Simplify, automate,
and accelerate
new services

Vodafone’s next-generation connectivity and digital services will enable an inclusive and sustainable digital society across Europe and Africa. To further this vision, this resource page speaks to the need for a dynamic inventory view and provides ways to enable automation and real-time visibility. To save time, we’ve highlighted why each is relevant to you.

Simplify, automate and accelerate new services

Vodafone’s next-generation connectivity and digital services will enable an inclusive and sustainable digital society across Europe and Africa. To further this vision, this resource page speaks to the need for a dynamic inventory view and provides ways to enable automation and real-time visibility. To save time, we’ve highlighted why each is relevant to you.

Building a foundation for automation

TELCO TITANS ARTICLE
Blue Planet: Re-making telcos as platform heros

A novel approach to systems architecture enables a material shift away from legacy system silo limitations – accelerating new service development and deployment.

Why it matters to Vodafone

Get a pragmatic framework to provide a federated view of “spaghetti systems,” which serves as the foundation for self-healing automated networks.

TELCO TITANS ARTICLE
Blue Planet: Re-making telcos as platform heros

A novel approach to systems architecture enables a material shift away from legacy system silo limitations — accelerating new service development and deployment.

Why it matters to Vodafone

Get a pragmatic framework to provide a federated view of “spaghetti systems” which serves as the foundation for self-healing automated networks.

Federate and deliver a dynamic inventory

CALCULATOR
Dynamic Inventory Value Calculator

Input four data points to calculate the potential savings to Vodafone from a federated inventory foundation with powerful auto discovery – using industry-average data.

Why it matters to Vodafone

Quickly quantify the potential value that accelerated planning and deployment can bring Vodafone to help inform your strategy.

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How to Modernize Your Legacy Inventory Systems

Learn the proven benefits of migrating from a legacy inventory system (illustrated on p.4) and get a blueprint for operational transformation (summarized on p.3).

Why it matters to Vodafone

A phased modernization approach allows Vodafone to accelerate the benefits of a dynamic inventory platform and lowers the risks inherent in a large transformation program.

CALCULATOR
Dynamic Inventory Value Calculator

Input four data points to calculate the potential savings to Vodafone from a federated inventory foundation with powerful auto discovery – using industry-average data.

Why it matters to Vodafone

Quickly quantify the potential value that accelerated planning and deployment can bring Vodafone to help inform your strategy.

EBOOK
How to Modernize Your Legacy Inventory Systems

Learn the proven benefits of migrating from a legacy inventory system (illustrated on p.4) and get a blueprint for operational transformation (summarized on p.3).

Why it matters to Vodafone

A phased modernization approach allows Vodafone accelerate the benefits of a dynamic inventory platform and lowers the risks inherent in a large transformation program.

Build powerful automation through orchestration

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Your Roadmap for Smarter, Faster 5G Monetization: How intelligent automation accelerates the evolution to network slicing

Network slicing is key to monetizing a 5G network by delivering greater capacity, ultra-reliable low latency, and/or massive IoT. Simplification through visibility and automation are keys to success. P. 9. provides a practical framework Vodafone can use as a starting point.

Why it matters to Vodafone

Open, modular automation can help accelerate the journey as Vodafone moves forward with plans to productize offerings that leverage network slicing.

4 MINUTE VIDEO
Driving automation of 5G planning and deployment

The challenge: You can’t automate what you can’t see.

The solution: Federated inventory with powerful auto-discovery to accelerate planning and deployment.

 

 

 

Why it matters to Vodafone

Building a “single source of truth” for your 5G network and next gen service deployments accelerates automation by enabling automated orchestration and configuration.

SOLUTION BRIEF
Blue Planet 5G Automation Solution Brief

A vendor-agnostic approach to automating the design, creation, modification, and assurance of standards-based 5G network slices.

 

 



 

Why it matters to Vodafone

See how abstracting a complex multi-vendor, multi-domain environment through a single productized 5G Network Slicing solution can deliver zero-touch end-to-end network slice lifecycle automation.

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Your Roadmap for Smarter, Faster 5G Monetization: How intelligent automation accelerates the evolution to network slicing

Network slicing is key to monetizing 5G network by delivering greater capacity, ultra-reliable low latency and/or massive IoT. Simplification through visibility and automation are keys to success. P. 9. provides a practical framework Vodafone can use as a starting point.

Why it matters to Vodafone

As Vodafone moves forward with plans to productize offerings that leverage network slicing, open, modular automation can help accelerate the journey.

4 MINUTE VIDEO
Driving automation of 5G planning and deployment

The challenge: You can’t automate what you can’t see.

The solution: Federated inventory with powerful auto-discovery to accelerate planning and deployment.

Why it matters to Vodafone

Building a “single source of truth” for your 5G network and next gen service deployments accelerates automation by enabling automated orchestration and configuration.

SOLUTION BRIEF
Blue Planet 5G Automation Solution Brief

A vendor-agnostic approach to automating the design, creation, modification, and assurance of standards-based 5G network slices.

Why it matters to Vodafone

A vendor-agnostic approach to automating the design, creation, modification, and assurance of standards-based 5G network slices.

Meet the team

Effrosyni Paza

Director, Vodafone Account

Vivek Kumar Srivastava

Vivek Kumar Srivastava

Customer Success Executive, Vodafone Account

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David Fitzgerald

David Fitzgerald

Solution Architect, Vodafone Account

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Why walk when you can run?

Vodafone has ambitious goals. Deploying AI, automation, 5G acceleration, and monetizing points of presence on the edge.

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Blue Planet provides proven software solutions that accelerate digital transformation through intelligent automation. With more than 200 deployments worldwide, our modular, vendor-agnostic product portfolio enables real-time visibility and control to manage changing network operating environments. Backed by a global team of delivery specialists and an ecosystem of partners, Blue Planet is a division of Ciena that combines expertise across IT, network, and business operations to enable the agility necessary for creating differentiated end-customer experiences.

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