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3GPP has approved and published a set of stage 2 level specifications for the 5G system architecture

Recently, two of the open source projects DOCOMO Euro-Labs is actively working on have achieved key milestones in their project lifecycle.

In DOCOMO Euro-Labs, the new operational structure will become effective by January 1, 2018 at the latest. DOCOMO Euro-Labs, as a part of globally optimized NTT DOCOMO’s R&D, will continue to play an important role in core network standardization.

DOCOMO Communications Laboratories Europe GmbH (DOCOMO Euro-Labs), based in Munich, is being strategically refined to become the European center of competence for core network standardization. This is supposed to happen as part of the global optimization of NTT DOCOMO’s research and development activities.

Colleagues from NTT DOCOMO and DOCOMO Euro-Labs have been participating in the OPNFV Summit 2016.

NGMN published white paper on “5G prospects – key capabilities to unlock digital opportunities”

One of our employees, Dr. Mikio Iwamura, received a Certificate of Appreciation from NGMN in recognition of his invaluable contributions and dedication to the global NGMN 5G Initiative. 

We're happy to announce that DOCOMO and Ericsson successfully completed a joint Proof of Concept (PoC) of dynamic network slicing technology for 5G core networks.

The first global 5G event took place from May 31 – June 1 in Beijing, China.

On 24 May,  DOCOMO Euro-Labs' member Dr. Wolfgang Kiess is joining the "5G Architecture" industry panel organized by the IEEE International Conference on Communications held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

On March 1st, OPNFV announced the availability of OPNFV Brahmaputra, the community’s second platform release. It delivers enhanced testing capabilities, improved automation and operator required feature enhancements such as fault detection and recovery, IPv6, layer-3 VPN, resource reservation, etc.. 

OPNFV is a carrier-grade, integrated, open source platform for NFV to accelerate the introduction of new NFV products and services.

View DOCOMO's sustainability report, which aims to provide a comprehensive disclosure of information, in PDF format.

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The press release below was submitted by NTT DOCOMO, Inc.

TOKYO, JAPAN, May 27, 2014 --- NTT DOCOMO, INC., a personalized mobile solutions provider for smarter living, announced today that working separately with three different world-leading vendors — Alcatel-Lucent, Cisco and NEC — it has completed proof-of-concept (PoC) trials verifying the feasibility of network functions virtualization (NFV).

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The SASER (Safe & Secure European Routing)  is a Public-Private Partnership project of 58 companies including DOCOMO Euro-Labs, research organizations, and universities from all over Europe.

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The press release below was submitted by NTT DOCOMO, Inc.
 
Press Release
May 08, 2014

The MEDIEVAL (MultimEDia transport for mobile Video AppLications) project, a 3 year project partially funded by the EU under the STREP umbrella has received an excellent feedback for its final audit in October 2013.

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The press release below was submitted by METIS, an EU research project for which DOCOMO Euro-labs is one of the partner contributors.

Press Release
September 5th 2013

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From today a selection of patents can be found on the website docomolab-euro.com. Patents can be can be filtered by any keyword and an entry can be exported with one click - using the common BibTeX format.

TOKYO, JAPAN, February 19, 2013 --- NTT DOCOMO, INC., Japan’s leading mobile operator and provider of integrated services centered on mobility, announced today that subscribers to Xi™ (pronounced “crossy”), the company’s extra-high-speed LTE mobile service offering a maximum downlink of 100 Mbps, surpassed ten million on February 18.

NTT DOCOMO today announced that it will exhibit a variety of mobile products, services and technologies, including NFC international roaming and High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC), a new global standard for video compression, at the GSMA Mobile World Congress 2013 in Barcelona, Spain from February 25 to 28.

Congratulations to our CSO, Dr. Hendrik Berndt for his recent election as a WWRF Vice President Europe/Middle East/ Africa. Below you can find a press release published by WWRF of its current activities.

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The press release below was submitted by METIS, an EU research project for which DOCOMO Euro-labs is one of the partner contributors.
 
Press Release EU
November 27th 2012