RF PLANNING FOR OPEN RAN NETWORKS
Open RAN planning success story: Rakuten Mobile In October 2019, Rakuten Mobile launched services as Japan’s fourth mobile network operator. Ahead of this launch, the company built and successfully tested the world’s first end-to-end fully virtualized cloud-native Open RAN mobile network.
Rakuten Mobile’s engineering teams to utilize advanced planning and design features, devised to efficiently reduce the time and cost of network deployment, through extensive automation and integration. By adopting an Open RAN cloud-native network architecture as well as a comprehensive data-driven approach to planning has, according to Rakuten Mobile, resulted in a 40% CAPEX and 30% OPEX saving when compared to a traditional network architecture and a traditional network planning approach.
For network planning, Rakuten Mobile turned to Infovista to evolve their award-winning Planet software for deployment in Rakuten Mobile’s cloud-native mobile platform. Using a microservices architecture with open Application Programming Interfaces (API), Infovista’s “on-demand” radio network planning solution allowed
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