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Nikkei Communications

June 01 2006 Issue <<Contents>>

Cover Story Trends of enterprise networks can be seen in the courses that 30 industrial leading companies are taking Now that enterprise networks are fully developed for the time being and cost reduction efforts have reached their limit, we wonder where enterprise networks are heading.  Our thorough research on 30 industrial leading companies revealed that the departments in charge of network made decisions that defy the traditional common practices. Tokyo Gas, trying to make a comeback Now, this is the chance to change our system department 30 companies pay close attention to business improvements with "N900iL" A new frontier opened by Olympus Using B FLET’S  for the mission-critical network Thin clients are about to operate PCs will disappear from offices Internal efforts to create a self-made quarantine system

Special report

NEC's unwavering resolve aimed at NGN

Mr. Kaoru Yano, President and CEO of NEC, clearly explained the purpose of the company's organizational reform that was carried out on April 1st, saying that "NEC must become an organization that is capable of implementing the fusion of IT and network." 
The keyword is “NGN (Next Generation Network)”, whose whole picture nobody has ever seen yet.

Strategic network study

PARK 24 has made its 6000 parking lots online with an aim to improve its capacity-usage ratio and management efficiency through IT arming

Mitsui Leasing & Development leverages a video teleconference system as a tool for an integrated group management

Kanagawa Institute of Technology has enabled “wallet cell phones” to work as student ID cards and take attendance in real time

Report

Recent continual failures in NTT West reveal "weak points" of the IP telephony service

Real intentions of NEC are caught through its strategic alliance with MS

NTT Communications to provide a new VPN service that produces a VPN for each department

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications frowns on Plala's control over Winny

"We intend to promote our CSF in cooperation with Japanese manufacturers" – Microsoft representative says with enthusiasm

With realities of number portability finally known, cell phone carriers struggle to simplify sign-up procedures

Cell phones find new demand in PC contents


Eye-catcher/new service

UNIADEX develops BREW development environment for KDDI’s new wireless LAN cell phones

Editor-in-Chief's Interview

Mr. Kaoru Yano
President & CEO, NEC Corporation

"NGN will also transform enterprise networks."

Latest technology that has stimulated enterprises

Instant Messenger (IM)
IM promptly understands the status of the other party and becomes a starting point for information sharing in conjunction with PBX

The present and future of hit product

Web browsers
Evolving from "web page display" to an infrastructure of applications