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August 15 2006 Issue <<Contents>>

Cover Story Let's check five categories of bargain network products and services to find out to what an extent they are useful Network products and services whose selling points are dirt-cheap prices are beginning to emerge. It seems premature to ignore them because they are "inferior due to their cheap prices." Instead, pioneer users have started to already adopt these "dirt-cheap commercial products" as major players in their networks. IP telephony: Asterisk versus IP-PBX Asterisk products for large corporations are about to appear WAN: Entry VPN versus IP-VPN/Wide-area Ethernet The number of main business networks adopting Entry VPN is surging Access line: B FLET’S (FTTH) versus dedicated lines Some companies use B FLET’S for their headquarters and major sites Mobile: W-ZERO3 versus laptop PCs W-ZERO3 products have a better security function than laptop PCs Video communications: Skype Video versus video conference devices Business use of Skype Video has appeared: Will it become a threat to non-free products?

Special report

MIC and the telecom industry are laying groundwork for prompting cell carriers to open their facilities to MVNO

MIC will modify and unveil the MVNO guideline that promotes "MVNO" (Mobile Virtual Network Operator) businesses as early as this autumn. There are, however, a mountain of problems such as resistance from cell carriers against mechanisms for opening networks and the difficulty of calculating tariffs due to "sales incentives."

Strategic network study

ART CORPORATION
The company renews its network with Entry VPN, IP-VPN, and Internet VPN, and by installing IP teleconference and its own IP extension network at the major sites

Toyokuni Electric Cable Co., Ltd.
The company installs devices for making WAN faster in its sites to which optical access cannot be deployed, and achieves up to about 80% traffic reduction

Nippon Steel Chemical Co., Ltd.
The company distributes an N900iL and a laptop PC to each of the employees at its headquarters to enable them to work anywhere without their own desks

Report

NTT's NGN interface is still "developing"

The emergency earthquake flash report system fully starts operating with a succession of related products and services available

Public wireless LAN finds its way into non-PC terminals with an expectation of growing demand for use for game consoles

IBM Japan commits itself to NGN solutions

"Cell phone vendors must accept risk" - Report by MIC

Intel is approaching vigorously to carriers to improve the value of PCs with communication services

The world CDMA market slows down and SONET/SDH devices mark a low growth - Dell' Oro survey


Eye-catcher/new service

NTTPC Communications automates the settings of VPN routers, enabling free installation by users

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

"We do not have any valid countermeasures against spear phishing attacks."

Mr. Nobuo Miwa, President, LAC (Little eArth Corporation Co., Ltd.)

Latest technology that has stimulated enterprises

Windows Mobile
Windows Mobile is a "Windows" dedicated to cell phones whose greatest weapon is its high affinity with personal computers

The present and future of hit service

ASP services
Software vendors start entering into the ASP service operation, putting aside their traditional license-based business model