[October 13, 2015] |
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Ciena Delivers Self-Service Programmability and Reduces Vendor Lock-in with New Blue Planet Architecture
Ciena®
(NYSE: CIEN) unveiled key enhancements to its Blue
Planet network orchestration software designed to help operators
expand and accelerate the delivery of new services across both virtual
and physical domains. Available today, the enhancements enable service
providers to accelerate their transformation from closed and siloed
network architectures to more open, on-demand software-driven networks.
Key Facts:
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Ciena's Blue Planet division is leading the industry into a new era of
truly open, software-defined, multi-vendor networks. Blue Planet
software helps service providers automate services - from creation to
orchestration to delivery - across both physical and virtual domains.
This reduces operational costs, eliminates network complexity and
drives greater competitive advantage through a level of service
programmability previously unachievable.
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Blue Planet software advances Ciena's OPn® network
architecture approach and delivers a number of critical benefits to
service providers, which include:
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Rapid Customization and Agile (News - Alert) Development: New
container-based, micro-services architecture allows rapid
customization and accelerated development of new applications,
including those from third-parties and based on open-source. Blue
Planet loosely couples software functions within these containers
to create and enable SDN Management and Control, NFV
Orchestration, and Multi-Domain Service Orchestration. The new
architecture also enables disaggregation of the software stack,
enabling providers to add their own services.
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Self-Service Programmability: New TOSCA-based service
templates equip providers with 'DevOps' style self-service
programmability of resources (physical, virtual, or cross-domain)
for creating, deploying, or enhancing services. This reduces
professional services fees typically required by OSS or
integration vendors.
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Simplified Integration with Legacy Systems: Support for business
process model and notation (BPMN) standard simplifies integration
with legacy OSS/BSS systems and simplifies providers' ability to
create, integrate and operate new services. BPMN reduces network
complexity and improves the ability to offer programmable,
self-service tools to end-users.
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Freedom to Choose: Blue Planet supports non-Ciena domains
(e.g. access, metro, core, cloud) to deliver end-to-end service
orchestration. This enables providers to select and deploy
best-of-breed options at each domain without losing operational
simplicity and abstraction. It also reduces vendor lock-in and
ensures simple, low-cost operations across multi-vendor physical
or virual functions and domains.
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Open and Standards-based: Blue Planet incorporates
more than 15 standards or open source code bases (including
Docker, LINUX, TOSCA, BPMN, Netconf/YANG, etc). Additionally, open
APIs expose critical data to northbound platforms.
Executive Comments:
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"Ciena's Blue Planet division is delivering innovation in the network
virtualization and service orchestration space. Their movement toward
micro-services architectures and containers is in tune with leading
network operators, who expect that these compelling technologies will
help them to transform, virtualize, and differentiate."
- Michael
Howard, Senior Research Director, IHS-Infonetics (News - Alert)
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"More than a year ago, Ciena's Blue Planet division (formerly Cyan),
embarked on a journey to break down the software silos that are
prevalent in the vendor community. Now, we're poised to bring together
SDN, NFV and service orchestration into a unified, open platform that
enables service providers to leverage these cutting-edge technologies
for building virtualized on-demand networks and cloud-based service
offerings."
- Mike
Hatfield, Senior Vice President & General Manager, Blue Planet, Ciena
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"We are beginning to see what innovation is truly possible with Blue
Planet. One thing is clear - Blue Planet is disruptive and serves as
an agent for transforming the network as we have known it. We look
forward to continuing to work with our customers and driving new
virtualized on-demand services into the marketplace."
- Francois
Locoh-Donou, Senior Vice President, Global Products Group, Ciena
Events:
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These enhancements were unveiled at the SDN
& OpenFlow World Congress, taking place this week in
Düsseldorf, Germany.
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October 22 at 11 a.m. ET, Ciena will host a webinar, "Blue Planet -
The Transformation of Your Network Starts with Software." The
webinar will feature Steve Alexander, Sr. VP & Chief Technology
Officer, Ciena and Kevin Sheehan, Vice President, Global Operations,
Blue Planet, Ciena. Click here
to register.
Supporting Resources:
About Ciena
Ciena (NYSE: CIEN) is the network specialist. We collaborate with
customers worldwide to unlock the strategic potential of their networks
and fundamentally change the way they perform and compete. Ciena
leverages its deep expertise in packet and optical networking and
distributed software automation to deliver solutions in alignment with
its OPn architecture for next-generation networks. We enable
a high-scale, programmable infrastructure that can be controlled and
adapted by network-level applications, and provide open interfaces to
coordinate computing, storage and network resources in a unified,
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