Global IP Network Executive to Discuss Impact of Content on IP Wholesale Markets at Capacity Asia 2015
New York, NY and Bangkok, Thailand – 30 November 30, 2015 – NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the global data and IP services arm of Fortune Global 500 telecom leader NTT (NYSE: NTT), today announced its participation as a Platinum Sponsor at the Capacity Asia 2015 Conference taking place in Bangkok, Thailand, 30 November to 2 December. Capacity Asia is one of the leading events for the wholesale IP service industry in the region.
Michael Wheeler, executive vice president of NTT Communications Global IP Network at NTT America, will join industry leaders on the keynote panel “Identifying the Building Blocks to Satisfy the more Content-Centric Consumer” on Tuesday 1 December at 12:10 p.m. local time. The discussion will focus on the relationships between global carriers and Over-The-Top (OTT) players and the evolution of their infrastructure and business models to meet customer demands.
“The relationship between OTT players and carriers in Asia, as throughout the world, can be mutually beneficial. As the leading wholesale IP provider in Asia, NTT Com has the scale and resources to offer content providers and other Internet-centric businesses the capacity and global footprint their customers demand,” said Mr. Wheeler. “With an extensive IP backbone ranked as one of the world’s largest and most reliable, NTT Com is uniquely positioned to address the market needs and challenges in the region.” Please click here to watch a video with Mr. Wheeler discussing the impact of OTT players on the global telecom industry.
NTT Com remains the top Wholesale IP Provider in Asia, according to the latest Dyn Wholesale Rankings. The company continues developing its Global IP Network and worldwide infrastructure through expansions and acquisitions. After establishing new points-of-presence (PoP) in Luxembourg, Bangkok and Boston last year, NTT Com recently launched a PoP in Marseille, France, a major interconnection hub for several international subsea cables that link Europe to Africa, the Middle East and Asia.
In Asia the company announced that it completed the acquisition of Cyber CSF, an Indonesian data center service provider, and NTT Com subsidiary Netmagic launched a new massive high-density data center in Mumbai, one of the largest in India.
NTT Com is a Platinum Sponsor of Capacity Asia 2015. Attendees can connect with NTT Com during the company-sponsored Tuesday 1 December evening reception and at the exhibition stand during networking hours.
About NTT Communications
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 140 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
About NTT Communications Global IP Network
Consistently ranked among the top networks worldwide, NTT Com’s Tier-1 Global IP Network covers Asia, North and South America, Europe and Oceania, and provides the best possible environment for data and video transport through a single autonomous system number (AS 2914). NTT Com is one of the top two global wholesale IP providers and the number one provider in Asia according to the Dyn IP Transit Intelligence (formerly Renesys) Wholesale Rankings.
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Global IP Network, NTT America
NTT Communications
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