{"id":14433,"date":"2017-01-26T07:23:26","date_gmt":"2017-01-26T07:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/?p=14433"},"modified":"2017-01-26T07:23:26","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T07:23:26","slug":"ciena-adds-network-health-predictor-analytics-to-blue-planet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2017\/01\/26\/ciena-adds-network-health-predictor-analytics-to-blue-planet\/","title":{"rendered":"Ciena adds &#8216;Network Health Predictor&#8217; analytics to Blue Planet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the newest capability in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciena.com\/?src=pr\">Ciena<\/a>\u2019s\u00a0Blue Planet portfolio, Blue Planet Analytics generates network insights through big data to help network operators make smarter, data-driven business decisions. As part of the overall strategy to enable fully autonomous networking via Blue Planet, the new capability and related applications gives operators the ability to visualise and identify trends in order to create more profitable services, better predict capacity requirements, and anticipate potential network and service disruptions before they take place.<\/p>\n<p>Blue Planet Analytics combines analytics with orchestration and policy. It utilises machine learning on data collected from multiple sources in order to improve the end user experience and simplify network operations. For example, Blue Planet Analytics and the related Network Health Predictor (NHP) application will notify a network operator well in advance if a network element has the potential to fail and requires attention. With Blue Planet Analytics and NHP, the network operator not only avoids costly network downtime and decreases repair or maintenance costs, it continues to provide a positive, uninterrupted user experience for customers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Key facts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Integrating network analytics with orchestration and policy systems, Blue Planet Analytics helps operators to continue on the path to a more autonomous network and is a strategic evolution of Ciena\u2019s Blue Planet software suite.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Built on Blue Planet\u2019s open design and extensible micro-services-based architecture, Blue Planet Analytics supports data collection from any source, including multiple network vendors, layers and physical or virtual domains. It can also take advantage of third party big data cluster systems such as Hadoop, Cloudera, and Hortonworks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Ciena is bringing two powerful new capabilities to market:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blue Planet Analytics \u2013 a robust and flexible software framework for collecting and normalising data from any source across the network, and integrating with upper-layer analytics applications available from Ciena or from third parties.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>NHP \u2013 a new application designed to work with Blue Planet Analytics that provides proactive network assurance and advanced visualisation, intelligently assessing the likelihood of failures across the optical, Ethernet, and IP layers before they impact end customers. NHP is the first in what will be a family of analytics applications for Blue Planet Analytics.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The benefits of Blue Planet Analytics are also available \u201cas a service\u201d through <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ciena.com\/products\/ciena-specialist-services\/?src=pr\">Ciena Specialist Services<\/a>. Analytics Services utilise Blue Planet Analytics and related applications to help operators quickly realise the benefits of big data, intelligent automation, and operations.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Blue Planet Analytics and the NHP will be available in February 2017.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cReal-time data analytics is fast becoming a priority for operators: \u00a0it is both a source of invaluable insights into network performance, trends and potential issues and an enabler for the improved automation that will allow them to truly gain the benefits of network virtualisation and cloudification. Operators are signalling strong interest in open operational frameworks that can incorporate analytical applications from multiple vendors in support of intelligent network automation. Ciena\u2019s Blue Planet Analytics leads a broader trend towards vendors incorporating micro services-based, policy-driven analytics into NFV\/SDN orchestration and management platforms,\u201d says\u00a0Dana Cooperson, Research Director, Analysys Mason.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve long anticipated how today\u2019s emerging trends like 5G, IoT and virtualisation would fundamentally change networks and drive new business models. A natural extension of our Blue Planet software suite, our new Analytics capability and NHP application give operators a powerful mechanism to improve network performance and speed our customer\u2019s transition to a more intelligent, automated, and profitable network,\u201d concluded\u00a0Nirav Modi, Vice President and General Manager, Blue Planet, Ciena.    \t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the newest capability in Ciena\u2019s\u00a0Blue Planet portfolio, Blue Planet Analytics generates network insights through big data to help network operators make smarter, data-driven business decisions. 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