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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.
“Today’s consumers and businesses increasingly require not just connectivity but highly personalized experiences. By deploying Blue Planet, we can better focus on building an innovative and forward-looking technology infrastructure to leapfrog the competition.”
- Nathan Bell, Chief Digital Officer, M1
“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
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