Ciena (NYSE:CIEN) is introducing Blue Planet Manage, Control and Plan (MCP), software intended to unify network and service management and planning. It's designed to provide real-time software control and visualization for Ciena's packet and packet optical portfolios.
Built on Blue Planet's micro-services-based architecture, Blue Planet MCP is based on open source components and open software development techniques. It's designed to provide automated, multi-layer service provisioning, network management and performance monitoring via a single interface.
Blue Planet MCP integrates management and planning in a single web-based client interface intended to help network operators better understand inter-functional relationships between network elements, multiple network layers, and the services that are running across them.
Blue Planet MCP offers open APIs for integration with current and planned business and operations support systems (B/OSS), software-defined orchestration and network function virtualization (NFV) systems. The software will also be accessible to customers, third party developers, and partners through the Ciena Emulation Cloud for open testing of Blue Planet MCP's REST API interfaces to third party network components. The software is designed to work alongside Ciena's existing OneControl Network Management platform, as needed, and be generally available in June 2017 for specific applications.