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Virgin Media O2, NEC and Rakuten Symphony drive multi-vendor Open RAN innovation in the UK: Press Releases


London/Tokyo, August 30th, 2022new windowVirgin Media O2, NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) and Rakuten Symphony have announced their joint multi-vendor Open RAN deployment is entering the field phase, commencing with the activation of the first live sites in Virgin Media O2’s commercial network. This successful multi-vendor Open RAN system deployment on macro-sites in the UK is notable for being in a brownfield network and baselined on the existing Telco Cloud supply chain to maximise future synergies. Based in the Northamptonshire region, the system highlights the mobile operator, NEC and Rakuten Symphony’s commitment to driving Open RAN innovation in the mobile industry.

Following a successful Open RAN lab trial on Virgin Media O2’s network with NEC, Rakuten Symphony and ecosystem partners last year, the field deployment is now operational to handle commercial traffic. NEC’s world-class system integration capabilities and fully open end-to-end solution, combined with Rakuten Symphony’s Open RAN software, edge cloud, and radio management and operations system, ensured the activation of the UK macro-sites while delivering vendor diversity and innovation.

These first live Open RAN macro-sites in Virgin Media O2’s network are possible after extensive testing at NEC and Rakuten Symphony’s labs in India and NEC’s Global Open RAN Centre of Excellence lab in Ruislip, London. The facility, equipped with state-of-the-art testing equipment, follows NEC’s design quality assurance process so that multi-vendor solutions can be efficiently integrated, tested, and validated before any field deployment.

The Virgin Media O2 Open RAN deployment aligns with the UK government’s efforts to diversify future telecom supply chains, recognising Open RAN’s importance in safeguarding security, resilience, innovation, and competition in critical national infrastructure.

Jeanie York, Chief Technology Officer at Virgin Media O2, said, “The successful activation of Virgin Media O2’s first UK macro-sites demonstrates the potential of the multi-vendor Open RAN model. We are strong believers in the power of diverse Open RAN ecosystems and in NEC, we have a partner that really shares our view. Its…

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Rakuten exposes 1.48 million sets of data to access from outside


Japanese online shopping mall operator Rakuten Inc. said Friday that a computer security problem at the group exposed 1,486,291 sets of personal and corporate information to access from the outside.

Of the affected data, managed by Rakuten, credit card subsidiary Rakuten Card Co. and e-money business Rakuten Edy Inc., at least 614 sets were accessed from abroad.

The incident pccurred because the Rakuten group failed to notice or deal with a change in the security settings of an external sales management system the group uses.

The change, which occurred as part of a system update Jan. 15, 2016, left the data accessible from the outside. The group recognized the security hole Nov. 24 this year after being warned by an external expert.

The group completed a necessary setting change by Nov. 26. Since then, no access by a third party has been confirmed, Rakuten said.

At Rakuten Card, the exposed information included the names of corporate representatives and sole proprietors who applied for business loans, amounts of outstanding loans, use of borrowed funds and data from the drivers’ licenses of guarantors.

Among other affected information were data on companies and employees that requested documents to open stores at the Rakuten cybermall and the names and telephone numbers of individuals who asked for transfers of Edy e-money when their smartphones failed.

Rakuten apologized for causing concern and problems to customers and promised to compensate for any damage stemming from misuse of exposed personal information.

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