Rakuten Mobile Secures NICT Funding for Global Standardization of Advanced Edge Cloud

The project, partially funded by the NICT, aims to address the limitations of current international standards for network specifications that were established before the advent of cloud-native networks. These existing standards are inadequate for the increasing user numbers and communication volumes anticipated in the era beyond 5G. Rakuten Mobile seeks to incorporate flexible, efficient and scalable cloud-native networks into these specifications.

Rakuten Mobile has already built a large-scale, fully-virtualized, cloud-native mobile network in Japan. Leveraging this expertise, the company will closely collaborate with organizations responsible for international standardization to drive the creation and adoption of unified international standards for cloud management, including edge cloud technologies essential to the era beyond 5G, thereby contributing to the widespread adoption of cloud-native networks.

Furthermore, through its subsidiary, Rakuten Symphony, Rakuten Mobile aims to ensure that global cloud solutions such as Rakuten Cloud comply with international standards, as part of the company’s goal to deploy flexible and secure cloud services worldwide.