TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications provider within NTT (NYSE:NTT), today unveiled the industry’s first suite of cloud-based network services that can be instantly activated online, accelerating service delivery and reducing the costs of enterprise networking. With these cloud-based network services, NTT Com now delivers the most advanced integrated cloud-based networking offering worldwide.
The new services are powered by Virtela Technology Services Incorporated (Virtela), acquired by NTT Com in January 2014. Virtela is a leader in global cloud-based networking, enabling enterprise transition to asset-light branch office networking via innovative NFV-enabled services delivered from Virtela’s global SDN platform.
Offered via a pay-per-use model, the services eliminate traditional long-term contract commitments. Leveraging a breakthrough architecture, these services free the enterprise from investing in and managing a multitude of dedicated network appliances for globally distributed offices. Enterprises can also open up new offices or support short term projects with minimal upfront investments.
These services expand NTT Com’s portfolio of Arcstar Universal One™ - the enterprise network services reaching to more than 190 countries/regions worldwide. The new services will become officially available for sales starting from July 2014.
Transformation to Asset-Light Networking
“While many industry experts and service providers have long been speaking about the potential of NFV, we are excited to become the first service providers to commercialize NFV-enabled services on a global scale,” says Takashi Ooi, NTT Com’s Vice President of Enterprise Network Service. “NFV is a technology to virtualize network functions that traditionally run on physical appliances. Leveraging NFV technology in our Local Cloud Networking Centers worldwide, we can now deliver varieties of network functions – such as firewall and application acceleration for branch offices – from our network cloud. This eliminates the ‘one device, per service, per location’ model, resulting in significant cost savings for our customers.”
"Virtela and NTT Com's SDN and NFV innovations give enterprises unprecedented choice and control in transforming their global enterprise networks," said Virtela President Ron Haigh. "We are accelerating the delivery of new innovative services, setting the highest bar in the industry with a flexible subscription model that enables CIOs to simplify network architecture and allow them to focus on their core business."
Real-Time Provisioning Via Self-Service Portal
These
cloud-based network services can be deployed and managed via an
SDN-enabled customer portal - giving users the flexibility to instantly
activate services when and where needed. Service deployments that took
months now take only minutes. Configuration changes that took weeks can
now be done in real time.
“And it is not only about saving capital and operational costs,” says Ooi. “NTT Com’s services transform enterprise WAN to enable customers to stay agile and responsive to the ever-changing business environment.”
NTT Com offers the flexibility for customers to activate and configure cloud-based network services on their own, rely on NTT Com for management, or a hybrid of both.
Extensive Cloud-based Network Services Portfolio
The new
cloud-based network services make branch office networking more
asset-light, agile, scalable and economical, enabling companies to
better meet ever-changing business requirements. NTT Com is expanding
its extensive cloud services portfolio with four new cloud-based network
services globally:
- Cloud-Based Application Acceleration: Optimizes application performance over the IP-VPN network, enabling global IT consolidation and faster access to cloud-hosted applications (*30-Day Free Trial available)
- Cloud-Based Firewall: This service offers Firewall, IPS, and URL Filtering options, and enables secure Internet access at branch offices using the nearest of 50 Local Cloud Networking Centers distributed globally
- Cloud-Based IPSEC VPN Gateway: Establishes quick enterprise network connections from public cloud or any site with Internet access
- Cloud-Based SSL VPN: Enables remote workers or partners using any device to access the enterprise network
Enterprises can take advantage of NTT Com’s industry most advanced portfolio of end-to-end services including cloud compute, storage, network, security, unified communications and infrastructure management services.
Real-World Business Benefits
[Quote of Virtela customer]
“We’ve
achieved a strong ROI by moving to an asset-light IT architecture and
Virtela is a key partner in successfully executing on that strategy,”
said Dennis Hodges, Chief Information Officer for Inteva Products.
“Virtela’s virtualized cloud-based network services have truly
transformed our branch office networking -- giving our end-users optimal
access to whatever resource they need, wherever they need it, instantly
from the cloud -- which delivers higher value for our employees and
business partners worldwide. We’re looking forward to taking advantage
of NTT Com’s extended cloud portfolio to increase our savings.”
[Quote from NTT Com Customer]
According to Takanori Yukishige,
Senior Vice President and Chairman of the Business Process Innovation
Committee, Innovation & IT Strategy at ALL NIPPON AIRWAYS CO., LTD.,
“The ANA Group is deploying NTT Communications services, such as Arcstar
Universal One IP-VPN service and a newly introduced cloud-based unified
communication solution. The unified communication solution, which is
supported by a highly reliable network, is further helping us to improve
operational efficiency and save four million USD annually. By making use
of cutting-edge technologies and services, such as NFV, we expect to
continue benefitting from reliable, flexible and cost-effective ICT
infrastructure from NTT Communications.”
[Quote from IDC Analyst]
"Increasingly globalized business
operations, continued growth in remote/mobile work forces, and "extended
enterprise" business ecosystems and evolving IT architectures require
more flexible, cost effective application delivery models to provide
secure, reliable access for highly distributed end-user communities,
says Melanie Posey, research vice president at IDC." "Virtela's
NFV-enabled cloud networking services, combined with NTT Com's
leadership in SDN/NFV innovation, provides optimized, secure branch
office connectivity to centralized applications hosted in the corporate
data center and to "off-net" cloud services and applications." NTT Com,
one of the most visionary global telcos, has a comprehensive portfolio
of network and IT services, which positions the company as a front
runner in the growing ICT services market."
For more about Arcstar Universal One, visit www.ntt.com/universalone_e.
About NTT Communications Corporation
NTT Communications
provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to
optimize the information and communications technology (ICT)
environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s
worldwide infrastructure, including leading global tier-1 IP network,
Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and
over 150 secure data centers. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the
global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT
DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
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