en.Wedoany.com Reported - On April 24, Rakuten Symphony and Celona announced a partnership to jointly develop private 5G solutions built on an end-to-end open RAN architecture. This collaboration integrates Rakuten Symphony's compact, enterprise-grade cloud-native 5G open RAN infrastructure with Celona's 5G LAN enterprise platform, aiming to meet the growing demand of medium and large enterprises for flexible, reliable, and low total cost of ownership private networks during their digital transformation. Anirban Chakravartti, Senior Vice President and Global Head of Enterprise Sales at Rakuten Symphony, stated that the company will remove deployment barriers to achieve flexibility and future-proof networks to support evolving IoT and mission-critical use cases, allowing enterprises to focus on their core operations.
The two companies clarified that the joint solution is designed based on O-RAN specifications, can work across different spectrum bands, and provides users with flexible choices of radio equipment vendors. This means enterprises are not locked into a single hardware vendor's ecosystem and can select different radio units based on their actual coverage needs, spectrum resources, and budget. The pre-integrated and validated design allows for an out-of-the-box deployment, cutting deployment time by approximately 50% compared to traditional private 5G projects. This enables faster and more seamless implementation in a wide range of industries such as global logistics, manufacturing, agriculture, ports, and mining, accelerating enterprise returns on investment.
Rakuten Symphony has been continuously strengthening its footprint in the enterprise-grade private 5G market in recent years. At the Mobile World Congress Barcelona in February 2026, the company launched portable private 5G solutions meeting industrial-grade needs and compact solutions for branches and SMEs, further expanding its product matrix from edge to core. Celona, in April 2026, released its Aerloc 2.0 series, specifically designed for demanding industrial environments like mines and ports where fiber optics and perfect power conditions are unavailable, enhancing the adaptability of its 5G LAN platform in extreme scenarios. Punito Shetty, Senior Vice President of Product and Field Engineering at Celona, noted that this partnership will expand the range of industrial fields that both companies serve, helping large, asset-intensive enterprises obtain open, interoperable networks, preparing them for the needs of AI-driven future automation.
According to the collaboration plan, the joint solution will first launch in the North American market in the summer of 2026, before expanding to some markets in Europe and Asia Pacific by the end of 2026. Industry analysis data indicates that the global private 5G market size is expected to grow from approximately $7.2 billion in 2026 to over $18 billion by 2030, with a compound annual growth rate exceeding 25%. The inherent advantages of enterprise-built 5G networks in deterministic latency, data sovereignty, and customized coverage are driving industries such as manufacturing, logistics, and mining to accelerate their migration from Wi-Fi and wired Ethernet to private 5G. The introduction of the open RAN architecture further lowers the barriers and long-term ownership costs of this migration.
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