Rakuten Symphony partnered with fiber network management firm Weezie to accelerate its global fiber network deployment.

The Japanese vendor will embed Weezie’s Fiber software platform into its network offering for an automated and scalable end-to-end alternative to manual design processes. Symphony said this would enable operators to reduce time-to-market and operational complexity across their fiber infrastructure life cycles.

Founded in 2018, Weezie is headquartered in Porto, Portugal. The firm’s automation and digitalization platform integrates planning, execution, monitoring, and management workflows, with customers including France’s TDF and ERT Technologies, and Britain’s Byon Solutions.

“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," Vivek Murthy, president of OSS at Rakuten Symphony, explained. "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.”

Rakuten Symphony recently announced a partnership with India's Lightstorm Telecom Connectivity to deliver a sovereign network-as-a-service (NaaS) platform for enterprises. The collaboration integrated Lightstorm’s Polarin NaaS platform with Rakuten Symphony’s cloud-native orchestration and infrastructure stack with an offering aimed at telecom operators and cloud providers across India, the Middle East and Africa, and the broader Asia-Pacific region.