Blue Planet’s Kailem Anderson highlights the critical role of intelligent automation in the transition to 5G in multi-vendor, multi-layer, service provider networks as they become more dynamic, and workloads are distributed further out to the edge. With multiple cloud applications from different vendors being utilized across networks, is there such a thing as a single source of truth?

In this Executives at the Edge episode, host Pascal Menezes explores these topics and more with Kailem Anderson of Blue Planet:

• How is 5G changing the conversation with communication service providers (CSPs)?
• Why is network visibility crucial to a better digital experience for customers?
• Where do CSPs start, when considering network automation? What needs to change?   
• How can telcos deliver on 5G, Edge, and IoT next-generation services within this new, open and programmable environment?
• Can CSPs manage it all alone? Or is it better to collaborate and build an ecosystem?

About Our Guest

Kailem Anderson, Vice President, Portfolio and Engineering,
Blue Planet

Kailem Anderson is Vice President of Portfolio and Engineering for Blue Planet, a division of Ciena. His responsibilities include global ownership of Blue Planet’s portfolio strategy, direction, development and introduction of new disruptive offerings in the areas of automation, orchestration, analytics, software, SaaS and global services.

Well-established in the networking industry for 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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