“ It ' s starting to make it more open so that you fuel and accelerate innovation , bringing in diversity and flexibility to the industry ”
RABIH DABBOUSSI CHIEF BUSINESS OFFICER , RAKUTEN SYMPHONY
general purpose processors ”, including silicon chipsets and processors powerful enough for telco workloads .
“ Our architectural foundation was around : ‘ Let ' s build the network using the latest in industry innovations , and let ' s not take steps back because we ' re new in the industry , we want to build something for the future ’.
Symphony Employees
“ The first strategic decision was to use a software-only system for the radio access network . And along that , build a unified cloud layer that supports every function in the network with one operating system , with one virtualisation layer eliminating the complexities , but requiring our suppliers and our partners to convert their systems to software-only in the long-run ,” explains Dabboussi .
“ Not just a software system that runs in a big , monolithic , virtualised layer , but we want you to follow the mission to convert it to a Kubernetes-based , containerisedbased architecture , because it ’ s lightweight , efficient , very agile , and modular .”
He continues enthusiastically : “ In the truly cloud-native , you take that monolithic
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