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NEC, NTT Docomo Open RAN venture names COO for global scale out
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Orex Sai appointed Kenichi Takai as its representative director and COO.
Key facts
- Launched in 2023, Orex Sai is NEC and Docomo’s bid for full-scale global deployment of open RAN services based around the latter’s Orex platform
- Singapore-based RAN company SynaXG was added to the list this year when it announced a partnership with Orex Sai and Red Hat, demonstrating one of the industry’s earliest implementations of a unified
- Orex Sai appointed Kenichi Takai as its representative director and COO
- As part of the demo, SynaXG used its complete AI-RAN software stack, including layer-one, layer-two, and layer-three microservices on Red Hat’s OpenShift cloud-native platform
Summary
Takai joins the joint open radio access network (RAN) venture between NTT Docomo and NEC from a managing director role at the latter. In a LinkedIn post, Orex Sai said Takai has more than three decades of experience at NEC, spanning the development and commercialization of mobile networks from 2G to 5G. Kenichi will oversee Orex Sai's sales and network services divisions and play a key role in accelerating its global growth plans. Launched in 2023, Orex Sai is NEC and Docomo’s bid for full-scale global deployment of open RAN services based around the latter’s Orex platform. Singapore-based RAN company SynaXG was added to the list this year when it announced a partnership with Orex Sai and Red Hat, demonstrating one of the industry’s earliest implementations of a unified cloud-native platform AI-augmented RAN (AI-RAN).