Rakuten Mobile picked Cisco, Nokia, and F5 as partners for its long-gestating 5G standalone (5G SA) mobile network deployment in Japan, deals that are important strategic wins for those vendors. The ...

First-ever network slicing trial on a live commercial network showcases fixed wireless access (FWA) slicing use case for the first time The pilot will enable new services and high-quality customer ...

One of the increasingly important use cases for 5G has been fixed wireless access (FWA), with its exponents eyeing up huge possibilities in effectively connecting communities traditionally ignored by ...

Rakuten Mobile has selected Cisco, Nokia and F5 to support its 5G SA network in Japan offering cloud-native, artificial intelligence (AI)-driven systems to simplify operations, reduce costs and ...