We enable the most diverse Open RAN ecosystem in the industry with interoperability testing completed with over 30 low, mid and high radio bands.
Industry’s most mature radiointeroperability testing
Reduce vendor lock-in and overallcosts
Radio partners include Airspan, KMW,Sercomm, Nokia, Qucell, Prose, NEC, MTI
Automation at scale
Reduce deployment cycle from years/months to weeks/days resulting in 30% lower TCO and faster time to market.
Speed of Deployment
4 mins
for 5G site deployment instead of days/months
Agility of Provisioning
3 mins
mobile service provisioning instead of 3 hours
Operating Efficiency
1:20K
for 5G site deployment instead of days/months
New Features
10–15
network features and service per month
Automation & AI/ML
5
automation feature sets released per day
Field-proven Open RAN solutions
Open RAN 4G DU & CU
Carrier-grade, field proven, fully containerized, disaggregated, feature rich Open 4G RAN for green field & brown field next generation mobile operator networks for macro, indoor/ outdoor small cell & femto cell deployments
Disaggregated architecture for flexible edge data center as well as cell site deployments.
3rd Party O-RAN RU integration with 30+ radio bands for increased choice.
RAN features in line with traditional vendors’ capabilities
Containerized CU and DU, unlocking automation and operational efficiency
Large-scale commercial deployments with over 300k+ cells while outpacing in-country operator KPIs.
Our RAN workloads are deployed on multiple private clouds, several Open-Source Linux distributions and various hardware platforms
Open RAN 5G DU & CU
Carrier-grade, field proven, microservices architecture based, feature rich Open 5G RAN for next generation mobile operator networks supporting FR1 and FR2, 4T4R and massive MIMO RU, macro and indoor/ outdoor small cell deployments
Disaggregated architecture for flexible edge data center as well as cell site deployments.
3rd Party O-RAN RU integration with 30+ radio bands including massive MIMO
Advanced NR features such as beamforming and MU-MIMO
Large-scale commercial deployments while outpacing in-country operator KPIs.
Micro-service architecture to unlock benefits of cloud-native network
Our RAN workloadsare deployed on multiple private and public cloud infrastructure, several Open-Source Linux distributions and various hardware platforms.
Support both in-line and look-aside accelerationfor increased architecture flexibility.
Large-Scale Deployments
World’s first open cloud-native nationwide mobile network
8 million subscribers
99.9% population 4G coverage
Over 60,000 sites
Proven performance per leading industry reports
Network spanning macro, femto, and small cell form factors
Europe’s first fully virtualized 5G network based on Open RAN
Germany’s fourth nation-wide network
eMBB network went live in December 2023
A proven FWA solution that has demonstrated speeds of 1 gigabit per second.
Roaming support with other operator networks
Network covering macro & DAS deployments
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Rakuten ensures that all network components interact smoothly. In this way, 1&1 benefits from the extensive experience that Rakuten has gained in recent years in operating the world’s first Open RAN.”
