Rakuten Ran
Rakuten mobile s executive team took a victory lap at a press event in tokyo today boasting the first virtualized cloud native open ran.
Rakuten ran. Rakuten mobile is a big supporter of o ran principles and has seen the benefit of supply chain diversity in our own network said amin. This will be world s first cloud native network that is fully virtualized from radio access network ran to core with end to end automation for both network and service. By combining the spectral efficiency of massive mimo along with an advanced cloud based ran we are leveraging and introducing advanced innovative technology from both nec and altiostar who are. Rakuten mobile to collaborate with openran project group members in accelerating innovation and developing cost effective 4g and 5g network solutions for the tip community.
If rakuten mobile can scale deployment of its open ran tech both for 4g and 5g which comes later operators elsewhere hitherto reluctant to trust reliability of software and hardware. Since securing bandwidth approval from japan s ministry of internal affairs and communications in april 2018 rakuten has been forging ahead with construction of its own new mobile network driving world first disruptive innovation. Heading into this project amin was confident that industry forums and standards bodies were progressing sufficiently but the gaps were much. Rakuten will soon become the first new mobile network operator mno to launch in japan in over a decade.
Rakuten mobile is a big supporter of o ran principles and has seen the benefit of supply chain diversity in our own network said rakuten mobile cto tareq amin in a press release.