NTT (News - Alert) America’s parent company NTT Communications Corp. has selected a “Policy Traffic Switch” from Sandvine (News - Alert), to be used for a nationwide deployment on its high-speed network.
A Japanese provider of global networks, management technology and ICT services, NTT Communications (News - Alert) is known for high-quality security, hosting, voice, data and IP services, as well as expertise in managed networks and leadership in iPv6 transit technology.
According to Sandvine, the latest win builds on NTT Communications’ purchases in previous periods. Sandvine’s PTS platform is designed to provide a layer of intelligence into broadband and wireless networks offering operators meaningful business-level information for market creation, quota management and capacity planning.
“We are delighted to be selected by NTT Communications after a rigorous technical review,” Dave Caputo, president and CEO, Sandvine. “Our platform and applications were tried and tested to ensure they meet the usage demands of close to eight million subscribers on NTT Communications’ network-another demonstration that Sandvine offers the most proven high-performance platform available today.”
Sandvine’s PTS platform scales to meet the demands of the world’s largest service providers’ networks with unique virtual switch cluster technology.
At the recent PTC’10 conference in Hawaii, Cody Christman (News - Alert), NTT America’s director of product engineering, offered his perspective on the benefits of IPv6 during the roundtable “IPv6 --The Next Big Bail Out: Will IPv6 Save the Internet?”
During the IPv6 roundtable, panelists discussed the ways cloud computing and converged communications applications are continuously being created on IP, and the finite number of IPv4 addresses presents a serious challenge.
IPv6 offers a variety of benefits for companies implementing cloud initiatives, including an almost infinite address space, scalability, better security, lower capital and operational expense and a number of enhancements for multicast and quality of service support.
“As more and more business applications are being created on IP, security and performance are major issues,” Christman told TMCnet. “Not to mention the fact that IPv4 addresses are dwindling.”
IPv6 will meet the Internet’s long-term requirements -- restoration of the Internet end-to-end model, infinite address space and many other benefits.
“In addition, as IPv6 deployment is accelerating globally, countries with larger populations and smaller IP address pool allocations will soon access the Internet via IPv6 only,” Christman said. “IPv6 will be critical when it comes to maintaining Internet connectivity and business continuity with global partners.”
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