Japanese operator Rakuten Mobile announced the opening of a lab in which the telco says it utilizes all the technologies and experiences it has gained through the deployment of its Open vRAN network in Japan.
In a release, Rakuten Mobile said that its virtualized Open vRAN verification platform is now available to operators, vendors and other enterprises, in addition to academic organizations. The telco will also expand the lab to accelerate the research and development of Open vRAN in Japan and globally, contributing to the promotion of disaggregated architecture and containerization to run cloud native network functions on commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) hardware.
