As the market for communications services continues to evolve and intensify, communication service providers (CSPs) are under pressure to transform. Shortening innovation cycles and delivering new digital services that monetize their investments in technologies like 5G is no longer optional—it can mean the difference between thriving or becoming obsolete.
Blue Planet is on a mission to help CSPs accelerate their transformation to become software-driven, digital businesses. How? By providing the industry’s first OSS platform that converges design, delivery, and assurance applications for networks and services. The Blue Planet Intelligent Automation Portfolio provides a future-proof solution that uniquely helps CSPs optimize and automate their operations and streamline the introduction of new services across any network domain or vendor, without creating costly and inefficient operational silos. Whether they are introducing a new service or replacing a legacy system, Blue Planet’s proven—and productized—platform provides CSPs with a sustainable approach for OSS modernization that avoids extensive customizations, giving them the flexibility they need to thrive in a rapidly shifting market.
Blue Planet has played a critical part in the automation initiatives for some of the largest and most sophisticated CSPs worldwide, such as Deutsche Telekom, Dish Wireless, and BT Group. And as a division of Ciena, we bring unrivaled expertise across network, cloud, and software to help our customers accelerate their digital transformation.
OPENSOURCE AND STANDARDS AFFILIATIONS
Our team is active in both industry standards-bodies and the Opensource community.
Metro Ethernet Forum
The MEF is an industry consortium of more than 150 members dedicated to developing technical specifications and implementation agreements to accelerate adoption of Carrier Ethernet.
Open Networking Foundation
The Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is a nonprofit organization committed to bringing programmability to networks and accelerating the delivery and use of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) standards.
Tm Forum
TM Forum is a global trade association trusted by the world’s largest enterprises, service providers, and suppliers to help them continuously transform to succeed in the digital economy.
Internet Engineering Task Force
The mission of the IETF is to make the Internet work better by producing high quality, relevant technical documents that influence the way people design, use, and manage the Internet.
European Telecommunications Standards Institute
ETSI produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, aeronautical, broadcast, and internet technologies and is officially recognized by the European Union as a European Standards Organization.
ONAP
ONAP, or the Open Networking Automation Platform, is an open source networking project hosted by the Linux Foundation. ONAP was announced is the result of a merger of the OpenECOMP and Open-Orchestrator (Open-O) projects. The goal of the project is to develop a widely used platform for orchestrating and automating physical and virtual network elements, with full lifecycle management.