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Nikkei Communications


October 15 2006 Issue <<Contents>>

Cover Story
No time to waste in preparing for Japanese SOX act: Prices of security products and services indispensable for internal control

Products and services that advocate internal control are appearing in succession. As costs for internal control are often estimated on an individual basis, however, enterprise users must know the price mechanism of such products and services to make efficient investment. This article uncovers the prices of security products and services essential for internal control at once.


ID/access control: Cost may be increased depending on existing systems

Operation log management: Installation cost is determined by the number of clients to be managed

Client management: Quarantine networks cost several million yen

Server/network management: Once you aim for entire monitoring, it will increase cost

Mail audit: The numbers of terminals and persons in charge of mail audit determine prices

File transmission management: ASP types that charge based on the number of IDs are main

Cover Story Special Report

Mobile number portability is a blasting fuse that sets off a great competition in the market of corporate cellular phones

At last, the mobile number portability service will start that enable users to continue to use their current numbers after they change cell phone carriers. Individual users, however, are slow to respond to the service. Three major cell phone carriers find the business opportunity in the fast-growing corporate market.


Cover Story Special Report

History of "Takenaka Communication Reform" that gets to the second reorganization of NTT from the viewpoint of the fusion of communications and broadcasting

Mr. Heizo Takenaka retired from the center of the political stage on September 26. This article reflects on the agenda in one year of Tanaka Reform such as the NTT's second reorganization in 2010, the acceptance of NHK's penetration into the Internet, and the fundamental review of the legal system in the communication and broadcasting fields.


Report

Incident of NTT East "Hikari Telephony" uncovers the company's lack of experience in IP telephony

SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp. sails out relying on Yahoo!

CEATEC displays a full array of PLC equipment, just before the ban on them is lifted

SOFTBANK TELECOM Corp. moves vigorously to CATV carriers

"We want to crumble the fixed idea that 'when it comes to wireless LAN, the company must be Cisco'" - A new president in the Japanese arm of Meru Networks, Inc.


Eye-catcher/new service

LAC launches a Web application source code checking service to improve security with one-digit smaller cost than that of black box checking


Editor-in-Chief's Interview

"Networks must be 'foolishly honest and simple.'"

Mr. Vinton G. Cerf, Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist, Google Inc.


Strategic network study

Nomura Securities Co., Ltd.

The company centrally controls all its call centers through an IP telephony network to fortify interaction with its stores with an aim to improve business efficiency

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