Neo4j Vertical Summit Telecommunications Alvaro Osle, Ciena Blueplanat

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Blueplanet Inventory & Federation
Network inventory, planning and design powered by graphs
Alvaro Osle
Director of Engineering – Global Architecture
16th June 2020

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Agenda

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BluePlanet Inventory Introduction

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The core business processes for Communication Service Providers
Creation of the
service ready
network that is
able to support
new services.
Including physical,
logical & virtual
Taking the customer
request and
converting it into
service via the
network, resources
and applications
Proactive
monitoring of the
service to handle
events and faults
and restore
services to normal
state
Plan to
Build
Order to
Service
Trouble to
Resolve

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BluePlanet Portfolio
Carrier-Grade – Open – Programmable
Key components to execute on the vision of closed-loop automation
Multi-Domain Inventory,
Topology & Visualization
Orchestration Engine
Assurance, Analytics
& Policy Management
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Network Inventory is at the core of all business decisions
Show me where my network
capacity is running out
So that I can plan network
investments
Show me the connections,
services and customers that are
using this SFP
So that I don’t pull the plug on an
important customer during a planned
upgrade
Store all the planned service
demands at a location
So I can decide whether to support
another quote at that location
Do I have Ethernet 10G Capacity
between A and B?
So I can check whether I can fulfil an
order from a customer
Model and track the entire service
hierarchy (active and passive)
So I can use the data to support root
cause analysis and Service Impact

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Blueplanet Inventory target audience
Network Plan and build teams adding physical capacity to the network
Pre-sales teams who need to quote to add a new service
Service Fulfilment teams who need a consolidated service ready network
Optical and Ethernet groups building logical capacity
Operations teams supporting the network and fixing problems

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See everything, plan everything, do anything
See all your data in one place Find what you need
Plan your changeAutomate the whole operation
Legacy
inventory
Silo
solution
Eng.
function
BPI
Federation
Legacy
inventory
Silo
solution
Eng.
function
BPI
Legacy
inventory
Silo
solution
Eng.
function
BPI
Task: fix
fault
Find
alarm
Plan
C/M/D
Enact Finish
GO! (Guided Operations)

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BPI Architecture

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Load Balancing and HA

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Modelling Network Inventory in Graph

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Purposes of the Model

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Sample Graph model for a network
PluggableSlotLocation Equipment Shelf Card
PhysicalPort
Logical
Interface
Logical
Connection
Service
Customer
Rack
Physical
Connection

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