Distinguished Researcher, NTT Network Innovation Center. He is a PTL of Tacker from Victoria cyclea, and a maintainer of tosca-parser and heat-translator. He joined NTT in 2003. His research interests include distributed systems, network virtualization, and network architectures.

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O-RAN Lifecycle Management on OpenStack Tacker

OpenStack resolves many challenges even in container era and RAN. Tacker is contributing telecom usecase to O-RAN SC which is a collaboration between the O-RAN ALLIANCE and Linux Foundation aiming to achieve a solution to unify and accelerate the evolution in the RAN. Tacker is designed for managing lifecycle of RAN components and enables user to deploy network functions on OpenStack or Kubernetes for scalability and availability. In O-RAN SC model, Tacker manages network functions with StarlingX for autonomous deployment.

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