Blue Planet: Your comprehensive guide to autonomous networks
Gabriele Di Piazza explains how Blue Planet’s AI-powered automation solutions are driving Communications Service Providers (CSPs) toward fully autonomous networks and a new era of connectivity.
In the future of communications, autonomous networks will be the driving force behind innovation and growth for Communications Service Providers (CSPs). These networks promise to streamline operations, improve agility, and deliver a seamless customer experience. But how do CSPs get there? That’s where Blue Planet comes in. Far more than just an orchestration or inventory vendor, Blue Planet provides the AI-driven automation solutions CSPs need to modernize their operations and build the foundation for fully autonomous networks.
Blue Planet isn't a run-of-the-mill OSS solution though.
Enabling operational autonomy by employing agentic AI, Blue Planet helps CSPs steer their networks based on operational intent – business intent, service intent, and resource intent. This approach empowers holistic autonomy across multiple domains, ensuring seamless and intelligent operations. With its open, standards-based framework, Blue Planet unifies and structures multi-vendor data, providing Communications Service Providers (CSPs) with unparalleled visibility, intelligence, and control they need to optimize their processes and deliver modern, on-demand services with agility and precision.
Figure 1. Enabling holistic network autonomy with agentic AI
Why CSPs need a new approach
CSPs face mounting pressure to deliver innovative new services on demand. However, they are constrained by highly customized and siloed legacy systems. The key challenges include:
- Lack of cross-domain visibility, hindering effective planning and resource allocation
- Manual, error-prone processes leading to order fall-out and slow time to market
- Reactive troubleshooting and resolution resulting in diminished customer experiences
- Lack of unified data models, yielding challenges in empowering Agentic AI
Figure 2. Intent-based networking across the service lifecycle
Blue Planet addresses these challenges with a solution portfolio that combines breadth and depth, accelerating the journey toward autonomous networks.
Blue Planet impacts trajectory
Global CSPs are turning to Blue Planet to accelerate their digital transformation and transition to autonomous networks—and for good reason. Unlike competitors, Blue Planet stands out as the industry’s first true cloud-native platform that converges inventory, orchestration and assurance capabilities on a single platform, providing our customers with the flexibility and scalability they require to future-proof their business. Our multi-domain approach seamlessly spans all domains and vendors, lowering integration tax.
By combining innovation with unparalleled interoperability, Blue Planet consistently reduces design, provisioning and activation times by up to 80% or more, so it’s no surprise we’ve become a trusted leader in enabling intelligent, agile, and efficient networks.
Automating the service management lifecycle: Blue Planet’s capabilities in action
One of the key goals of autonomous operations is to streamline service lifecycle processes. Let’s explore modern service delivery with Blue Planet, breaking it down phase by phase to see how our solutions optimize every step from planning to retirement.
Figure 3. Blue Planet’s Intelligent Automation Portfolio
Plan to build
The lifecycle starts with understanding customer needs and planning for efficient service delivery. Using Blue Planet’s intelligent Service Order Management, customer requirements are captured and translated into actionable plans. During this phase, Blue Planet Inventory provides real-time resource visibility by unifying fragmented systems and reconciling data to enable informed decisions and create resource-efficient strategies that align with customer expectations.
Order to service
Next, the service moves to the design phase, where Blue Planet leverages advanced modeling and inventory tools to craft optimal blueprints. Blue Planet’s Orchestration suite automates the service provisioning and activation processes, eliminating costs and delays associated with fragmented workflows, inconsistent activation procedures, and human error. Once the service order is decomposed, Multi-Domain Service Orchestration executes model-driven abstraction and intent-based orchestration to automate service activation across networks and domains, allowing for automated, scalable designs focused on efficiency and customer satisfaction.
Trouble to resolve
Once the service has been instantiated, Blue Planet helps CSPs meet SLAs for their customers through AI-powered Unified Assurance and Analytics. AI-powered tools monitor performance, proactively identify potential issues, and resolve them before they affect customers. Route Optimization and Analysis ensures consistent network performance, enables “what if” scenario forecasting and supports digital twin use cases.
Comprehensive lifecycle management
Throughout its lifecycle, Blue Planet’s AI Studio revolutionizes every phase of operations with AI-driven automation, streamlining processes, continually improving accuracy, and enhancing customer satisfaction. AI Studio acts with strategic intent and reasoning to simplify network operations, reach resolutions and get to market faster. It provides an intuitive environment to build, test, and deploy AI agents, enabling businesses to create tailored solutions that address specific challenges. By reducing costs and delivering exceptional service experiences, AI Studio empowers organizations to unlock the full potential of AI at every stage.
By combining AI agents with tools like 5G Network Slicing, Blue Planet ensures optimized network usage, advanced capabilities, and maximum resource efficiency.
The breadth to empower
The transition from legacy OSS environments to one that enables the evolution of AIOps, and autonomous networks marks a pivotal transformation for CSPs striving to succeed in today’s competitive digital economy. Blue Planet’s AI-driven capabilities, coupled with deep telecom expertise, are key to enabling this transition. By embracing AI, automation, and autonomous networks, CSPs can meet these challenges head-on, setting the stage for long-term success in the customer-first world.
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