Kailem Anderson
Vice President, Global Products & Delivery, Blue Planet
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Kailem Anderson is Vice President of Global Products & Delivery for Blue Planet, a division of Ciena. His responsibilities include global ownership of Product Management, Engineering, Delivery, Support and Partner Ecosystems for Ciena's Software business (Blue Planet). In this capacity, he leads a team of more than 700 employees, to drive the vision, direction, execution, delivery and profit & loss of the Blue Planet suite of products into the Telecommunications market segment.
Well-established in the networking industry for over 20 years, Kailem has held various leadership positions at Cisco, IBM, and Microsoft, where he focused on introducing new technologies to market in the areas of networking, security, data center, automation and SaaS.
Kailem holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and an MBA from the University of New South Wales and resides in Sydney, Australia.
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Hyped to Death: AI Must Avoid Becoming a Cliché
AI use by telcos and providers can potentially improve customer service, speed onboarding, and reduce outages by pro-actively identifying problems. Kailem Anderson examines whether this is all hype, or if can AI deliver benefits to the enterprise.
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Ciena Completes Acquisition of DonRiver
Ciena has officially completed the acquisition of DonRiver. Rick Hamilton, SVP of Global Software and Services at Ciena, details how the integration of these new capabilities into our Blue Planet portfolio will help our customers in their journey to
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Multi-Layer Networks? Intelligent Multi-Layer Orchestration Has Arrived
There are many challenges that service providers must deal with in multi-layer networks. A majority of them stem from the lack of coordinated visibility and orchestration across the optical and IP/MPLS layers.
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Ciena Completes Acquisition of Packet Design
Ciena has officially completed the acquisition of Packet Design. Rick Hamilton, SVP of Global Software and Services at Ciena, details how the integration of these new capabilities into our Blue Planet portfolio will help our customers in their path
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Our Blue Orbit Ecosystem expands with addition of AWS and Azure | Blue Planet
New technology alliances with major global cloud providers are elevating our ecosystem and accelerating customers’ Digital Transformation. Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson provides the details.
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Blue Planet powers your cloud-first strategy | Blue Planet
Cloud-native intelligent automation software provided in a SaaS-based consumption model is required to help service providers maximize their business agility and fully realize the advantages that moving their OSS to the cloud offers, says Blue
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Closing the Loop: Ciena closes acquisition of Centina | Blue Planet
Ciena has officially closed the acquisition of Centina Systems, which will be integrated into our Blue Planet division. Kailem Anderson, VP of Portfolio and Engineering for Blue Planet, details the crucial set of capabilities Centina brings that
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Dynamic inventory lays the foundation for 5G | Blue Planet
Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson details the importance of dynamic inventory management, and how one major CSP is already implementing this approach in their 5G network today.
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On-Demand Services for our On-Demand World | Blue Planet
Anand Santhanam, Vice President, Communications, Media & Entertainment, Americas, of Infosys and Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson, Vice President of Software and Services, discuss the value that on-demand services bring to network operators, and to
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It takes a village to monetize the dynamic 5G edge | Blue Planet
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Change your OSS mindset: Introducing Blue Planet's Cloud Native Platform | Blue Planet
Kailem Anderson explains how Blue Planet’s Cloud Native Platform can turn your OSS into a key competitive advantage to drive business growth.
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Rethinking NaaS as a journey to openness and automation | Blue Planet
NaaS can feel like an abstract concept, and various misconceptions abound on what it is and what is possible. But as Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson explains, NaaS has measurable and quantifiable benefits that are achievable today.
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The evolution of NaaS: from standardization to monetization | Blue Planet
OSS modernization and network monetization are top priorities for CSPs, and, as Blue Planet's Kailem Anderson explains, NaaS provides a solid foundation for both of these efforts. With a standardized framework that facilitates autonomous operations
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Winning the race to the 5G edge with intelligent automation | Blue Planet
As CSPs and their ecosystem partners – which include hyperscale cloud operators and application/NFV software vendors – are building out 5G edge infrastructure to deliver innovative digital experiences for their consumer and enterprise customers,
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Blue Planet gives DISH a ‘Dynamic Whiteboard’ to visualize its automated 5G network | Blue Planet
As DISH Wireless builds out a first-of-its-kind 5G network across the U.S., it’s leveraging a cutting-edge, standards-based intelligent automation platform with the flexibility to support tens of thousands of dynamic network slices. Blue