Movandi and Rakuten Mobile partners to expand network coverage
5G mmWave has been marketed as a high-speed, low-latency network. In spite of the bar set by it, companies like Rakuten Mobile are trying to deliver the world’s fastest multi-gigabit cellular speeds and low latency connectivity.
Founded in 2016, Movandi has 90 patents filed and 74 patents issued optimizing RF chipset performance, size and power efficiency, and dynamic beam forming and beam steering using intelligent algorithms, software and cloud AI and ML. Its powered smart repeaters and technology is now being used to expand 5G network coverage in Japan.
It has partnered with Rakuten Mobile to expand 5G outdoor and indoor mmWave network coverage and capacity in Japan by using Movandi’s smart repeater and BeamXR Open-RAN technology. Rakuten Mobile’s 5G mmWave signals provide better coverage while cutting mmore than half of the infrastructure cost.
Tareq Amin, CEO at Rakuten Mobile said, “Rakuten Mobile is thrilled to partner with Movandi, a disruptive innovator. We’ve been much impressed with their core 5G mmWave technology that enables us to extend and deploy our 5G network in Japan cost effectively.”
Maryam Rofougaran, CEO and co-founder of Movandi added, “Our investments and more than 78 issued patents in chipsets, phased-array MIMO antennas and software have positioned Movandi as the industry’s leading 5G mmWave innovator. Rakuten Mobile is very selective in its choice of partners, so their choice of our technologies is a testament to our unique approach of purpose-built silicon, antennas and software with advanced AI, mesh capabilities and cloud control resulting in significant savings in deployment costs.”
With his 5G architecture by Movandi that dramatically improves the way repeater-based systems are designed and fabricated while cutting deployment costs in half, the solutions offered by this partnership are expected to be sent in India soon after deploying them in Japan first.
