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Introducing the Real Open RAN Licensing Program

Featuring Award-Winning, Extensively Deployed Software to Accelerate Global Open RAN Adoption

Highest performing Open RAN

Superior performance proven at scale by industry leading tests. We enable the best performing Open RAN network in the world.
Per Opensignal, Rakuten Mobile 5G ranked among the top operators in Japan in following:
  • Download speed, upload speeds, live video experience, quality experience.
  • We are now extending these capabilities to customers worldwide, including 1&1 in Germany.
Live video experience
Upload speed experience
consistent quality
5G download speed
Radio supply chain diversity

Radio supply chain diversity

We enable the most diverse Open RAN ecosystem in the industry with interoperability testing completed with over 30 low, mid and high radio bands.
  • Mature radio interoperability testing
  • Reduce vendor lock-in and overall costs
  • 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 workloads are deployed on multiple private and public cloud infrastructure, several Open-Source Linux distributions and various hardware platforms. 
  • Support both in-line and look-aside acceleration for increased architecture flexibility.

What do you need?

We are the most experienced in the market at making Open RAN work at scale.
We are the most advanced at operating such networks with total automation and fastest time to market.
We have integrated the largest number of verified radios through our extensive interoperability testing.
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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.
Ralph Dommermuth
CEO 1&1

Large-Scale Deployments

Rakuten Mobile
  • World’s first open cloud-native nationwide mobile network
  • 7 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
1&1
  • 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

Open RAN Resources

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