Bill Kaufmann

Director, Product Management, Network Assurance and Analytics

Bill Kaufmann

Director, Product Management, Network Assurance and Analytics

Bill Kaufmann is Director of Product Management for Network Assurance and Analytics at Ciena. In this role, Bill manages the Blue Planet assurance portfolio, including the Route Optimization and Analysis (ROA) and Unified Assurance and Analytics (UAA) products. Bill began his telecom career at AT&T in Technical Sales and Marketing. He has held leadership roles in product management at Tellabs, Coriant, and Blue Planet in the areas of IP/MPLS Routing, SDN Orchestration, and Network Analytics.

Insights from Bill Kaufmann

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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 –

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AI-based automated assurance is a 5G necessity

In a 5G world, automation is mandatory because it is impossible for CSPs to meet customer requirements for dynamic ultra-low latency and high availability services using manual provisioning and management processes. CSPs need assurance solutions

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Multi-Layer Networking: Unifying IP and optical network management

Bill Kaufmann details how Blue Planet's Multi-Layer Networking collects and processes routing paths, traffic flows, and performance metrics from the IP layer, and correlates it with underlying optical paths to provide actionable intelligence for