NTT
Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the information and
communications technology (ICT) solutions business within NTT
(NYSE: NTT), today announced Light Reading’s Big
Telecom Event (BTE) will feature two executive speakers from the
company’s U.S. subsidiary, NTT
America. In a Service Providers in Action spotlight, Doug Junkins,
NTT America’s CTO, will discuss enterprises’ leverage of NTT Com’s first
mover advantage in commercialization of NFV-enabled services on a global
scale; address delivery of the most advanced integrated cloud- and
SDN-based network offering worldwide; and speak to NTT Com’s continued
commitment to enhance its enterprise solutions internationally. NTT
America Senior Director of Technology Services Rob Schrage will also
participate as a featured speaker at BTE, joining a panel discussion on
telecommunications and data centers in the time of SDN/NFV innovation.
The BTE will be held June 17-18, 2014, at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel &
Towers in Chicago, IL.
In late May of this year, NTT Com achieved a global industry-first mover
advantage with the launch of commercialized
NFV services – initially cloud-based – on a global scale, powered by
the January 2014 acquisition of Virtela Technology Services
Incorporated. NTT Com added four new, on-demand cloud services including
SSL VPN, IPsec VPN Gateway, Firewall and Application Acceleration – to
the company’s enterprise network services portfolio. These new services,
enabled through NTT Com’s pioneering work in NFV, accelerate delivery of
IT services for enterprises and reduce the costs of enterprise
networking. NTT Com’s SDN-based customer portal allows for real-time,
instant, self-service provisioning of the new services with
drag-and-drop icons, and clients can pay-per-use. This comprehensive
suite of new services is delivered out of 50 global data center
locations, offering both proximity and the ease of one-stop shopping for
NTT Com’s enterprise clients.
The BTE will feature Mr. Junkins in the session titled “Virtualization
Innovation: Service Providers in Action” on Tuesday, June 17 at 10
a.m., during which he will share insight into how the transition to
SDN/NFV is like and unlike previous technology transitions, and how
SDN/NFV represent unique possibilities for innovation/service
differentiation, as well as the biggest industry challenges to SDN/NFV
deployment. Highlighting NTT Com’s momentum in expanding its global
enterprise network services portfolio with NFV solutions, Mr. Junkins
will discuss the leading role service providers play in driving SDN/NFV
deployment. Additionally and on the Network
Operations & Orchestration Challenges panel, scheduled for
Wednesday, June 18 at 3:45 p.m., Mr. Junkins will explore operational
challenges in implementing SDN/NFV, the different layers of
orchestration involved, and how new operational requirements can and
will coexist with traditional OSS.
As a BTE panelist on Telco
Data centers in the SDN/NFV Era, scheduled for Wednesday, June 18 at
2:30 p.m., Mr. Schrage will address why network operators like NTT Com
have been investing in data center technology for years to support
advanced services and how data centers are becoming increasingly
strategic, as they are used to deliver applications, content/video, and
cloud-based services worldwide. With the advent of NFV and the
transformation of data centers to SDN architectures, Mr. Schrage will
explore how these valuable assets will become more agile and flexible in
response to a rapidly changing competitive environment. In addition, he
will discuss how the data center will evolve into an SDN/NFV virtualized
telecom data center, focusing on business and technology drivers, as
well as implementation of best-practices and principles.
“SDN/NFV are some of the most important communications technologies
developed to date,” said Carol Wilson, event chair for the BTE. “These
innovations will allow enterprise clients to improve productivity and
cut costs, and their applications will make significant impacts across
multiple sectors. As representatives of one of the most visionary
communications service providers in the world, we are delighted to have
Mr. Junkins and Mr. Schrage speak at the BTE and enlighten our attendees
on the market impact of SDN/NFV from NTT Com’s position as the front
runner in these game-changing technologies.”
Light
Reading, in partnership with leading industry organizations
including SDN pioneer the Open Networking Foundation (ONF), has devised
the BTE, an industry first event, to bridge the gap in the telecom
industry between technology know how and business acumen. NTT Com is a
board member of the ONF and actively supports the organization’s mission
to accelerate the adoption of open SDN.
The BTE comprises a best-in-class conference with show floor
demonstrations of networking technologies and applications that deliver
real insight and tangible value to attendees. The BTE will be a single
big-tent event that aggregates all the hottest areas across the
telecom industry – including SDN/NFV and the carrier cloud,
Ethernet, telco data centers, service orchestration, packet-optical
transport, mobile backhaul, mobile network security, 4G/small cells,
service provider IT, content management, and business services.
About NTT Communications Corporation
NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and
cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology
(ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the
company’s worldwide infrastructure, including IPv4/IPv6 Global Tier-1 IP
Network, Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching more than 190
countries/regions, and over 150 secure data centers. NTT Communications’
solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including
Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
www.ntt.com
| Twitter@NTT
Communications | Facebook@NTT
Communications | LinkedIn@NTT
For U.S. product and service information, please visit www.us.ntt.com.
NTT, NTT Communications, and the NTT Communications logo are registered
trademarks or trademarks of NIPPON TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE CORPORATION
and/or its affiliates. All other referenced product names are trademarks
of their respective owners. © 2014 NTT Communications
Copyright Business Wire 2014