Ciena’s Blue Planet has secured another strategic Inventory Transformation deal, this time at US business-focused communications provider, Lumen. 

The 3-year program is ambitious in its scale and speed, reinforcing Lumen’s desire to innovate and think radically, and get ahead of its enterprise customers’ demands.

In this 4-page Research Note, we look at the scope of this project and the factors that we believe likely gave Blue Planet an edge over well-known incumbent inventory rivals, already in place from a pre-Lumen-branding string of mergers and acquisitions.