What has Rakuten Symphony learned about deploying Open RAN at scale?

Do you believe this can benefit any operator considering the technology?

  • As the center of gravity moves from hardware to software, the business becomes a software-centric business.
  • It takes an artist to deploy one Open RAN base station, but it takes software, and an industrialized automation platform, to scale that to 1 million cells.

LEARNINGS – A BETTER WAY

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Ten-year innovation cyclesWeekly streams of innovation
Big Bang RFP tech modelTrial-to-scale/speedboat model
Opaque supply chain limitationTransparent supply chain choice
Generationally improving economicsContinuously improving economics
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