Rakuten Mobile &Rakuten Communications Platform Overview
Tareq Amin, Group EVP & CTO
Azita Arvani, GM Rakuten Mobile Americas
August 2020
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Rakuten Group: Global Innovation Company
Ecosystem Size, GTV (2019) Revenue (2019) Employees
Services Global Membership (2019) Annual Point Issued
USD172B USD11B 20,000
70+ 1.4B
YoY +24.3% YoY +14.7%
USD 2.9BP
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Technology Canvas for Future Transformation
ENABLEIndustry
ENRICHIndividual Experiences
EMPOWERSociety
5G Mobile Service
Telemedicine Smart Stadiums
Smart Cities
Drone Delivery
Manufacturing VirtualTravel
Virtual Shopping
DigitalContent
Infrastructure Principles Must Co-Exist
Security
Agility
Affordability
Three Force Multipliers
Disaggregation
Virtualization
Software-Defined
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Rakuten Architecture is Designed around Open Networks
Edge Data Centers Centralized Data Centers
FIBER FIBERFibre
SUB-6 RU
Internet
vDU
RCP CLUSTER
vDU
vDU
RCP AUTOMATOR
vDU
IP Tra
nsp
ort
CU
-CP
RCP CLUSTER
CU
-UP
vEP
C
RCP AUTOMATOR
vIMS
IP Tra
nsp
ort5G mmWave
4G LTE
Front Haul Fiber
Mid Haul Fiber
Network
OpenRAN
ARCHITECTURE
RAN
Cloud native, de-coupled, OpenRAN Architecture
AUTOMATION
& AI OPS
OPERATIONS
Pervasive automation andzero operations control
MEC
COTS-BASED
MEC DESIGN
Optimal mix of edge andcentral DCs & resources
OPEN
HW & SW
HW&SW
Standardized, open HWand SW frameworks
OpenCORE
INNOVATION
CORE
Innovation partnership w/ NEC to create OpenCORE
An open network delivers cost effective & vendor agnostic solutions
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0.5GB/Day
Data Volume / Sub
2X more compared to
other operators
70%
RCS Calls Ratio
2.5X more RCS calls
than VoLTE
Video Performance
2 Million Videos / Day
50% of traffic is video and
streaming
Network Able to Serve Demand of Data Hungry Customers
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…among proponents of “fully virtualised mobile networks”, built on cheap hardware and controlled by software in a manner similar to computing clouds. They include Rakuten, a Japanese technology group, which launched the first full-scale virtualised network on April 8th. If netheads heave their way, it may prove as momentous as Amazon’s launch in 2006 of its trailblazing cloud-computing arm.
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Rakuten Communications Platform
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Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP) is the next generation Operator Enabling Platform
Highest Efficiency on Infrastructure
Utilization – Kubernetes (RCP Cluster)
Shared Network Platform as Commercial
Model – Network Sharing (RCP Functions:
vRAN)
Cloud Native Operations for Telco –
Intelligent Operations (RCP Automator)
Open Innovation Powered by the
Ecosystem –
Open Source (RCP Marketplace)
MARKETPLACE
& INTEGRATION
INFRA &
NETWORKING
INTELLIGENT
OPERATIONS
FUNCTIONS &
ONBOARDING
PartnersChannels Connected Industry
RCP Marketplace
RCP AUTOMATOR
Intelligent OperationsBilling
Network Control
RCP CLUSTER Physical Network 3rd Party Cloud
Physical Network Functions
Virtual Network Functions Cloud-native NW Functions
Software Defined Networks
Service Design & DevOps Universal Cloud Orchestration
Rakuten Communications Platform
Rakuten Ecosystem
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RCP Marketplace: Click - Purchase - Deploy
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Elastic Backbone 8TB
Transport
Highest flexibility and scaling with lowest latency
COTS based CDC, RDC & GCs
Cloud
COTS based MEC Infrastructure deployed
4G & 5G OpenRANPlatform
RAN
Cloud native 5G radio architecture deployed on RCP
Services
RCSRakuten Link App
Single app for all communicationneeds deployed
Platform
Cloud NativeTelco Platform
Highly stable. demand elastic, cloud native telco Platform
Automation & AI-Operation
Operations
Ops efficiency with RMOPs being improved everyday
Journey of Innovation since 2018A highly stable, demand elastic and future-proof telco platform in only two years
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Designed and built upfront as a platform to enable co-innovation and openness
CLOUD PLATFORM
Leveraging open-source technology across
the board as a critical enabler to drive
innovation and openness:
Actively driving and co-innovating on key
industry cloud native open source
initiatives such as:
Creating a global network of co-
innovation labs with RCP customers:
Tokyo
San Mateo
Rome
Bangalore
Singapore
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