NTT Information Sharing Laboratory Group--Opening the door to the future through the NGN--
Tadanobu Okada · NTT technical review · 2007
Review -After establishing the NGN as a pillar of its Medium-Term Management Strategy in 2004, the NTT Group is working with both the domestic and foreign information-communications industry on NGN development. As the platform network of the future, the NGN is raising very high expectations. Why all the interest in NGN at this point in time?Today, as broadband access and Internet-based services continue to expand, the network must be reconstructed from its very foundation to meet the ever-growing information-communication needs of society.This is the first and foremost reason for the NGN.Next, from a facilities point of view, the time for upgrading the entire telephone network has come.Moreover, with overseas telecommunications operators all participating in NGN development, NTT must adapt to the times and promote NGN R&D as both a world leader and a collaborative partner.Finally, from a business point of view, there is a desire to create new profit structures through the provision of broadband, Internet, and ubiquitous services.Thus, the NGN is something that we cannot do without.Photo 5. Exhibit hall.The exhibit hall at the Musashino R&D Center brings together recent R&D achievements born of round-the-clock efforts at each of NTT's three laboratory groups.Here, visitors can touch and examine actual products and solutions (about 60 items) encompassing a wide range of advanced technologies enabling them to feel for themselves NTT Group's high level of expertise in developing technology and anticipating the needs of the times.The exhibit hall is normally open to just the NTT Group, but it also welcomes children, local residents, and other groups from time to time during events such as the Musashino Cherry Blossom Festival as part of our efforts to contribute to the community.