Technology Magazine April 2022 | Page 218

NTT DATA CORP
Japan , and Qualcomm Technologies – the alliance will jointly work towards promoting industrial innovations together , accelerating the development of Open RAN to help enable flexible network deployment .
" Our home market is Japan , but now we have a strong footprint in Europe , LatAm and other major markets where we are now strongly focusing on Open RAN adoption ,” Higashiyama says . “ This , along with vRAN technologies , which we are developing in partnership with Mavenir , are the prerequisites for our vision . We need to transform the legacy infrastructure into an open network .
“ We are heavily investing in cloud-native and open source-based IT infrastructure ,” Higashiyama adds . “ NTT DATA and DOCOMO are jointly developing an open source-based service management operations system . We are also developing
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