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Rakuten's Cloud business (aka Symphony) is made for Telecom Companies wanting to switch away from traditional RAN model to OpenRAN. It's not really a direct com
by harpratap 4y ago
Rakuten's Cloud business (aka Symphony) is made for Telecom Companies wanting to switch away from traditional RAN model to OpenRAN. It's not really a direct competitor to AWS or GCP (although AWS, GCP and Azure seems to be making big progress in getting Telecos to switch their 5G infra to public cloud).
Symphony is nothing but a wrapper on top of vendor software from the likes of Mavenir, Nokia, NEC, Altiostar etc. There is not much real engineering done by Rakuten themselves, they just get different vendors under same umbrella and ask them to play nice with each other.
Source: Used to work in Rakuten's Cloud divisions