NTT America (News - Alert) has announced that the NTT Com Global IP Network has reached 300 Gigabits per second of available capacity on the transpacific portion of the network.
The company said that it’s the highest available capacity of any global Tier-1 network that serves international customer bases, and it’s providing a cost-effective solution to meet demand for “unprecedented” bandwidth speed and capacity.
NTT America is a U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications (News - Alert) Corp. and a global IP network services provider. Through its Global Tier-1 IP Backbone Network, the company directly connects telecommunications companies, Internet service providers, content providers, content delivery networks and enterprises to major markets around the world.
By using three cable systems -- PC-1, Tyco Global Network and Japan-U.S. -- NTT America provides the shortest path for transpacific Internet traffic, said company officials. In addition, the company also enables increased capacity while maintaining the performance of the NTT Com Global IP Network.
The performance and quality of the network has become a “strategic imperative” for content providers and CDNs due to the growing customer demand for new content and services over the Internet.
Company officials said that they support this demand by shaping IP transit bandwidth up to 10Gbps, delivered over both the current Internet protocol (IPv4) and the next-generation Internet protocol (IPv6).
Additionally, NTT America provides dedicated access to the global Internet, the service level agreements (SLAs) and over 1Tbps of peering capacity globally for content providers and CDNs. Company officials said that content providers and CDNs can control network communications costs, consolidate services onto a common infrastructure and allow for more customized services for consumers.
Company officials said that the increased bandwidth will benefit customers connecting through point of presence locations on the NTT Communications Global IP Network backbone in the United States, Europe and Asia Pacific.
“Our continued investment in our network infrastructure is a priority that keeps us ahead of the curve when it comes to providing our customers with flexible, cost-effective and high performance solutions to meet their bandwidth needs,” said Doug Junkins, CTO at NTT America, in a press release.
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