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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 standards-based, vendor-agnostic solutions can be flexibly deployed in the cloud or consumed in a SaaS model in full alignment with your business goals.

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.

Business benefits

No. 1

Accelerates planning with a unified and accurate view of physical and virtual resources across multi-vendors and domains

No. 2

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

No. 3

Promotes network evolution to O-RAN while avoiding vendor lock-in via an open approach

No. 4

Increases business agility with multi-cloud orchestration

No. 5

Deploys easily in private/hybrid clouds or consumes 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.

Blue Planet combines advanced inventory,  orchestration, and assurance software  to provide a world-class zero-touch slice lifecycle automation solution end-to-end across complex multi-vendor and multi-cloud 5G networks. Our standards-based, vendor-agnostic, cloud-native solution helps you accelerate 5G ROI by enabling innovative on-demand slice-based services at scale, with lower OPEX.

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 Domain Control and Orchestration avoids vendor lock-in and facilitates evolution to O-RAN

No. 5

Converged automation solution reduces OPEX and permits operational excellence at scale

No. 6

Cloud-native solution can be easily deployed in private clouds or consumed in a SaaS model

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