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RADCOM renews partnership with Rakuten Mobile

RADCOM has announced it has renewed its multi-year collaboration with Rakuten Mobile. The company will continue to provide current solution offerings and the collaboration will include advanced artificial intelligence (AI)-powered analytics such as anomaly detection and automated root cause analysis. These AI-driven use cases help proactively identify and prevent degradations, enabling Rakuten Mobile to maintain quality of service and drive efficient network operations and network automation monitoring. “RADCOM renews partnership with Rakuten Mobile”

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Rakuten Mobile and Nokia hit 1 Tbps milestone over 820km

Rakuten Mobile and Nokia Corporation have announced the completion of a trial of 1 Tbps (terabits per second) end-to-end transmission over a single wavelength on an 820km subsea and terrestrial hybrid optical line in Japan. The milestone marked the first 1 Tbps trial over an 820km distance in the Asia Pacific region, demonstrating capabilities to handle ultra-high-speed data transmission over significant distances. “Rakuten Mobile and Nokia hit 1 Tbps milestone over 820km”

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Rakuten Mobile, NEDO test 5G SA equipment using virtualisation

Rakuten Mobile, Inc. and Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organisation (NEDO) has announced completion of a research and development project. This aims at commercial deployment of fully virtualised 5G stand-alone (SA) mobile network radio access network equipment using general-purpose hardware and cloud technology, as part of NEDO’s “Research and Development Project of Enhanced Infrastructures for Post-5G Information and Communication Systems.”

“Rakuten Mobile, NEDO test 5G SA equipment using virtualisation”
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Rakuten Mobile, Yokosuka Telecom Research Park open RIC research facility for advancement of open RAN

Rakuten Mobile, Inc. and Yokosuka Telecom Research Park Co., Ltd. have opened a new RIC (RAN intelligent controller) research facility at the Yokosuka Research Park in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan. This aims at contributing to further advancement of Open RAN (radio access network) development.

“Rakuten Mobile, Yokosuka Telecom Research Park open RIC research facility for advancement of open RAN”
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Rakuten Mobile selects Oracle Communications for 4G, 5G services

Rakuten Mobile has chosen Oracle Communications‘ cloud native converged policy and charging solutions to support its fast-growing 4G and 5G services, with plans to onboard to Rakuten Symphony’s Symworld Marketplace. These solutions will run on Rakuten Symphony’s Symcloud Cloud Native Platform (CNP) and will help execute on the operator’s vision for an automated, high-performance architecture that scales to support consumer and business use cases across industries.

“Rakuten Mobile selects Oracle Communications for 4G, 5G services”
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Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Symphony to build open RAN customer experience centre in the UK

Tokyo, Japan. 21 November 2022 – Rakuten Mobile, Inc., Rakuten Symphony, Inc. and Rakuten Symphony UK Ltd. has announced plans to build an Open RAN Customer Experience Centre at the Rakuten Symphony offices in the United Kingdom by March 2023. The centre will offer telecom operators and industry suppliers in the European and Middle East region direct experience and testing of the latest technological advances in the field. In order to further develop and promote Open RAN technologies to support safe, open and transparent 5G networks, Rakuten Symphony plans to utilise the facility with partners to validate equipment interoperability, establish exhibition facilities to demonstrate the latest technologies and conduct workshops.

“Rakuten Mobile, Rakuten Symphony to build open RAN customer experience centre in the UK”
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Nokia and Rakuten Mobile prove case for 1 Terabit per channel transmission in live network

Espoo, Finland and Tokyo, Japan. 30 March 2022 – Nokia and Rakuten Mobile, Inc. announced that the two companies have demonstrated the first live 1 Tb/s per channel transmission over Rakuten Mobile’s commercial Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexer (DWDM) network, a speed increase of 500% on Rakuten Mobile’s existing network running at 200 Gb/s. The trial took place over two days in January 2022 and connected data centres located 135 km apart in the Kanto region in Japan.

“Nokia and Rakuten Mobile prove case for 1 Terabit per channel transmission in live network”
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