Tareq Amin on telecom transformation and Mobile as a Software™ : MWC 2023

Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony CEO Tareq Amin gave a keynote address at Rakuten's Mobile as a Software™ theater event during Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona. Listen to his full presentation, where he takes the audience through the history of the industry, touching on the challenges modern-day operators face around outdated approaches to building and running networks, and how the implementation of Mobile as a Software™ is shifting the center of gravity in telecom.

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Timestamps

0:04 - Opening statement
0:40 - Overview of generations of networks
2:52 - Where the telecom industry is today
4:00 - How Rakuten Symphony is moving away from traditional telecom
4:57 - The premise of Mobile as a Software™
6:21 - How Rakuten is leading the Open RAN conversation
6:58 - Main pillars of Mobile as a Software™
14:27 - The proven performance of Rakuten Mobile and Rakuten Symphony
17:28 - How Rakuten enables the cloud as a network foundation
19:48 - Symware™: The world's first Open-RAN architecture with Intel CPU including embedded acceleration
21:25: Evolution of Symworld™ services  
22:09: eBPF: A new approach to observability, networking and security
22:45 Closing statement