I kind of feel Rakuten is just moving their problem down the line, or up the stack. Key focus areas in Open RAN is containers now. The commodity hardware at t

I kind of feel Rakuten is just moving their problem down the line, or up the stack. Key focus areas in Open RAN is containers now. The commodity hardware at the edge needs to be able to run many of the network functions in containers, and to do that, a service provider is going to need very good k8s orchestration. There are not a ton of "free" options any mobile service provider will choose to manage this at scale.