multi-Layer Networking: Unifying IP and optical network management

Multi-layer networks pose a unique challenge in moving to network automation, as the IP/MPLS and optical layers in a multi-layer network are typically managed by

Is automation enough for digital transformation?

Many leading service providers are already concluding that automation is not enough to drive complete digital transformation. Complex decision making at super-human speeds requires intelligent automation, machine learning, and AI, all of which are

Closing the Loop: Ciena closes acquisition of Centina

Ciena has officially closed the acquisition of Centina Systems, which will be integrated into our Blue Planet division. Kailem Anderson, VP of Portfolio and Engineering for Blue Planet, details the crucial set of capabilities Centina brings that

Move over technology, it’s all about customer experience

At last week’s SDN & NFV World Congress, the event that ushered in SDN and NFV technologies back in 2012, it was acknowledged that software control and virtualization have matured to the point that they are now considered table stakes in today’s

Are broken inventory systems stalling your automation strategy?

Automating your network’s operational processes is the goal, but you can’t automate what you can’t see. Here's why the foundation of a successful automation strategy starts with fixing your legacy inventory systems and processes.
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