NTT America's Network Infrastructure Helps Prepare Customers for Future Business Opportunities: IP Transit Report

By Deepika Mala, TMCnet Contributor

NTT America (News - Alert), a wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation and a global IP transit services provider, announced it is making continued progress in its ongoing infrastructure investments.

The infrastructure investments supports customer requirements for increased bandwidth and helps companies prepare for current and future business opportunities on an international basis.

NTT America's executives, building on several corporate initiatives, have contributed the company's practical experience with market leading technologies such as IPv6. Also, at several key conferences, they have also offered insights into the global demand for rich media content and high impact international geographies for business growth.

The milestone of 300 Gigabits per second of available capacity on the transpacific portion of the network has been achieved by the NTT Com Global IP Network, as a result of its investments in network infrastructure.

300 Gbps is one of the highest available capacities of any global Tier-1 network. This allows NTT America to serve growing international customer bases. Also, a cost-effective solution to meet demand for unprecedented bandwidth, speed and capacity is provided by the same.

To scale its global IP network infrastructure for leading capacity, nonstop video, power efficiency, robust IPv6 support and integrated video monitoring intelligence, NTT America also deployed Cisco's (News - Alert) ASR 9000 Series Aggregation Services Router.

Since 2001, the Global IP Network has been running both IPv4 and IPv6 worldwide. A major opportunity is presented by IPv6, to businesses that need to stay competitive on a global basis. It also allows them to take advantage of new applications in every market from entertainment to disaster response.

"As we move toward the reality of 100GigE, we continue to look ahead to determine what is on the horizon both for our network and our customers," said Michael Wheeler, vice president of the Global IP Network for NTT America. "Enabling our network infrastructure to support the highest available capacity with leading edge technology and almost unlimited IP addresses will help prepare our customers for future business opportunities and next generation products and services."

For the development and deployment of the next generation Internet, company executives spoke on critical global business and technical issues, during the beginning of 2010. Among the highlights, Michael Wheeler, vice president of the Global IP Network, NTT America, offered his perspective on the changing requirements of the Latin American end-user in the content space, specifically key services and applications driving demand and demand for interactive content, as part of the panel, "Strategies to Capitalize on the Growth of Rich-Media Content: Capacity Planning and Service Delivery," at Capacity Latin America 2010.

In addition, Shuichi Ikeda, vice president of sales and business development, Global IP Network, NTT America, joined analysts and executives on the panel, "The Internet Boom: Delivering Broadband Across Latin America."

As part of NTT America's ongoing commitment to create awareness for and adoption of IPv6, the company spoke on the topic of "IPv6 Commercial Applications" during the IPv6 Session workshop at the 29th Annual APAN (Asia-Pacific Advanced Network) Meeting.

In addition, NTT America joined IPv6 subject matter experts and leaders from around the world at PTC'10, the 32nd annual Pacific Telecommunications Council (News - Alert) conference, offering the company's perspective on the benefits of IPv6 as part of the roundtable, "IPv6--The Next Big Bail Out: Will IPv6 Save the Internet?"

Doug Junkins, CTO of NTT America and vice president of IP development for the Global IP Network Business Unit, addressed opportunities for broadcasters seeking optimal network architecture for content distribution and delivery worldwide as part of the panel, "Content Delivery, Rich Media, IPTV (News - Alert) and Internet TV Connectivity-Enabling the Connected Broadband and TV Universe" at the Digital Hollywood conference at the 2010 International CES (News - Alert).

In related news, NTT America, Inc., supports its ongoing IPv6 initiative with gold sponsorship of the Rocky Mountain IPv6 Task Force's IPv6 Summit, which will be held at the Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center from May 26 to May 27, 2010 in Denver.

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