Saudi Arabia\u2019s Etisalat on Monday said it has inked a partnership with Rakuten Mobile Inc. to develop a blueprint for mobile broadband networks and Open RAN technology based on Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP). <\/p>\n
Under this agreement, the two companies will jointly develop a reference design for the mobile operator\u2019s customers across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia regions based on open standards and a cloud-native, software-centric, and fully virtualized\/containerized platform. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re excited to work with Etisalat to build a new generation of telecom infrastructure based on the Rakuten Communications Platform which will bring cost-effective mobile services to their customers across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia,\u201d said Tareq Amin, Representative Director, Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Rakuten Mobile. <\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a unique opportunity for Etisalat and Rakuten Mobile to co-explore and further develop next-generation mobile networks based on RCP that will allow Etisalat to leverage a cost-effective, cloud-native, Open RAN based mobile network architecture that is secure, scalable and reliable,\u201d said Hatem Bamatraf, Chief Technology Officer, Etisalat International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Saudi Arabia\u2019s Etisalat on Monday said it has inked a partnership with Rakuten Mobile Inc. to develop a blueprint for mobile broadband networks and Open RAN technology based on Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP). Under this agreement, the two companies will jointly develop a reference design for the mobile operator\u2019s customers across the Middle East, Africa, and Asia regions based on open standards and a cloud-native, software-centric, and fully virtualized\/containerized platform. \u201cWe\u2019re excited to work with Etisalat to build a new generation of telecom infrastructure based on the Rakuten Communications Platform which will bring cost-effective mobile services to their customers across […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-798198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-telecom"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}