{"id":44981,"date":"2026-06-23T16:21:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/44981\/"},"modified":"2026-06-23T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T16:21:09","slug":"blue-planet-telefonica-deutschland-create-5g-network-slices-with-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/44981\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Planet, Telef\u00f3nica Deutschland create 5G network slices with AI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Telef\u00f3nica Deutschland worked with Blue Planet\u2019s AI Studio for a network slicing trialBlue Planet\u2019s software sped the creation of a network slice from weeks to minutesThe AI agent allows developers to use prompts to design the slice<\/p>\n

DTW IGNITE 2026, COPENHAGEN, DENMARK \u2013 Telef\u00f3nica Deutschland is working with Ciena\u2019s Blue Planet to more quickly design and implement 5G network slices.<\/p>\n

The German operator used its Multi-Domain Service Orchestration (MDSO) platform along with Blue Planet\u2019s AI Studio<\/a> for a proof of concept (PoC) to show that AI agents can spin up network slices.<\/p>\n

According to Kailem Anderson, VP and general manager for Global Products and Delivery with Blue Planet, the design of 5G network slices has taken surprisingly long \u2013 sometimes weeks. \u201cWith Telef\u00f3nica Deutschland we helped short-circuit that process,\u201d he said. \u201cThe agent expresses the intent versus having to design all that in.\u201d<\/p>\n

He explained that with Blue Planet\u2019s AI Studio, engineers can use natural language prompts to explain exactly the kind of network slice they want. The agent then creates the software, which used to require a lot of manual work and coding by humans. The whole process can be condensed into minutes, as opposed to weeks.<\/p>\n

Fierce asked how network slicing was doing in general, and Anderson said, \u201cA lot of operators still struggle with slicing and how to monetize it. They\u2019re still experimenting with different types of use cases and doing a lot of design activities.\u201d
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\u201cDesigning and delivering 5G network slicing services at scale is inherently complex and places significant demands on engineering teams,\u201d said Eva Ulicevic, director of Architecture, Strategy and Technology Enablement at Telef\u00f3nica Deutschland, in a statement. \u201cThis proof of concept has shown that AI agents, when integrated with our MDSO framework, can meaningfully simplify service design, reduce lead times and help democratize expert knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n

So far, 5G network slicing has not taken off like wildfire. Part of the reason is that operators have been slow to upgrade their wireless network cores to 5G standalone.<\/p>\n

Anderson said that use cases vary by geography. In AsiaPac there\u2019s intense interest in gaming, and operators sell network slices for that use case. In Germany, which has a lot of manufacturing, operators sell network slices for industrial IoT. In North America, network slicing has been used for major broadcast events.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost operators are still experimenting,\u201d said Anderson.<\/p>\n

According to the analyst firm Dell\u2019Oro Group, in December 2025<\/a>, 5G SA rollouts had reached a critical mass in market maturity with high population coverage in 40 countries.<\/p>\n

The growing use of agentic AI will likely motivate more operators to update their networks to 5G SA. In turn, those 5G SA networks will be capable of network slicing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Telef\u00f3nica Deutschland worked with Blue Planet\u2019s AI Studio for a network slicing trialBlue Planet\u2019s software sped the creation…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124],"tags":[4281,5383,20353,20387,20388,20389,20386,155,20385,20390],"class_list":["post-44981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-telefonica","tag-5g","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-blue-planet","tag-ciena","tag-dtw-ignite","tag-fierce-network-homepage","tag-network-slicing","tag-telefonica","tag-telefonica-deutschland","tag-wireless"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/spain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}