OREX Pave the Way for AI-enabled

5G Open RAN
Sadayuki Abeta
NTT DOCOMO
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 5G Service opportunity and open RAN

New Deployment Scenarios

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 Enterprise Customer Needs for 5G

Finance,
Insurance
Service
Others
Industry
AI 13%
Media
Participated by 3%
Mobility 7% Enterprise 36%
over 5,300 Customer
10%
companies/organizations Robotics Needs

31%
Manufacturing
Industry

DOCOMO 5G open partner program

 DOCOMO’s achievement on open RAN

2010 2018 2020 2021 2022 2023

4G

Created
Deployed world’s
5G Open RAN Launched Will Launch vRAN
Implemented a DOCOMO is a first O-RAN
cross-vendor RAN Ecosystem DOCOMO in commercial
founding member compliant
in LTE/4G network of the O-RAN multivendor 5G Shared Open Lab
in Japan Alliance commercial testing facility
network

Open RAN with Developing vRAN vRAN

purpose build HW With COTS server in commercial

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 DOCOMO’s commercial RAN

> 16 Million 5G Subscribers / > 20,000 gNB

 5G Open RAN Ecosystem

Challenge of Open RAN (vRAN)

Best-of-breed, high-quality and flexible networks

 System integration/ Global operators

inter-operability test
AMD/XILINX
 Performance WINDRIVER
vmware DELL Technologies
• Capacity Red Hat
FUJITSU
• Power consumption
 Operational impact Qualcomm intel

• LCM Hewlett Packard

NVIDIA Enterprise
 TCO is unclear NTT Data
NEC MAVENIR
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Sharing
Pre-integrated solution

Sharing
test process

Sharing
test Lab

Sharing is Key
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