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July 15 2006 Issue <<Contents>>

Cover Story Do as many as 70 percent of companies prohibit their employees from taking out PC? - Remote access building techniques that will not be undermined by information leakage The strong brakes are being applied to building of a remote access environment that enables employees to connect to a network in their company from outside of their offices.  Lately, however, devices and services that embed functions to prevent information leakage are appearing in succession.  It is too early to give up on having remote access. Master new products and services that are powered by information leakage preventives Major players change: IPsec to SSL-VPN Not just users! – Terminals, too, must be identified Do not only rely on authentication systems - Protect information in cooperation and combination with LAN

Special report

Fully unveil KDDI "E02SA" that moves mobile centrex into the 2nd phase

KDDI will ship dual mode terminals, "E02SA," in July that work as both cell phones and wireless LAN terminals.  Having developed the most of telephone functions with BREW and implementing the latest wireless LAN technology, the company is all ready to break into the market developed by NTT DoCoMo’s "N900iL".

Strategic network study

FamilyMart Co., Ltd.
The company will connect all of its 7000 stores through broadband to deliver a large volume of data at once via IPv6

ASAI Group
The group implements an inventory control system with N900iL by leveraging the QR code read function built in the terminal

NEO Index Corporation
The company uses relay servers for content delivery to reduce network load for its new VOD service

Report

Microsoft Inc. breaks into the IP-PBX market with its next LCS

NTT group starts to concentrate its corporate sales corps into NTT Communications as early as August

Hitachi will reorganize its network-related affiliate companies with an aim to improve its product planning ability

Cisco takes aim at the ubiquitous computing market - Cisco Networkers 2006

"In the age of NGN, good operability is the decisive factor" - Masahiko Yamamoto, New President & CEO, NEC Networks & System Integration Corporation

New wireless IP telephone sets, powered by browsers and 050 numbers, will get closer to the functionality of cell phones


New technology

NEC develops middleware for improving communication quality of IP telephony, with a plan to embed it in its softphone this autumn

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

"I am absolutely sure that IEEE 802.20 will be selected as a candidate method for wide-area wireless broadband services in 2.5GHz band."

Mr. Jun Yamada, President & CEO, QUALCOMM JAPAN INC.

Latest technology that has stimulated enterprises

MediaFLO
Multimedia broadcasting service for cell phones that provides a combination of multi-channel streaming broadcasting and storage-type broadcasting

The present and future of hit service

Data center
Data centers are shifting its focus from leasing space to providing utility type of services