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Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Communications Platform Overview Azita Arvani, GM Rakuten Mobile Americas November 2020
Rakuten at a glance
Rakuten is an internet and technology-powered group: diversified with 70+ businesses and 20,000+ employees across the globe
Global gross
$175B transaction volume
in 2019 Germany
France
United States
$11.6B Total annual
revenue (2019)
Canada
France Luxembourg
Japan
United States
Spain
1.4+B Members
globally
Taiwan
United States
20k+ Employees across
the globe
United States
71+ Services and
businesses
35 Countries/areas
around the world
2
Technology Canvas for Future Transformation
ENABLE EMPOWER ENRICH
Industry Society Individual Experiences
5G Mobile Telemedicine Manufacturing Virtual Drone Smart Virtual Digital Smart
Service Shopping Delivery Cities Travel Content Stadiums
3
Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Communications Platform
The Rakuten Ecosystem is uniquely positioned to build an entirely new digital platform with Rakuten Mobile
telco platform
mobile operator
world’s first fully virtualized,
world’s first fully virtualized,
cloud-native, end-to-end
cloud native
Best mobile experience Enables telcos and enterprises
for consumers easily build secure and open
networks
Japan Global
Rakuten Mobile is the first customer of RCP
4
Infrastructure Principles Must Co-Exist
Agility
Security Affordability
World’s First
Fully Virtualized
New Generation Network
April 8, 2020
Full-Scale Launch
Rakuten Architecture is designed around Open Networks
RAN HW&SW MEC OPERATIONS CORE
OpenRAN OPEN COTS-BASED AUTOMATION OpenCORE
ARCHITECTURE HW & SW MEC DESIGN & AI OPS INNOVATION
Cloud Native, De-coupled, Standardized, open HW Optimal mix of edge and Pervasive automation and Innovation Partnership
OpenRAN Architecture and SW frameworks central DCs & resources zero-touch operations w/ NEC to create OpenCORE
Edge Data Centers Centralized Data Centers
4G LTE
RCP AUTOMATOR
RCP AUTOMATOR
IP Transport
IP Transport
Fibre
Front Haul FIBER Mid Haul FIBER
vDU
vDU
vDU
vDU
CU-UP
Fiber
CU-CP
vEPC
vIMS
Fiber Network
5G mmWave Internet
RCP CLUSTER
RCP CLUSTER
SUB-6 RU
7
New customer behavior
Rakuten Mobile goes beyond by delivering exceptional experience for data hungry customers
Customers Data volume/sub Video performance RCS calls ratio
> 1m
8.5 0.5 GB/ Day 2m videos 70%
Mins
Onboarded within 4 months 2X More Compared to 50% Of Traffic is Video and 2.5X More RCS Calls
Other Operators Streaming than VoLTE
8
New way to operate
Rakuten Mobile operates like no other existing telco in the world
Cell Site deployment New NW Feature NW availability Engineer : Subscriber
Mobile Service
Ratio
8.5
Provisioning Deployed
No 9s
3 MinsMins 4 Mins (for 5G) 6 Days 1 : 20,000
8.5 Mins (for 4G) Resilience
Instead of days or Old thinking:
Instead of 3 hours Instead of 6 months Instead of 1 : 1,000
months Telco-Grade (99.99999%)
9
Globally Recognized NW Performance
4G Availability Upload Speed Download Speed On-Network Time
98.6 18.9 46.9 89.3
98.5 86.6 %
% Mbps Mbps
% 74.4 %
86.3 8.8 %
Mbps 29
% Mbps
Rakuten Japan Global Rakuten Japan Rakuten Japan Tokyo Osaka Nagoya
Mobile MNOs Mobile (On-Net) MNOs Mobile (On-Net) MNOs
No. 2 in the World No. 1 Globally Speed is only 25% Increasing the time
below competition spend on our network
Foundation for 5G
significantly
network services
Top NW performance despite having only 1/6 of our competitor’s spectrum holding
Source: OpenSignal insights – 254,883 devices with 3,346,924,826 measurements
*Data Collection Period: June 1 – August 29, 2020 10Simplified Site Deployment Reducing Cost and Build Out Time
Traditional Site Deployment Rakuten Simplified Site Deployment
Integrated RRH + Antenna
Power Board Rectifier & Battery
Power Board GC
DU
BBU
BBU Rectifier & Cable &
Cabinet RRU Antenna Rectifier & Battery AAU
Battery Jumper
11Unique Modular Concrete Poles that are Simple and Cost Effective
Cost Effective Concrete Pole
40% Ease of
Installation
40% less cost compared to Deploy maximum no. of
building top macro poles nationwide
Complete Control Modular
Ease of
5G Ready
Access
To site maintenance Minimum required space
12Rakuten Mobile deployment
A highly stable, demand elastic and future-proof telco platform in only two years
Accelerate deployment
17,210
12,255
Original
target
Owner commitment 8,652
6,731
Construction complete
On-air
Original
target
3,432
2019/9〜 2020/3 2020/9/1 2021/3
（Forecast）
*As of H1 2020 13Affordability
Traditional
Opex
Capex 30%
40%5G launch in Japan
Launched 5G on September 30th 2020
Un-limit plan V (5G plan) Radio unit Radio unit Coverage Mobile Devices
Same 5G NR 5G NR 6 2 new
(mmWave
cost (sub-6 RU) DRU)
prefectures phones
Tokyo, Kanagawa,
As Un-limit plan (4G plan) 3.8Ghz, 32 32 TRx, 28 GHz, 128 x 128 Element, Rakuten Big, Rakuten Hand
Saitama, Hokkaido, Osaka
70 dBM EIRP 51 dBm EiRP Antenna and Hyogo.
15How did Rakuten Mobile approach 5G
Rakuten Mobile had to re-define how an operator is designed and works for 5G
Cloud Radio Automation
Standardized COTS OpenRAN is the most Automation enables
HW & Containers crucial component for much-needed
make the difference industry disruption operational savings
Collaboration Security Organization
Enabling Open With Openness comes 5G needs a new way of
Innovation is a must responsibility for top working and
Security operating model
165G enabled fully containerized VoRAN
Launched Rakuten Big, Sub6 and mmWave 5G network
Rakuten 5G products
Rakuten BIG 5G mmWave 5G sub-6
Radio
RCP
LTE LTE LTE
SW SW SW
Gues Gues Gues
t OS t OS t OS 5G
S
W
CPR
VM VM VM
I
Hyperviser RCP
Host OS Operation System
Baseband
Hardware &
LTE SW
Legacy Virtualized Stack Containerized stack
Legacy custom-build hardware with oRAN compliant software deployed as VNF oRAN compliant software deployed as CNF
proprietary software implementation (Virtual Network Function) on COTS hardware (Containerized Network Function) on RCP platform17One of the World’s Largest HetNet
OpenRAN Deployment
URBAN SUBURBAN RURAL
4x4 4x4 2x2 2x2 2x2 2x2 + Wi-Fi* 2x2 + Wi-Fi 128x128 32x32
Split 7.2 Split 7.2 Split 2 Split 2 Split 2 Split 2 Split 2 Split 2 Split 7.2
Macro Mini Macro Small cell Enterprise Femto 5G NR
Integrated HetNet Approach allows us to manage existing spectrum better
1830% More Coverage per Site = 30% Less Sites
2 Transmit
2 Receive Other Operators
Antennas
Cable
Loss
B Radio
Old School RRH/RU
B Radio
U 80W Total Power RRH
Radio
High Cable Loss / PIM
4 Transmit
Radio
Radio
Radio
4 Receive
Antennas
Integrated Antenna & Radios
160W High Power RRH
No Cable Loss
No PIM (Passive Intermodulation)
Fewer equipment in the site
Such an advantage means we need 30% fewer sites to cover the country
19Rakuten Communications Platform
20We take OpenRAN Global with RCP
Rakuten Communications Platform is behind our 5G Initiatives and we will provide it to operators globally next year
INTELLIGENT • ADVANCED AUTOMATION
Advanced
& SECURE OSS BSS Analytics AI / ML FOR TOUCHLESS
OPERATIONS
OPERATIONS
RAN CORE
• 100% DISAGGREGATION
NETWORK vRAN – 4G – vBBU vEPC v5GC IoT RMS
SDN FROM HARDWARE
FUNCTIONS vRCS vIMS uUC3 … • OPEN ARCHITECTURE
vRAN – 5G – vDU/vCU
• 100% COTS HARDWARE
CLOUD UNIFIED TELECOM CLOUD • ELASTICITY WITH
INFRA CONTAINERS TO SCALE AT
STRUCTURE INFRASTRUCTURE COTS OPTICAL SWITCHING LOW COST
At each capability layer of our Architecture, we design to deliver significant value and outcomes to our business
21RCP is built on key secure operations principles
Enabling us to embed security at every layer of the communications stack
Trusted Transparency Zero Trust NIST Framework Clean Network
Working with a trusted Conducting Trust Adopting the Providing secure end-to-
supply chain and Assessment, applying Cybersecurity Framework end cloud-native network
continuously verifying Trust Level Policy for to enhance our capability infrastructure with trusted
the trust level of the each network zone, and to identify, prevent, detect, partners and establishing
system – all physical, enforcing the Policy respond to cyber attacks processes to safeguard
virtual, hardware and through automated and recover customer privacy and
software components updates sensitive information
We are recognized by the US Department of State as a
5G Clean Telecommunications company
22CONFIDENTIAL – DRAFT FOR DISCUSSION 23
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