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About Blue Planet

Harness the power of Blue Planet OSS to drive business growth

AI-driven network operations for today’s complex digital ecosystem

As a division of Ciena, the global leader in high-speed connectivity, Blue Planet combines OSS expertise with more than three decades of networking innovation to maximize business value. Our OSS development is backed by a deep understanding of networks and customer deployments. It is built on three key elements: a cloud-native platform, open AI-driven architecture, and productization. The result is a comprehensive approach to digital transformation.

Blue Planet Cloud Native Platform

Maximize your operational impact. Incrementally roll out capabilities with our modular architecture, and drive intelligent, agentic AI automation across every vendor and domain with a unified data model that provides trusted end-to-end visibility.

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Open AI-driven architecture

Accelerate time to market with our product-first, DevOps approach. With its open, standards-based architecture, you can rapidly adopt innovations like agentic and generative AI (GenAI), including bring-your-own-AI models. Your OSS can continually adapt to deliver greater flexibility, faster innovation, and sustained business agility.

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Productized and proven

Avoid costly custom builds and rigid legacy systems. With Blue Planet’s software-centric design and continual innovation, you’ll have immediate access to new capabilities without expensive change requests, while prebuilt workflows streamline third-party integrations and simplify day-to-day operations for faster, lower-effort transformation.

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Harness the power of Blue Planet OSS to drive business growth

Backed by a team active in both industry standards bodies and the open source community, we’re committed to an open, multi-vendor approach so you have the freedom to choose what’s best for your business.

With a full-stack, cloud-native OSS, Blue Planet delivers the real-time visibility, data integrity, and AI-driven automation needed to more efficiently operate and accelerate the shift to autonomous networking.

Meaningful results driven by proven OSS transformation

The Blue Planet Intelligent Automation Portfolio is engineered to drive measurable impact—reducing operational complexity, accelerating service delivery, and unlocking new business models. Every deployment reflects a deep commitment to customer outcomes. Backed by cloud-native software and agentic AI, we have a proven track record of transforming multi-vendor, multi-domain environments into high-performing, autonomous operations.

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Experience the Blue Planet difference

No. 1

Cloud-native approach

Cloud native from the ground up, Blue Planet delivers scalable, resilient OSS automation across public and private cloud and software as a service (SaaS) environments.

No. 2

Culture of openness

Built on open standards like TM Forum and 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP), Blue Planet accelerates integration and innovation with a flexible, vendor-agnostic architecture.

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Strategy for unified data foundations

Blue Planet unifies and federates multi-domain, multi-vendor network data into a trusted source of truth that powers automation and AI.

No. 4

Flexible productized software over customized deployments

Productized, configuration-driven software minimizes customization, reduces deployment complexity, and accelerates time to value.

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AI-driven solutions for AI-friendly operations

Blue Planet combines ML, GenAI, and agentic AI to deliver intelligent automation and create a scalable foundation for high-impact AI use cases.

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Robust systems innovation ecosystem

A global network of certified experts and professional services enables fast deployment, DevOps-ready operations, and long-term modernization success.

Dedication to sustainability

We promote sustainable networks by helping retire unused assets and steer traffic to more energy-efficient infrastructure, reducing waste and overall power consumption.

Vision for AI-driven network operations

Blue Planet drives more agile business models with AI-powered, cross‑domain OSS transformation.

Blue Planet products and solutions

Blue Planet Cloud Native Platform

Scale operations with a cloud-native foundation and develop, deploy, and evolve automation and assurance applications with greater agility and lower costs.

Blue Planet Inventory

Improve data accuracy with a federated, real-time view of network, service, and resource inventory to empower automation, assurance, and optimization.

Blue Planet Orchestration

Accelerate service delivery with end-to-end automation across multi-vendor and multi-domain networks to reduce manual operations and ensure consistent outcomes.

Blue Planet Unified Assurance and Analytics

Enable proactive automation and enhanced visibility and control for a customer-focused network with end-to-end service assurance.

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