Cloud-native OSS: the time is now
In order to capture new markets and revenue, increase operational efficiency, and achieve their business goals, communications service providers (CSPs) must break free of the limitations imposed by outdated operations support systems (OSS).
Adding services to these closed systems—which are built on outdated software architectures—requires expensive vendor-lead development and integration while also creating new operational silos. Legacy OSS also rely on manual intervention for end-to-end service design, activation, and assurance, which increases OPEX, limits scale, and prevents CSPs from offering high-value on-demand services.
Instead, CSPs need a modern, automated and cloud-native approach to OSS to efficiently manage services end-to-end across today’s highly complex and dynamic networks. Cloud-native architectures use advanced technology to provide a highly resilient, manageable, and observable foundation for services, and they can be easily enhanced and rapidly updated to help CSPs stay ahead of evolving market demands.
Blue Planet Cloud Native Platform
The Blue Planet Cloud Native Platform (CNP) converges modular inventory, orchestration, and assurance applications into a single Kubernetes-based cloud-native platform to help CSPs streamline new service introductions, accelerate service fulfilment and monetization, and achieve truly transformative service and business agility.
The platform provides a powerful, reliable, and thoroughly modern OSS solution that is ideally suited for increasingly dynamic, complex, and ‘cloudified’ networks and services, and features an advanced Kubernetes implementation that enables auto-scaling for maximum resource efficiency, performance, and resiliency.
By converging inventory, orchestration, and assurance applications into a single cloud-native platform, Blue Planet helps CSPs avoid vendor sprawl—and a related integration penalty. This unified approach also improves the user experience by integrating data from multiple sources into a single standardized format to enable a common understanding of data entities, attributes, and relationships—as well as consistent screens views—across IT, network operations, and other CSP teams.
The Blue Planet CNP accelerates OSS innovation. delivered in a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline that facilitates rapid feature introduction, iteration, and update. We also provide an integrated development environment (IDE) that gives CSPs and systems integrators (SIs) a no/low code graphical design and development tool to simplify the creation of new service templates, resource adapters (RAs), and business process model and notation (BPMN) workflows. And our AI Studio allows CSPs to integrate and maintain advanced AI/ML models—including pre-built Blue Planet models, their own models, and third-party models—in their live production environments.
CSPs can utilize Blue Planet in complete alignment with their technical needs and business objectives. CSPs can consume Blue Planet from the public cloud in an elastic software as a service (SaaS) model, or they can opt to deploy it in private and public clouds, with complete feature consistency. Portability between any Kubernetes-based cloud—including AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform—maximizes business agility and helps CSPs avoid vendor lock-in.
The Blue Planet CNP is backed by our Blue Planet Cloud Native Operations Service, which includes annual in-service software upgrades (ISSU); management of the Kubernetes cluster hosting Blue Planet; proactive application monitoring that lets us identify and resolve issues before they become critical; as well as security scans and patches. This keeps customers up to date with the latest Blue Planet features and ensures high system and software security, scalability, and availability.
Blue Planet Cloud Native Platform benefits
Business agility
Blue Planet can be utilized in a SaaS model, or deployed in private and public clouds with complete feature consistency, which maximizes business agility and helps avoid vendor lock-in.
Operational excellence
Pro-active monitoring capabilities, ISSU, and K8s cluster management ensures optimal system performance, availability, and security.
Efficiency and sustainability
Dynamic resource allocation and auto-scaling based on actual demand ensures efficient scale up and scale down that contributes to lower TCO, increased ROI, and improved sustainability.
Easy Innovation
Our CI/CD pipeline, IDE and AI Studio facilitate continuous innovation, rapid feature introduction, ongoing enhancements, and simple customization to help you drive growth.