NTT
Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the global data and IP
services arm of Fortune Global 500 telecom leader NTT (NYSE:NTT), today
announced its participation at the Capacity North America 2014
Conference taking place in San Francisco, California, September 11-12,
2014. Capacity North America is a key event for the North American
wholesale telecom community and provides a platform to top players such
as NTT Com to share insight on the trends and opportunities of the
evolving IP transit market.
Michael
Wheeler, executive vice president of NTT Communications Global IP
Network at NTT America, will join industry leaders on the keynote panel
“Co-Opetition – Exploring an Intelligent Evolution” on Thursday,
September 11th, 9:30 a.m. local time, focusing on the
challenges of creating a collaborative ecosystem that suits content and
application providers as well as carriers. The panel will also discuss
the effects of mergers, acquisitions and large-scale consolidations on
the global wholesale landscape in North America.
“Collaboration between carriers and content providers can result in
win-win opportunities for all parties involved,” says Wheeler. “Carriers
come to the table with unrivalled global infrastructure and the
expertise on how best to carry digital content over it, whereas content
providers usually prefer to focus on customer-facing technologies,” he
says. “The combination of all these resources can be mutually
beneficial.”
NTT Com is one of the top two global wholesale IP providers, according
to the latest published wholesale rankings by Renesys, an independent
research firm. For the second year running, the company took one of the
top two spots in the influential global list of leading wholesale IP
players, consolidating NTT Com’s dominance of an increasingly
competitive market and highlighting its resolve to continue investing in
new infrastructure and technology around the world.
Commenting on this performance, Wheeler says: “NTT Com continues to grow
its market share by differentiating itself on several levels. We are a
global carrier that has the worldwide network scale, the expertise and
the financial capability to support the growth of our customers; all
must-haves in the world of IP-centric businesses.” He concludes: “We
have customers that begin in North America and quickly grow their global
reach, as well as many that start in Europe and Asia and expand to North
and Latin America.”
NTT Com recently announced it
expanded its Tier-1 Global IP Network into RagingWire Data Centers’
facilities in Ashburn, Virginia, and Sacramento, California. RagingWire
is a premier carrier-neutral data center provider in the United States
and an NTT Communications group company. This expansion enables NTT Com
to further scale its offerings to Internet service providers (ISPs),
content companies, hosting, and CDN providers in these highly strategic
markets and provides RagingWire customers increased global connectivity
options in these locations.
Additionally, NTT Com was shortlisted for the Capacity
Global Carrier Awards 2014 in the categories Best Global, Best North
American and Best Asian wholesale carrier and best European project. The
awards recognize innovation, vision and excellence in the global
wholesale industry.
NTT Com is a Sponsor of Capacity North America 2014.
About NTT Communications
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 leading global tier-1 IP
network, Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196
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.
About NTT Communications Global IP Network
Consistently ranked among the top networks worldwide, NTT Com’s Tier-1 Global
IP Network covers Asia, North and South America, Europe and Oceania,
and provides the best possible environment for data and video transport
through a single autonomous system number (AS 2914). NTT Com is one of
the top two global wholesale IP providers and the number one provider in
Asia according to the Renesys Wholesale Rankings.
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