The 5G hyperautomation of Rakuten Symphony's subsidiary Robin.io
5G is seeing rapid adoption due to its promise of high speed, seamless delivery and low latency, that enables it to deliver new and exciting revenue-generating services. Studies reveal that there will be 1.2 billion 5G connections by 2025, covering a third of the world’s population.[1] 5G will play a critical role in enabling the next-generation of applications and services, like gaming, trade and Industry 4.0, in general.
First things first, the momentum and the scale promised by next-generation mobile networks demand significantly more infrastructure support than the previous cellular generations. Industry estimates show that 50 base stations will be required for every square kilometer to meet the stringent speed and coverage that 5G is expected to deliver.[2] For example, San Jose, California, will need approximately 23,300 base stations, considering the size is 466 km2. In practice, 5G cannot drive any of its desired results without specifically tailored infrastructure at the edge to backend. At this scale, supporting hardware, cloud platforms and services software through manual operations will limit scale and time to market, posing a tremendous risk, and costing operators billions.
Unfortunately, legacy vendors’ platforms, used to deliver NFs and services, rely on status quo life cycle management and are incapable of facilitating rapid 5G buildouts. Most of today’s popular single vendor solutions are based on their legacy solutions, with a bolted on, poorly integrated container automation solution, rebranded as cloud-native – creating operations and resource sharing silos. Furthermore, most of these employ legacy storage solutions piped through a Container Storage Interface (CSI) that are not suitable for business continuity and disaster recovery of stateful containerized edge applications. Regardless of their flashy marketing pitch, these legacy solutions will undoubtably choke future edge deployments somewhere down the line, limiting expansion, creating even more siloes. Lastly, dependency on a single vendor, with a lack of disaggregation severely affects one’s capacity to innovate or scale rapidly – not to mention the cost and opportunity disadvantages.
One of the many things that makes Robin.io different is that we’ve built our products from the ground up to support the needs of 5G, from edge to core, focusing not only on feature and functionality but ease of use and unprecedented automation. Robin’s full functionality isn’t locked behind complex CLI requiring years of expertise. Anyone can operate it! One tier-1 MNO has built a cloud-native, open vRAN software 4G/5G network, leveraging Intel technology, QCT servers and Robin.io’s Kubernetes automation and orchestration platforms. The resulting cloud-native deployment model is optimized with Robin.io’s innovative application-aware storage and carrier-grade networking.
What is Robin.io’s 5G hyperautomation?
Robin.io’s hyperautomation capabilities combine the powers of robotic process automation, AI/ML and related technologies to make automation intelligent and powerful. They cover multiple domains that include bare metal servers, cloud platforms, applications, services, transport-to-cloud network slicing and third-party devices – all of which are driven by automated policies up and down the solution stack.
Used in many industries, including telecommunications, Robin.io’s hyperautomation capabilities enable MNOs to remotely control their entire software and hardware stack, achieve “one-click” service delivery, and rapid scaling and deployment across multiple domains in the solution stack – not just one or two at a time. It is an essential reality for operators who are building on the 5G promise by adopting a digital-first approach. From identifying risks to improving response times, achieving FTR, and significantly reducing costs, Robin.io is supporting multiple 5G use cases with scale and precision.
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