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Nikkei Communications

August 01 2006 Issue <<Contents>>

Cover Story True colors of NGN - NTT's greatest gambit in its history NTT has started building an NGN. The connection interface will be disclosed to third parties, which will drive the communication industry in Japan to undergo a structural reform. Other carriers that are afraid of "disintermediation" are getting enraged, and MIC also indicates a preventive move. However, a failure to build its NGN is "an act of disloyalty to its users" for NTT. The company has already passed the point of no return. Communication industry starts to undergo the greatest transformation British Telecom uses API disclosure as a growth engine KDDI and Japan Telecom wait and see what NTT does first "NGN WAN" transforms enterprise networks by providing bandwidth assurance and higher security in public networks ASP services using NGN will emerge

Special report

Mystery of prefix 060 suddenly comes to the surface - Numbering policy over FMC in chaos

A new telephone prefix 060 for FMC suddenly emerged in the final report from a MIC's Study Group. For FMC, however, prefix 050 for IP telephones and prefix 090 for cell telephones are also allowed. This coverage reveals the mysterious reality that no carriers are now using prefix 060.

Strategic network study

Hawks Town (JAL Resort Sea Hawk Hotel Fukuoka)
The company integrates telephony, TV, and Internet connection into a full IP network configuration at once, improving its service for hotel rooms

Radishbo-ya Co., Ltd.
The company will start shopping service on the Internet by using KeyPlat to avoid a risk of fluctuation of users

Rakuten Securities, Inc.
The growing number of users drives the company to add an additional call center using ASP on a temporary basis before an imminent full reform

Report

MIC's IP Study Group (Study Group on a Framework for Competition Rules to Address the Transition to IP Based Networks) proposes new competition rules, delivering a smart blow to NTT

FM radio stations such as J-WAVE started delivering music programs via network

For MIC's public invitation, 181 systems are proposed for competition over the frequency bands left following abolishment of analog terrestrial TV broadcasting

NTT East and NTT West add "Hikari telephone A (ace)" to their IP telephony service "Hikari telephone" to back up the "Win FTTH 30 million Subscribers" campaign

WILLCOM releases "WILLCOM Business Package" (a combination of W-ZERO3 plus ASP service and IP-VPN) with an aim to gain new medium-small enterprise clients and improve terminal sales

Internet Initiative Japan will release a new SMF capable of remotely changing network device functions

NTT DoCoMo deploys a new strategy with new smart phone terminals


Eye-catcher/new service

NEC Data will launch a new presence product with a function of predicting the presence rate like the weather forecast

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

"We intend to start to depart from the paradigm of business centered on network infrastructures and enhance a total service with an aim to achieve a growth of 150% in three years."

Mr. Atsushi Ohashi, President, NETMARKS INC.

Latest technology that has stimulated enterprises

IMS (IP multimedia subsystem)
IMS is technical specifications that control multimedia communications using voice and video with an expectation of becoming "control tower" for NGN and FMC

The present and future of hit product

Security appliance
Security appliances are advancing from single function types to unified threat management types that incorporate quarantine and encrypted email functionality