Rakuten likely to take over India’s Innoeye

As per news report, the subsidiary of Japanese e-commerce company – Rakuten, Rakuten Mobile is acquiring Virginia based engineering firm Innoeye. The financial terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Both the companies have been working together for many years. The Japanese company has deployed Innoeye’s end-to-end platform process automation solution, converged OSS, to build and support a new cloud platform for its 4G/5G network launch in Japan.

The sources said, Rakuten Mobile as a part of its latest offering intends to come up with Rakuten Communications Platform (RCP). The technology will be available for telcos and enterprise customers across the globe in the near future. RCP will feature an app-store-like interface where customers can modify the platform to suit their local requirements.

Combining the tech blueprint and expert playbook of the industry’s first cloud-native mobile network built by Rakuten Mobile and its partners, RCP serves as an easy way for telcos and enterprises to design and deploy fully cloud-native network services faster and at low cost.

RCP includes all the elements of the Rakuten Mobile Network which includes telecom software and applications from multiple vendors, virtual network and edge computing management systems, and BSS and OSS systems handling, customer billing and activation systems.

“Innoeye is thrilled to be a part of the Rakuten Mobile family and the collaboration enables Innoeye to create a highly-innovative cloud-based communications platform that is open, secure, and scalable,” noted Innoeye CEO Rajeev Gupta in the release.

It is expected that RCP will further led the next level of innovation, offering telecom operators a faster and cost-effective deployment of fully cloud-native network services, Gupta said.