Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN) is one of the top stocks to buy according to Whale Rock Capital Management. On June 23, Ciena Corporation’s (NYSE:CIEN) Blue Planet division and Telefónica Deutschland announced they had completed a joint proof of concept, or PoC, showing how AI agents can speed up the design of 5G network slicing services.
The companies stated that the project tested whether agentic AI could help engineers manage the entire lifecycle of building a network slice, which is from initial design through to cataloging and final setup. For context, network slicing lets telecom operators carve a single physical network into multiple virtual ones, and each tailored with different speed, capacity, or reliability levels for specific business customers or use cases. However, designing these slices typically demands specialized engineering skills and significant manpower.
To test a faster approach, Blue Planet integrated its AI Studio platform into Telefónica Deutschland’s existing Multi-Domain Service Orchestration environment. The trial focused on tasks such as writing technical specifications for a network slice and generating the standardized data packages needed to activate it. According to Blue Planet, these tasks typically take weeks, but were completed in minutes once AI agents took over the repetitive, rules-based portions of the process.
The PoC showed that the AI agents could translate complex technical standards into simpler guided steps. The system then reused pre-built components already stored in Telefónica Deutschland’s service catalog rather than building each slice from scratch.
Beyond speed, the PoC showed that the approach also improved consistency and accuracy. The reason was that automated, repeatable workflows reduce the chance of human error compared to manual configuration.
Ciena Corporation (NYSE:CIEN) is a network technology company. It provides hardware, software, and services for network operators, including optical networking, routing, and switching products, as well as automation and analytics platforms.
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