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The proof is in the PoC: How Blue Planet powered Capgemini's 5G network slicing proof of concept

Network slicing is the final step of the 5G journey for many Communications Service Providers (CSPs), letting them monetize their networks with innovative new services and accelerate the return on their significant investments. But operational complexity can get in the way.   Kevin Wade, Blue Planet's Senior Director and Product Marketing Team Leader, explains how the Blue Planet converged intelligent automation platform – a key element of Capgemini’s ground-breaking 5G end-to-end network slicing proof of concept (PoC) – overcomes 5G complexity to help CSPs achieve their business goals.

How to quickly mitigate BGP security risks with route analytics

Customers demand 100 percent uptime and bulletproof network security. In this use case from a large mobile network operator, learn how service providers can mitigate BGP security risks with Blue Planet Route Optimization and Analysis.

Network lifecycle automation: Overcoming 5G complexity for scale and profitability

5G promises new and innovative digital experiences for consumers and enterprises alike, but building and maintaining service-ready 5G networks is proving too slow and expensive for many network operators. Balaji Subramanian, Senior Director of Product Line Management at Blue Planet, explains how network lifecycle automation is helping forward-looking Communications Service Providers (CSPs) break free from the constraints of legacy approaches to operations and achieve their business goals.

It takes a village to monetize the dynamic 5G edge

Blue Planet and MATRIXX Software have teamed up to provide a game-changing solution for 5G monetization. Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson explains how combining intelligent automation, real-time monetization, and open standards empowers Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to deliver self-service, high-quality experiences for customers while generating a return on their investment in 5G technology.

Evaluating how your network operations stack up: 3 steps to driving efficient operations with dynamic inventory

How efficient are your operations in supporting the delivery of new dynamic services like 5G, network slicing, edge cloud, and next-gen residential broadband? I’m excited to introduce Blue Planet’s new Dynamic Inventory Value Calculator which helps CSPs quantify the potential business value of dynamic inventory to their business in three simple steps.

Taking a software-driven approach to sustainability

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.

Dynamic inventory lays the foundation for 5G

For CSPs, turning their 5G vision into reality is dependent on fast and profitable service delivery. Achieving this demands an accurate inventory of all their physical and cloud-based resources distributed across multiple domains.Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson details the importance of dynamic inventory management, and how one major CSP is already implementing this approach in their 5G network today.

Analyst Insights: Understanding the key factors for 5G success

Appledore Research’s Francis Haysom details the analyst group's Telco as a Platform (TaaP) research and the six investment needs it identified for platform-based digital transformation, enabling CSPs to overcome the three critical scaling issues for new 5G innovation.

Temporal Observability brings new insights for 5G

The viability of future 5G services hinges on the ability to activate, monitor, and assure thousands of network slices in real-time.  Blue Planet’s Bill Kaufmann details how a new kind of network monitoring – Temporal Observability – provides the foundation upon which dynamic 5G network slices can be built.

Network inventory of the future: delivering the competitive advantage you need

Many network operators know their current network inventory solutions simply don’t support most modern, sophisticated services use-cases. Ryan Jeffery, Director at Passionate About OSS, predicts that a renewed interest in next-gen active inventory has us on the cusp of a revolution in data visualisation that will bring a wide range of benefits.

Blue Planet gives DISH a ‘Dynamic Whiteboard’ to visualize its automated 5G network

As DISH Wireless builds out a first-of-its-kind 5G network across the U.S., it’s leveraging a cutting-edge, standards-based intelligent automation platform with the flexibility to support tens of thousands of dynamic network slices. Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson digs into the details.

Automation Paves the Way to 5G Network Slicing

While automation is important to every stage of the 5G journey, the complexity of end-to-end network slicing makes automation essential. Monica Paolini, Principal at Senza Fili, looks at how automation tames the complexity of 5G network slicing, and shares her expertise to help you select the best automation approach.

5G network slicing: Thinking beyond the RAN

5G network slicing is often discussed in the narrow context of optimizing RAN performance. In this blog, Monica Paolini, Principal at Senza Fili, takes a broader view of network slicing as a way to fundamentally transform how CSPs manage and provision traffic and services end-to-end.

The road to 5G network slicing begins with automation

This year is pivotal for 5G. Mobile operators will continue to deploy 5G network globally and are increasingly investing in standalone 5G, which will help enable network slicing at scale. But getting there is a journey that requires intelligent automation every step of the way - from network planning through implementation.Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson outlines how Blue Planet’s new 5G Automation solution provides operators with an open-standard based path on their journey to 5G giving them the ability to quickly build a scalable and agile multi-vendor 5G network.

Blue Orbit Partner Spotlight: Capgemini tackles radical network transformation

In our Blue Orbit Partner Spotlight blogs series, we highlight innovative solutions from Blue Planet’s partner ecosystem and discuss the market trends that are driving them. In this latest installment of the series, we feature Capgemini.

Our Blue Orbit Ecosystem expands with addition of AWS and Azure

New technology alliances with major global cloud providers are elevating our ecosystem and accelerating customers’ Digital Transformation. Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson provides the details.

Winning the race to the 5G edge with intelligent automation

As Communication Service Providers and their ecosystem partners – which include hyperscale cloud operators and application/NFV software vendors – are building out 5G edge infrastructure to deliver innovative digital experiences for their consumer and enterprise customers, they have identified open, programmable, and modular automation solutions as essential to success. Kailem Anderson, Vice President of Portfolio and Engineering at Blue Planet, provides more insight on these efforts.

AI-based automated assurance is a 5G necessity

In a 5G world, automation is mandatory because it is impossible for Communications Service Providers (CSPs) to meet customer requirements for dynamic ultra-low latency and high availability services using manual provisioning and management processes. CSPs need assurance solutions that use Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning to automate the trouble-to-resolve process in order to deliver the cloud-like network experiences customers want.

Want to Monetize 5G? Start with Dynamic and Federated Inventory

Network inventory management has become a huge pain point for CSPs because they have so many legacy systems operating in silos. Blue Planet's Sandra Lowenstein details how federation technology can unify inventory data to provide a single 'source of truth' in an evolutionary approach to OSS.

Telefónica aims to turn OSS silos into a data democracy

Telefónica is undertaking a massive effort to digitally transform into a data-driven company. One of the first steps is turning silos of Operations Support Systems (OSS) into a “data democracy,” which means making data available to anyone in the company who needs it, according to José Antonio Lozano López, Telefónica’s Head of Service & Network Management Architecture.

Why automation is key to delivering digital experiences everywhere

From ordering groceries online and having them delivered to your doorstep to streaming the latest box office movie directly to your phone, people want real digital experiences everywhere, including from their CSPs. At our recent Blue Planet Virtual Insiders Forum (VIF), we heard from customers, partners, and industry analysts who explained how CSPs are embracing automation to deliver these digital experiences. Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson highlights some of his learnings and takeaways below.

An AI/AR Approach to Inventory Network Synchronization

I was recently invited to present a paper on the topic of augmented reality (AR) and artificial intelligence (AI) approaches for inventory network synchronization at SCTE Cable-Tec 2021. Given the level of interest by participants in the use of these advanced technologies, I thought I would share a summary below.

The benefits of edge computing for telcos

From speed and bandwidth to security and adaptability, edge computing offers a host of innovations for telcos. But in order to realize these benefits, they'll need to fundamentally rethink their OSS architecture and embrace automation. Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson details how telcos can get started.

Winning at the edge: How openness and automation help clear the biggest hurdles standing in the way of delivering edge cloud services

Our industry is still in the process of clearly defining what and where “the edge” is, with multiple stakeholders both competing and cooperating in this high-stakes race. This makes openness and automation vital for service providers to successfully manage and deliver new edge cloud services to end-customers, says Kailem Anderson, VP of Blue Planet.
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