April 15, 2008

Cover Story 1

Keeping a public promise on the service starting date at all cost, commercial NGN takes off without full preparations

NTT East and NTT West have finally started to provide their respective NGN services. They have kept their public pledge of "Start NGN service within fiscal 2007," which was declared in their respective midterm management strategies, at the 11th hour. However, the truth is that what they offer is limited to the services already available to the current regional IP networks. Although NGN has not fully revealed its strength yet, it will prove its worth around 2009 as the service areas expand.

Still far from ideal

In 2008, service improvements expected to be modest

Priority given to setting functions in place comparable to those of regional IP networks

Momentum of diffusion will gather in spring 2009

Biggest users of NGN expected to be On-demand VPN and SaaS

Cover Story 2

Green IT for network administrators - can no longer be ignored

"Green IT" is the concept of controlling power consumption by IT equipment. Even network administrators in user companies can no longer ignore it. As the power consumption of network equipment is expected to increase 13 times in 20 years, its reduction must be achieved. Approaches to cutting down the power consumption of servers and personal computers are also required.

Inside

The bottom of bandwidth control by ISP

In reality, a little less than 40 percent of ISPs control bandwidth, which will fully start in the wake of a completed guideline

ISPs have been adopting bandwidth control measures to counter the soaring traffic on the Internet. As a result of the industry’s unified effort to clear legal issues, the guideline has come near completion.

Report

Softbank launches an Internet machine to transform a regular cellphone to an Internet terminal

Actual measurement of a new PLC modem capable of a physical rate of 210 megabit/sec shows the maximum of its effective rates at 65.7 Mbit/sec

Details of an NGN edge router reveal the secrets of providing a high-speed processing of 10 Gigabit/sec and complicated service control at the same time

Mr. Takeshi Natsuno will leave NTT DoCoMo at the end of April to change his career course towards the content industry

Higher rates driven by the development of HSDPA back up the spread of mobile thin clients

ACCA Networks' management problem flares up again, caused by vehement protests against share buyback from the top shareholder eAccess

The energy saving law will apply its electric power saving standard to LAN switches as early as this summer

NTTPC Communications will start to provide a service that enables data communications with FOMA to be used at fixed IP addresses

MIC adds new MVNO promotion measures, making some requests such as MNO's setting up a single contact point

Telecom watch

Impact of Google's entrance into cellphone market - Extra: The auction develops as Google expects

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

"Our biggest goal is to deploy a mobile WiMAX network into every corner of Japan. We intend to tap a new market with new types of terminals as well as mobile WiMAX"

Mr. Takashi Tanaka, President & CEO, UQ Communications Inc.