I am an engineer of the virtualization platform group of the core network development department in NTT DOCOMO. I am designing the operation of the EPC, 5G core, IMS, other core network function and radio network using NFV specification, and developing MANO for commercial mobile systems.

- I developed OSS in DOCOMO to support operation of 2G/3G/4G core and radio network function by 2010.

- I developed MANO in DOCOMO to virtualized EPC and IMS network by 2015.

- I was bridge of development and ETSI NFV standard by 2020. I was rapporteur of SOL002 and SOL014 in ETSI NFV.

- I am bridge of development of virtualization platform for core and radio, standard of ETSI NFV and O-RAN WG6, and OpenStack Tacker now.

- I am ETSI NFV SOL WG Chair since Sep 2023.

Presentations

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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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