NTT Communications solves global technology challenges by helping companies manage IT infrastructure solutions to overcome complexity and risk in their ICT environments. These solutions are supported by its global infrastructure, including industry leaders, public and private networks of global tier 1 reaching over 190 countries/regions and the most advanced data center facility in the world over 400,000m2.

It is recently said by NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) that the network of its Nexcenter Reporting Centers in Tokyo and Osaka, Japan, will expand so that customer services can link to clouds and content services more flexible than ever before. Sequentially, from this month, in order to allow customers to access services provided through this NTT IXs and various NTT Com partners, NTT Com shall directly connect its ecosystem with three major Internet exchanges (IXs) in Japan. After that, NTT Com continues to expand the NTT Com’s Nexcenter™ data center ecosystem.

As a DX Enabler™, NTT Com uses ICT for “Transform and create a business” in the digital transformation (DX) together with customers, focuses on the use of digital data and worked on the distribution of data that can be used as valuable information by transforming data into information and intelligence. This initiative is one of the ways NTT Com expands its ecosystem for flexible connection to the clouds and the content services of various providers, leveraging the support of Nexcenter in the Data Distribution Platform.

The main data centers operated by NTT Comm in Tokyo and Osaka are interconnected between BBIX, Inc.'s IX Connect Service and Japan Internet Exchange Co., Ltd. JPIX service, and the Internet Multifeed Co.'s currently available JPNAP service. The IXs provide NTT Com customers with an expanded range of services by connecting them via the Nexcenter Connect™  service, offered at a flat, low-cost charge, to certain data centers.

The data centers will include the Data Centers Tokyo No. 1 through No. 10, the Data Centers Yoka No 1 and Saitama No. 1 in the Tokyo region, the Data Centers Osaca 1 through 3, the Data Center Osaca 5. and the coming data centers Osaka 6 and 7 in the Osaka region. With the expansion of link-ups between partners, NTT Com will enhance its ecosystem focused on Nexcenter data enters. Customers will benefit through Nexcenter data centers from the various cloud and IT services provided by NTT Com partner companies.

NTT Com will develop a range of data distribution platform measures as a DX Enabler to implement customers’ DX in addition to the global IoT services using eSIM and network services that link several clouds in a flexible way. The network will provide artificial intelligence services, data management, and service support services. NTT Com expects its connections to various IXs to be expanded further and its partnerships with other major service providers to be broadened.