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Look at the forefront of NGN whose trial enters the last phase towards commercialization

Since the end of April, the NGN field trial by NTT has entered the experiment phase targeted at general users that is meant for the last phase. How are those involved in NGN approaching it, such as telecommunication carriers that speed up building NGN, network administrator for companies that try to use NGN, and the periphery vendors that look for business using NGN, in their respective area? Now that there is only less than one year left until a commercial service is launched, this article pursues the forefront of NGN.

Field trial

For households: 500 households try the NGN service

For companies: Line authentication and others such as QoS function are actively used in business

Roadmap

NTT applies for tariffs and commercializes NGN services next March

Questionnaire

Enterprise network administrators look to reliability, 10G wide-area Ethernet, and line authentication

User round-table talks

We want network that is optimized for a selected application

True voices from Olympus, kabu.com Securities, and Tokyu Construction

Application development

The key is how to leverage network functions within NGN

Interfaces will be opened so that they may be available to general applications

Latest technology that has stimulated enterprises

Report from COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2007

While WiMAX related products have already started to emerge, the main wireless LAN products compliant with 802.11n support 40MHz bandwidth

In COMPUTEX TAIPEI 2007, Asia's greatest ICT related exhibition, exhibits of network related equipment stand close side by side. Mobile WiMAX related equipment is appearing, and IEEE 802.11n compliant products are entering the mainstream of wireless LAN equipment.