11 March, 2020Rakuten Mobile selects Nokia for optical transport for its first 5G cloud-native mobile network
Nokia announced Rakuten Mobile will deploy the Nokia 1830 Photonic Service Switch to power its reconfigurable photonic mesh mobile backhaul network. Rakuten Mobile, Japan’s mobile carrier, is set to launch the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualised cloud-native 5G mobile network. The deployment of Nokia’s cutting-edge coherent and optical component technologies will enable Rakuten Mobile to easily and flexibly grow its network bandwidth for the rapid rollout of 4G and 5G services. (more…)
