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4 reasons why the time is now to modernize assurance

Appledore Research’s Robert Curran details four reasons why service assurance is at the inflection point for modernization in communication service providers’ (CSPs) network operations.

The growing role of Artificial Intelligence in telecom operations

The role of AI in telecom operations is growing, which is fueling the need for operators to future-proof their networks to support the adoption of current and emerging AI models. Peter Briscoe, Vice President of Solution Architecture & Pre-Sales at Blue Planet explains.

Accelerating sustainability through network automation

How is network automation helping operators meet their sustainability targets? Miriam Sabapathy, Consultant at STL Partners, explains with findings from a recently published report and takeaways from a recent webinar featuring Balaji Subramaniam, Director of Product Line Management at Blue Planet, and panelists from CityFibre and Orange.

Change your OSS mindset: Introducing Blue Planet's Cloud Native Platform

Kailem Anderson explains how Blue Planet’s Cloud Native Platform can turn your OSS into a key competitive advantage to drive business growth.

Collaborate to innovate: A blueprint for OSS modernization

Joe Cumello, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Blue Planet details why a change in mindset between CSPs and suppliers is required to make OSS modernization a reality.

Blue Planet blazes the trail to 5G monetization and sustainability

With MWC Barcelona right around the corner, Blue Planet’s Kevin Wade previews a few ‘must see’ demonstrations that showcase how automation can help operators achieve their business goals by overcoming RAN complexity, improving sustainability, and accelerating 5G ROI.

5 ways modern routing, traffic, and performance analytics can help mitigate major outages

Blue Planet’s Derrick Mealiffe explains how modern routing, traffic, and performance analytics tools are enhancing network resilience, helping to prevent and mitigate the potentially devastating effects of major network outages.

Unlocking Network Optimization with Blue Planet ROA as a Centralized PCE

Blue Planet’s Derrick Mealiffe explains the benefits of a centralized Path Computation Element (PCE) approach and how operators can leverage Blue Planet Route Optimization and Analysis (ROA) as a centralized PCE to unlock network optimization and future-proof their networks.

The proof is in the PoC: How Blue Planet powered Capgemini's 5G network slicing proof of concept

Network slicing is the final step of the 5G journey for many Communications Service Providers (CSPs), letting them monetize their networks with innovative new services and accelerate the return on their significant investments. But operational complexity can get in the way. Kevin Wade, Blue Planet's Senior Director and Product Marketing Team Leader, explains how the Blue Planet converged intelligent automation platform – a key element of Capgemini’s ground-breaking 5G end-to-end network slicing proof of concept (PoC) – overcomes 5G complexity to help CSPs achieve their business goals.

How to quickly mitigate BGP security risks with route analytics

Customers demand 100 percent uptime and bulletproof network security. In this use case from a large mobile network operator, learn how service providers can mitigate BGP security risks with Blue Planet Route Optimization and Analysis.

Network lifecycle automation: Overcoming 5G complexity for scale and profitability

5G promises new and innovative digital experiences for consumers and enterprises alike, but building and maintaining service-ready 5G networks is proving too slow and expensive for many network operators. Balaji Subramanian, Senior Director of Product Line Management at Blue Planet, explains how network lifecycle automation is helping forward-looking Communications Service Providers (CSPs) break free from the constraints of legacy approaches to operations and achieve their business goals.

It takes a village to monetize the dynamic 5G edge

Blue Planet and MATRIXX Software have teamed up to provide a game-changing solution for 5G monetization. Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson explains how combining intelligent automation, real-time monetization, and open standards empowers Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to deliver self-service, high-quality experiences for customers while generating a return on their investment in 5G technology.

Evaluating how your network operations stack up: 3 steps to driving efficient operations with dynamic inventory

How efficient are your operations in supporting the delivery of new dynamic services like 5G, network slicing, edge cloud, and next-gen residential broadband? I’m excited to introduce Blue Planet’s new Dynamic Inventory Value Calculator which helps CSPs quantify the potential business value of dynamic inventory to their business in three simple steps.

Taking a software-driven approach to sustainability

Blue Planet’s Kevin Wade details key software advancements that are helping Communication Service Providers reach their sustainability targets, and how one specific intelligent automation use case allows network operators to directly address their energy consumption challenges.

Dynamic inventory lays the foundation for 5G

For CSPs, turning their 5G vision into reality is dependent on fast and profitable service delivery. Achieving this demands an accurate inventory of all their physical and cloud-based resources distributed across multiple domains.Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson details the importance of dynamic inventory management, and how one major CSP is already implementing this approach in their 5G network today.

Analyst Insights: Understanding the key factors for 5G success

Appledore Research’s Francis Haysom details the analyst group's Telco as a Platform (TaaP) research and the six investment needs it identified for platform-based digital transformation, enabling CSPs to overcome the three critical scaling issues for new 5G innovation.

Temporal Observability brings new insights for 5G

The viability of future 5G services hinges on the ability to activate, monitor, and assure thousands of network slices in real-time. Blue Planet’s Bill Kaufmann details how a new kind of network monitoring – Temporal Observability – provides the foundation upon which dynamic 5G network slices can be built.

Network inventory of the future: delivering the competitive advantage you need

Many network operators know their current network inventory solutions simply don’t support most modern, sophisticated services use-cases. Ryan Jeffery, Director at Passionate About OSS, predicts that a renewed interest in next-gen active inventory has us on the cusp of a revolution in data visualisation that will bring a wide range of benefits.

Blue Planet gives DISH a ‘Dynamic Whiteboard’ to visualize its automated 5G network

As DISH Wireless builds out a first-of-its-kind 5G network across the U.S., it’s leveraging a cutting-edge, standards-based intelligent automation platform with the flexibility to support tens of thousands of dynamic network slices. Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson digs into the details.

Automation Paves the Way to 5G Network Slicing

While automation is important to every stage of the 5G journey, the complexity of end-to-end network slicing makes automation essential. Monica Paolini, Principal at Senza Fili, looks at how automation tames the complexity of 5G network slicing, and shares her expertise to help you select the best automation approach.

5G network slicing: Thinking beyond the RAN

5G network slicing is often discussed in the narrow context of optimizing RAN performance. In this blog, Monica Paolini, Principal at Senza Fili, takes a broader view of network slicing as a way to fundamentally transform how CSPs manage and provision traffic and services end-to-end.

The road to 5G network slicing begins with automation

This year is pivotal for 5G. Mobile operators will continue to deploy 5G network globally and are increasingly investing in standalone 5G, which will help enable network slicing at scale. But getting there is a journey that requires intelligent automation every step of the way - from network planning through implementation.Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson outlines how Blue Planet’s new 5G Automation solution provides operators with an open-standard based path on their journey to 5G giving them the ability to quickly build a scalable and agile multi-vendor 5G network.

Blue Orbit Partner Spotlight: Capgemini tackles radical network transformation

In our Blue Orbit Partner Spotlight blogs series, we highlight innovative solutions from Blue Planet’s partner ecosystem and discuss the market trends that are driving them. In this latest installment of the series, we feature Capgemini.

Our Blue Orbit Ecosystem expands with addition of AWS and Azure

New technology alliances with major global cloud providers are elevating our ecosystem and accelerating customers’ Digital Transformation. Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson provides the details.

Looking to automate your operations? Modernizing network inventory is the best place to start.

Bringing AI options to AIOps

Without cloud-native automation, you can’t ‘AI’ what you can’t see

Looking to transform your network and service operations with AI? Let our experts guide you.

The role of modern network inventory management in infrastructure security compliance