NTT Communications Launches World’s Largest SD-WAN Footprint Covering Over 190 Countries with Industry’s Most Comprehensive End-to-End SD-WAN Service Portfolio

Key Enterprise
Benefits: Achieves
critical industry milestone, becomes the world’s first provider to deploy a
global 100% software defined network enabling overlay SD-WAN services

·  Unrivaled performance and connectivity options
via NTT Com’s 1,000+ local ISP partners

·  Global cloud-based SD-WAN Secure Web Gateway
and application acceleration services

·  Dynamic, optimized network utilization at
every branch office

·  Optimized and reliable access to major cloud
and SaaS platforms

·  Real-time network analytics – unmatched
ability to visualize the end-user experience

SINGAPORE – June 21, 2017 – NTT
Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international
communications provider within the NTT Group (TYO:
9432), announced today the launch of NTT SD-WAN Service Portfolio, the
world’s first SD-WAN platform with coverage spanning over 190 countries. In
another first, NTT Com sets a new industry benchmark by becoming the world’s
first global provider to deploy a 100 percent software defined network that
provides the framework for NTT Com to offer a rich suite of overlay SD-WAN
services for global and regional enterprises, along with industry leading
SD-WAN network performance for enterprises and end-users. The global software
defined network provides NTT Com with unprecedented flexibility and speed to
launch new services designed to assist enterprises in transforming their
businesses and responding to their competition. NTT Com is expanding its
Software-Defined Network Service and now has more choices to offer customers by
launching these SD-WAN services.

NTT SD-WAN platform is
based on a groundbreaking architecture that is locally distributed around the
world via 75+ local cloud centers (LCCs), optimized for network, mobility, and
security services. NTT SD-WAN real-time streaming network analytics offers CIOs
and their IT staff deep insight into application performance, network security,
and the end-user experience. The platform also supports the delivery of
services from customer premises equipment located at customer branch
offices.

“Digital
transformation is at the heart of every modern enterprise today, fundamentally
changing companies’ business models,” said Mr. Shuichi Sasakura, Senior Vice
President Network Services of NTT Com. “The global NTT SD-WAN Service Portfolio
is an end-to-end solution that provides organizations with a highly flexible
and agile network that is fully tailored to their specific requirements and
enables them to better compete in today’s digital economy.”

NTT Com is leveraging
software defined technology and platform acquired via the Virtela acquisition
in 2014. Virtela, a leader in software defined networking, was offering
software defined network services to enterprises for over 12 years at the time
of acquisition. Together, the NTT Com and Virtela teams continue to accelerate
the development of NTT Com’s “SDx+M Solution Strategy.”

“NTT SD-WAN Service
Portfolio is backed by our employees’ unmatched passion for customer support,”
says Ron Haigh, President of Virtela, NTT Com’s global enterprise network
business unit. “NTT Com would like to thank our customers, partners, and
employees for helping us achieve this software defined networking industry
milestone.”

“We’ve leveraged NTT
Com services as part of Dimension Data’s Managed Hybrid WAN solution for
numerous customers with great success,” says Rob Lopez, Group Executive
Networking, Dimension Data, an NTT Group Company. “We’re excited by the
enhancements that NTT Com has made to its SD-WAN portfolio, and we look forward
to working together to bolster the value we offer our joint customers.”

“CIOs are increasingly
interested in software defined networking technology. NTT DATA is a frontrunner
in offering innovative solutions and is looking forward to helping clients take
advantage of NTT’s SD-WAN Service Portfolio,” says Marv Mouchawar, President,
Strategic Business Units, NTT DATA, an NTT Group Company.

Real-Time Streaming
Network Analytics: The
NTT SD-WAN Service Portfolio features real-time streaming network analytics
based on NTT Com’s application visibility reporting & analytics tool, allowing
enterprise customers to better manage network workload and performance. The
platform’s industry-leading analytics enables enterprises to keep a real-time
pulse on the health of their network and continuously monitor traffic flows.
NTT SD-WAN platform also provides multi-dimensional visualization with replay
functionality of application performance, network security, utilization, and
end-user experience, enabling organizations to analyze issues at the site
level, application dimension, or individual IP address.

Enterprise
Connectivity Flexibility: NTT
Com offers customers many choices when it comes to selecting network
connectivity for enterprise locations. The NTT SD-WAN Service Portfolio
supports all types of network connectivity: Local ISP, Internet, Broadband,
Wireless, MPLS, LTE, etc. giving customers the option to mix and match
different types of connectivity at every branch office. NTT SD-WAN customers
benefit from NTT Com’s optimized cloud connectivity to major SaaS and Cloud
service providers. NTT Com uses a proprietary database of 1,000+ local ISPs to
select the best local network providers for each customer location.
Alternatively customers can provide their own network connections via local
ISPs. NTT Com also manages customer provided ISP or local broadband provider
network connections, eliminating a major pain point for clients in managing
multiple ISP relationships around the world.

Customer Premises
Equipment (CPE) Flexibility: NTT
Com offers customers the choice of selecting NTT provided or customer provided
SD-WAN devices at their branch offices. NTT Com has the knowledge and expertise
to manage SD-WAN technology available from both established and emerging SD-WAN
technology vendors in the market, and currently supports 10+ SD-WAN and uCPE
vendors including white box options.

Optimized Local ISP
Selection & Routing: NTT’s
global SD-WAN overlay network has optimized connectivity to 1,000+ local
network providers that connect customer locations in over 190 countries. NTT’s
globally distributed SD-WAN platform enables an end-to-end SD-WAN solution that
optimizes SD-WAN Internet connectivity, bypassing Internet peering and
congestion points.

Enhanced Quality of
Service (QoS): Standard SD-WAN
offerings have an inherent limitation when it comes to QoS policy enforcement.
Since most local ISPs do not offer or enforce QoS policies for inbound traffic
destined to customer branch offices, traffic cannot be prioritized causing poor
performance and a lower quality end-user experience. NTT’s global SD-WAN
platform enables the application and enforcement of QoS policies solving these
challenges enhancing performance and improving end-user experience.

Secure Web Gateways
and Application Acceleration: As customers adopt direct Internet connections at branch
offices, new security challenges emerge. Protecting enterprise assets is a
critical requirement, and suddenly enterprises find themselves having to
purchase and support local security infrastructure for each branch location,
increasing risk and costs. As part of NTT SD-WAN Service Portfolio, NTT Com
offers a fully integrated SD-WAN security solution via its Secure Web Gateways
located at globally distributed LCCs where customers can enable web URL
filtering, firewall protection, and intrusion prevention services. NTT Com also
offers application acceleration services via its LCCs to accelerate
applications and optimize the end-user experience. These services can be
activated in minutes via a web portal and can be self-managed or managed by NTT
Com, and customers can take advantage of flexible pay-per use models. Customers
also have the option to enable these services on uCPE devices located at their
branch offices.

In addition, NTT Com’s
software defined network enables malware detection reporting to help
enterprises deal with the persistent threat of botnets and malware without
requiring any on-premises hardware or software. The service provides CIOs and
their IT staff with advanced malware detection and reporting analytics to
identify infected devices within the enterprise, which can dramatically reduce
the time to act and to mitigate the impact of these security threats.

Customer Support: NTT Com acts as a single point of contact for
its customers for SD-WAN network design, delivery and installation of network
and CPE devices, implementation, and 24×7 proactive monitoring and management
worldwide. NTT Com’s advanced predictive analytics helps proactively identify
and isolate customer network issues.

“Inteva’s business is
dependent on our network performance and NTT’s global SD-WAN network services
provide us with high network reliability and performance. NTT Com’s customer
support team is highly proactive and responsive which allows us to focus on
running our core business,” says Dennis Hodges, CIO, Inteva Products, LCC.

“NTT Com is raising
the bar in the telecom industry by reaching a global, 100 percent software
defined network milestone and in offering a ubiquitous overlay of SD-WAN
network, application acceleration, and security services for enterprises around
the globe,” states Michael Suby, Stratecast VP of Research at Frost &
Sullivan. “Among the most innovative and globally flexible solutions available
in the market today, NTT’s SD-WAN Service Portfolio delivers the reach,
performance, and adaptability organizations need to meet today’s business
demands and transform their enterprise networks.

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
the leading global tier-1 IP network, the SD-WAN Service Portfolio reaching 196
countries/regions, and 140 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’
solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including
Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
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