Blue Planet

http://www.blueplanet.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/ciena-blue-planet/

Blue Planet, privately owned and headquartered in the US, is a division of Ciena. Founded in 2006, the company operates with approximately 500 employees and reported $115.5M in revenue as of 2025. It specializes in telecoms network infrastructure, providing intelligent automation software and specialized professional services to help clients modernize their IT and network operations.

2025 Revenue

Founded

2006

Headcount

500

Headquarters

United States

Primary Segment

Telecoms network infrastructure

Ownership

Privately Owned

Deployments

News Summary:

On September 10, 2026, Blue Planet received recognition as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Telecom Autonomous Network Operations Solutions 2026 Vendor Assessment, acknowledging its OSS capabilities across orchestration, assurance, and inventory. This recognition aligns with the company's focus on accelerating telecoms digital transformation through cloud-native, AI-enabled network automation solutions. Previously, on August 25, 2026, Blue Planet detailed its Service Order Management (SOM) solution, which automates the service order lifecycle for communications service providers (CSPs) by leveraging AI-driven automation, standardized APIs, and real-time order visibility on its Cloud Native Platform. Earlier, on August 15, 2026, the company highlighted its Multi-Domain Service Orchestration (MDSO), designed to automate end-to-end service activation across multi-vendor, multi-domain networks using intent-based, model-driven orchestration, also part of the Blue Planet Cloud Native Platform.

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Blue Planet offers 7 products in the telecoms tech industry. Blue Planet's product portfolio comprises of bSS/OSS and telecoms network infrastructure.

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Blue Planet's revenues were less than $250M in 2025. Caretta Research has split Blue Planet's revenue into 5 different product categories, the largest of which is telecoms network services and systems integration. For full access to Blue Planet's revenue breakdown subscribe to Caretta Portal.

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Sep

16th

2026

03:41

Events, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, Events and Conferences

FutureNet World 2026

Drive real business value with a trusted foundation for agentic AI-driven operations. Designed to transform OSS complexities into actionable intelligence, our unified, cloud-native platform unlocks greater efficiency, faster service delivery, and proactive assurance. Meet with Blue Planet experts and discuss how to deliver better experiences as you advance toward autonomous, intent-driven networks.

Blue Planet, a division of Ciena

Sep

10th

2026

20:59

Awards and Recognitions, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, Partnerships, Award Wins

IDC MarketScape 2026 telecom vendor assessment

Blue Planet has been recognized as a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Telecom Autonomous Network Operations Solutions 2026 Vendor Assessment. This IDC MarketScape considers vendors’ OSS capabilities across the orchestration, assurance, and inventory required to support telcos to achieve higher levels of network autonomy.

Blue Planet, a division of Ciena

Sep

9th

2026

20:57

Partnerships and Alliances, B2B Tag, Partnerships

From Service Order to Revenue Realization

This eBook examines how AI-driven service orchestration helps communications service providers modernize order-to-activation processes, reduce operational complexity, and accelerate service delivery. It explores intent-based orchestration, closed-loop automation, AI agents, and cloud-native OSS architectures that support autonomous network operations.

Blue Planet, a division of Ciena

Sep

1st

2026

10:45

B2B Tag

Blue Planet: service design and orchestration

Blue Planet is a cloud-native OSS vendor that differentiates itself through the convergence of inventory, orchestration and assurance applications on a common data platform. It focuses on accelerating telecoms digital transformation through cloud-native, AI-enabled network automation solutions.

Analysys Mason

Aug

25th

2026

01:00

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, New Offerings

Blue Planet Service Order Management data sheet

Blue Planet Service Order Management (SOM) automates the service order lifecycle, helping communications service providers (CSPs) reduce order fallout, improve order accuracy, and accelerate service delivery. Built on the Blue Planet Cloud Native Platform, SOM combines AI-driven automation, standardized APIs, dependency management, and real-time order visibility to streamline fulfillment, support complex services, and integrate with inventory, orchestration, and assurance for more efficient operations.

Blue Planet, a division of Ciena

Aug

15th

2026

01:00

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, New Offerings

Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orchestration

Blue Planet Multi-Domain Service Orchestration (MDSO) uses intent-based, model-driven orchestration to automate end-to-end service activation across multi-vendor, multi-domain networks. This data sheet explains how MDSO simplifies service delivery through declarative orchestration, service discovery, policy management, and scheduling as part of the Blue Planet Cloud Native Platform.

Blue Planet, a division of Ciena

Aug

7th

2026

03:34

New Offerings, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag, New Offerings

Context before control – Blue Planet maps AI architecture for autonomous networks

4 Blue Planet’s configuration management platform is only the starting point. As telcos pursue autonomous networks, the challenge is not simply deploying AI agents, but giving them the data, context and governance needed to make trusted decisions.

RCR Wireless News

Aug

6th

2026

20:53

New Offerings, New Offerings

Governed Change: The Missing Piece in Your Autonomous Network Strategy

As network change accelerates across increasingly automated environments, network operators face growing challenges in maintaining visibility, control, and trust in network state. This eBook explores the role of change governance in reducing configuration drift, improving compliance and auditability, and creating a foundation for reliable automation and autonomous operations.

Blue Planet, a division of Ciena

Jul

24th

2026

01:00

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Telefonica Deutschland and Blue Planet demonstrate how AI agents can accelerate 5G network slicing service design

T elefónica Deutschland and Blue Planet, a division of Ciena (NYSE: CIEN), have successfully completed a joint proof of concept (PoC) exploring the use of AI agents to accelerate the design and fulfillment of advanced 5G network slicing services.

Pipeline Magazine

Jul

21st

2026

05:57

New Offerings, B2B Tag, New Offerings

Blue Planet intros AI agents to fight OSS drift – and stand

3 Blue Planet’s new configuration management platform is puzzle-piece in the autonomous-networks jigsaw – which is also a part of the big telco story about reliability and trust. As telcos grow bolder in their chase of efficiency gains and developing roles in AI value chain, these reputational pillars have become the table stakes.

RCR Wireless News

Jul

16th

2026

04:44

Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Smart networks, dumb outcomes? Why OSS needs to evolve

Contributed by Gabriele Di Piazza, Vice President, Product Management, Alliances and Architectures, Blue Planet. At a busy airport, planes can fly themselves with amazing precision. But without air traffic control keeping everything organized, things would fall apart fast.

FutureNet World

Jun

24th

2026

09:50

Partnerships and Alliances, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Tag

Telefónica Deutschland and Blue Planet Demonstrate How AI agents Can Accelerate 5G Network slicing Service Design

Telefónica Deutschland and Blue Planet, a division of Ciena, have successfully completed a joint proof of concept (PoC) exploring the use of AI agents to accelerate the design and fulfillment of advanced 5G network slicing services.

Microwave Journal

Blue Planet's customers primarily consist of telecoms companies. Examples of Blue Planet's customers include Telstra, Telefonica and Orange Group. Blue Planet has commercial and technical partners like CenturyLink, Tech Mahindra and PLDT.

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