Rakuten Symphony partners with Weezie to accelerate global fibre network deployment

• Accelerates fiber network design and plan automation at scale: Automation-first capabilities reduce time-to-market and operational complexity.
• End-to-end operational efficiency: Rakuten Symphony’s automation and orchestration platform enables centralized visibility, intelligent automation and simplified management of large and complex fiber networks.
• Future-ready digital infrastructure: Reinforces Rakuten Symphony’s ecosystem strategy, delivering best-in-class technology to support next-generation broadband and digital services worldwide.

Tokyo, Japan – Rakuten Symphony, Inc. today announced a strategic partnership with Weezie, a fiber network management software company specializing in fiber network design and management for large-scale fiber deployments. Through this partnership, Rakuten Symphony will integrate Weezie’s fiber network design and plan capabilities into its fiber network offering, enabling operators and enterprises to plan, design, deploy, operate and scale fiber networks faster and more efficiently.

“As global demand for high-speed broadband continues to grow, fiber network operators face increasing pressure to roll out infrastructure rapidly while controlling costs and maintaining operational excellence,” said Vivek Murthy, President of OSS at Rakuten Symphony. “This strategic partnership solves these challenges by bringing together our proven network expertise, automation and orchestration platform, global market reach and ecosystem-driven approach with Weezie’s purpose-built design and plan product designed specifically for fiber network operations.”

By embedding Weezie into its fiber network offering, Rakuten Symphony will provide customers with a more complete, scalable and operationally efficient solution, eliminating the need to develop complex automation capabilities internally and enabling faster network expansion from day one.

“Fiber networks are critical to digital transformation, and this strategic partnership will enable operators and enterprises to deploy and operate fiber infrastructure faster, more efficiently and with greater confidence” said João Guedes, CEO and Founder of Weezie. “With Rakuten Symphony’s global scale, proven orchestration and automation platform, operational expertise and powerful ecosystem approach, we are creating a solution that allows fiber network operators to operate smarter and scale their networks with automation at the core.”

Weezie’s fiber network design and plan product is designed to plan for large, complex fiber networks that reduce manual processes and operational risk. Combined with Rakuten Symphony’s network solutions portfolio, the partnership supports a wide range of use cases, including telecommunications operators, ISPs, enterprise networks and wholesale fiber providers.