RAKUTEN SYMPHONY
“ The ecosystem and the partnership environment that we have is super important to our success , and very complementary and mutually valuable in our strategies ”
RABIH DABBOUSSI CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER , RAKUTEN SYMPHONY
used to be monolithic , breaking them down and disaggregating them through standard interfaces .
“ And that ' s why Open RAN is not something that Rakuten came up with ; it ’ s something that the industry demanded , it stemmed out of a need . And although
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Rakuten advanced it and contributed and participated , this is an industry drive and an industry initiative .”
With this new , disaggregated service platform , software-centricity is built into the framework , meaning a lesser reliance on antiquated hardware that ’ s expensive to operate and replete with inefficiencies . But what other benefits can a softwarebased operational approach provide over traditional hardware ?
Dabboussi says : “ It ' s starting to make it more open so that you fuel and accelerate innovation , bringing in diversity and flexibility to the industry . Eventually , the outcome is also going to be reduced cost , because with openness , you create competition , you create new , better , cheaper ways of doing things , and therefore it will all follow through . “ About 15 years ago , we started talking about using cloud for enterprise workloads ,
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