NEC: Rakuten Mobile, 5G base station equipment: Radio unit RU / mass production started
Rakuten Mobile: NEC
Started mass production of wireless slave stations for 5th generation mobile communication systems (5G) / base station equipment at NEC Platforms / Fukushima Office.
5G base station equipment: Radio slave station (Radio Unit “RU”)
NEC has completed shipment of the first NEC 5G RU for Rakuten Mobile.
This time, the 5G RU that NEC started mass production is
With high quality by NEC technology,
Equipped with 3.7GHz / super multi-element Massive MIMO antenna
Small / light / low power consumption.
Rakuten Mobile:
We will build a network by installing base stations from the Tokyo area using 5G RUs.
The commercial service of the 5G network is scheduled to start in June 2020.
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Rakuten Mobile and NEC to build Open vRAN Architecture in Japan:
Tokyo, June 5, 2019 –
Rakuten Mobile, Inc., the mobile network subsidiary of Rakuten Group, and NEC Corporation, a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies,
today announced that the two companies have formed a partnership to build the world’s first 5G open vRAN architecture in Japan.
NEC has been selected to be the 5G network equipment provider for Rakuten Mobile’s new and innovative network.
Through the partnership, Rakuten and NEC
will jointly develop a 3.7 GHz massive MIMO 5G antenna radio unit (RU), which will be manufactured by NEC at its facilities in Japan.
NEC’s RU
are ideal for 5G conditions as they are compact, lightweight and consume a low level of power, which reduces installation and operation costs.
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