Rakuten Symphony
Executive perspectives from Rakuten Symphony across NextGenInfra's event and research showcases.
10 video interviews · 2021–2024
AI Augments Humans
- Rakuten Symphony has long used predictive AI for automated network operations.
- Geoff Hollingworth notes the potential of generative AI.
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Geoff Hollingworth, Chief Marketing Officer of Rakuten Symphony, discusses the company's implementation of AI in networking, highlighting the long-standing use of predictive AI for automated network operations, and the potential of generative AI.
Thinking Through the Telco AI Journey
- Rakuten Symphony's Geoff Hollingworth sees AI augmenting human thinking and processing large data sets.
- He warns telcos and vendors that fail to embrace AI in software risk falling behind.
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Geoff Hollingworth, Chief Marketing Officer at Rakuten Symphony, emphasizes the transformative role of AI in augmenting human thinking and processing large data sets, and warned of the risk of falling behind for the telcos and vendors who don't embrace AI in software.
MWC23: The Year the Pivot Begins
- Rakuten Symphony's Geoff Hollingworth calls MWC 2023 the inflection point to pivot to telco cloud.
- Operators must change how they process core network functions, embracing software, cloud, and automation.
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Mobile World Congress 2023 marks an important inflection point, says Geoff Hollingworth -- the industry realizes that it needs to pivot to telco cloud. It needs to change how it processes core network function. The mobile now knows that it must embrace software, cloud, and automation
The Best Way to Get Started with Telco Cloud
- Rakuten Symphony's Vivek Chadha notes operator questions shifted from what telco cloud is to how to start.
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What's new in telco cloud at Mobile World Congress 2023? The questions from mobile operators have changed, Vivek Chadha. It is no longer "what is telco cloud" but rather "what is the best way to get started with telco cloud.
We Know How to Secure Telco Clouds
- Rakuten Symphony CISO John Carse argues telco cloud security is a solvable problem.
- Critical industries like finance and defense have already created best practices for securing cloud platforms.
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Despite hand wringing at some telcos around the security of Telco Clouds, it's a solvable problem. John Carse , CISO of Rakuten Symphony and Rakuten Mobile , explains how other critical industries like finance or defense that have already moved to cloud have created best practices to secure cloud platforms.
Industry Partnerships Drive Us Forward
- Rakuten Symphony's Azita Arvani cites strong Open RAN momentum driven by industry partnerships.
- Rakuten Mobile has over 5 million subscribers, with Rakuten Symphony seeing lower costs and higher performance.
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What's hot at MWC 2022? There is a lot of industry momentum behind Open RAN, says Azita Arvani, General Manager, Americas of Rakuten Symphony, and partnerships are propelling the industry forward. Rakuten Mobile in Japan has over 5 million subscribers. Rakuten Symphony sees lower network costs and increased performance. Download AvidThink's MWC 2022 Report Collection to explore exclusive insights and research findings on hot topics covered at MWC 2022.
Network Transformation is Happening Now
- Rakuten Symphony's Geoff Hollingworth senses real intent to finally adopt long-discussed technologies.
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What's hot at MWC 2022? There is a real sense that the industry intends to adopt the new technologies that have been spoken about for so long, says Geoff Hollingworth, CMO, Rakuten Symphony. Download AvidThink's MWC 2022 Report Collection to explore exclusive insights and research findings on hot topics covered at MWC 2022.
Cloud-first for Telco Workloads
- Rakuten Symphony's Tareq Amin sees emerging acceptance of public and private cloud for deploying complex telco workloads.
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There is an emerging acceptance of public cloud and private cloud for deploying and operating complex telco workloads. Tareq Amin, CEO, Rakuten Symphony and Rakuten Mobile, shares his perspectives.
Private 5G, Open RAN
- Rakuten Symphony's Thierry Maupile highlights private 5G and Open RAN for 2022.
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Thierry Maupilé, Executive VP, Strategy and Product Management at Rakuten Symphony, shares predictions for 2022. Download AvidThink's 2021 Select Report Collection to explore strategies and opportunities in the Telco, Private Mobile Networks, Service Assurance, SD-WAN and Open RAN space.
Disrupting the Structure of the Mobile Industry
- Rakuten Symphony's Tareq Amin used Open RAN to disrupt Japan's mobile market.
- Rakuten succeeded in building a leading network despite naysayers.
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How can a brand new network become the best network in Japan? In this video, Tareq Amin, CEO of Rakuten Symphony, discusses their success in the use of Open RAN to disrupt the mobile market and how they prevailed despite naysayers. Download AvidThink's 2021 Open RAN Report to explore key infrastructure considerations for Open RAN and O-RAN adoption.