Telecom Lead Asia: NTT Communications of Japan has selected Alcatel-Lucent’s Edge Router systems to improve speed, performance and cost-efficiency within in its VPN enterprise services.
NTT Com will introduce Alcatel-Lucent’s Multi-service Edge Router, the 7750 Service Router (7750 SR) as part of business services available in Japan and worldwide.
The move to a single, converged IP infrastructure provided by Alcatel-Lucent will streamline network management, cut the cost of network operations and help lower NTT Com’s operational expenditure through a measurable decrease in energy consumption.
NTT Com’s operating expenditure in six months ending September 2013 was 522.721 billion yen, decreasing 2.5 percent comparing with the same period last fiscal.
Alcatel-Lucent’s 7750 Service Router supports platform capacities ranging from 40Gb/s to 2Tb/s, and has a processing structure adapted to the carrier’s service, quality-of-service provision, and a wide range of protocols and interfaces such as Ethernet and multi-service.
NTT Com Group, which owns a number of brands for delivering IP-based services, has reported 0.9 percent decrease in 6-months revenue in FY 2012-13 to 587.535 billion yen. Its profit increased 13.8 percent to 64.814 billion yen.
Its three largest brands, OCN, Plala and goo, account for over 10 million customers. OCN, Japan’s top-shared fiber-based Internet service provider, had 8.437 million subscribers as of March 2012.
Hiroshi Sono, director of Technology, Network Services division of NTT Com, said: “In 2010 we deployed Alcatel-Lucent’s service routers in the network that serves our international business customers, so the transformation of our network in Japan is a natural progression in this successful collaboration.”
NTT Communications operates a Global Tier 1 IP Backbone spanning Asia-Pacific, North America, and Europe. It is possible to directly connect to this backbone using the IPv6 protocol. Two types of services, IPv6 native and IPv4/IPv6 dual stack are available.
