Software-centric agility to unlock network potential
The Blue Planet Intelligent Automation Platform lets network providers use deep knowledge about the network to power adaptive service and network optimization. Blue Planet facilitates the evolution to more efficient, modernized network operations and software-defined programmability by bringing together Network and IT teams to effectively fulfill, manage, and assure today’s dynamic, on-demand services.

Achieve business agility and
accelerate service velocity by
abstracting network complexity and driving intelligent and automated network operations

Improve operational effectiveness
continually through end-to-end
network and resource visibility,
advanced network analytics, and
policy-guided actions

Elevate the customer experience
by rapidly developing innovative
services to meet fast-changing
demands

Blue Planet is a comprehensive software suite combining orchestration, advanced analytics, inventory, and network service assurance in a common architecture. It provides the extensibility and openness needed to power the digital age.

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IDC sees the live demo of mobile video delivery across multi-access edge computing (MEC) at Ciena’s booth at MWC as particularly significant, considering it provided a simple and elegant illustration of how mobile VNF, virtualized content delivery network (vCDN), public/private cloud, and purpose-built network function virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) software could be brought together to deliver on-demand automated low-latency video services (such as those in AR/VR) over a combination of distributed edge and cloud infrastructure.

It also highlighted the importance of the orchestration and automation of a multivendor, multicloud solution in the delivery of potentially new carrier revenue streams in the 5G era.

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Service providers are under pressure to launch more dynamic, on-demand services to keep pace with the competition from both traditional providers and Web-scale content players.

At the same time, end-customers have increasingly high expectations for their Quality of Experience (QoE) —they demand the services they want, when they want them, with flawless performance.

As a result, service providers are now under pressure to provide a range of service offerings with fast time to market and exceptional quality and performance, all at the lowest possible price and cost. But this is no small feat. Service providers are becoming distanced from their customers, who are devaluing the connectivity itself and rather attributing value to wireless handsets, applications, content providers, media-rich solutions, and cloud providers. This is driving the need to create value in a new digitally transformed manner more so than ever before.

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• Develop new, and enhance existing revenue streams
  
• Innovate with new, exciting services that go beyond commodity connectivity
  
• Engender increased automation of operational processes
  
• Reduce network OPEX
  
• Enable the use of commodity hardware and lower CAPEX.

Existing operational practice, often bound up in traditional OSS such as inventory systems, can be seen as an obstacle to these opportunities and these systems are sometimes considered as non-essential to future software-based networks.

In this paper, we consider the importance of inventory’s role today, and what that role will become tomorrow — assessing where inventory will remain relevant in its current form and where it will need to change to support an increasingly dynamic network.

We will then look at the evolutionary steps CSPs can take once today’s inventory becomes too passive, manually intensive and reactive for services comprised of truly dynamic and changeable resources.

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