RAKUTEN SYMPHONY
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– we all know that was a game changer . And we all know the impact that this iPhone had in the creation of the new generation of networks , in terms of driving data consumption and acceleration of a datacentric mobile architecture .
“ While consumer devices have evolved substantially since the invention of the 1G mobile network in the 80s , the fundamental foundation of these networks has never changed . They are still run on proprietary hardware , have a strong hardware dependency , require long lead times to build , and bring extremely high operational complexity . And thus , here comes Rakuten .”
Strategy matters : software vs hardware “ Mobile networks and telecom networks in general , because of the complexity and because of the fact that the technology is quite unique , have not gotten to a level of openness as we have in the enterprise world ,” explains Rabih Dabboussi , Rakuten Symphony ’ s Chief Business Officer and a keen technologist with an abundance of experience .
“ For example , your email application from Microsoft works with my email application from Apple , a radio site that is offered by vendor X with antenna , a base band unit , and associated ancillaries and components , but that cannot be disaggregated – where you select the antenna from vendor X and the basement unit from vendor Y , and other control planes and user plane functions from vendor Z .
“ So the idea behind Mobile-asa-Software is to open up those very interesting and proprietary interfaces that
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