NTT Com currently operates branches mainly near China's coast, however, central China is rapidly growing, making the additions to Wuhan and Guangzhou a logical step.
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Further expanding into China, Japan’s NTT Communications (www.ntt.com) has launched a new point of presence for its Arcstar Global IP-VPN managed network services in Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, and is planning to open a new branch office in Wuhan, Hubei Province in February.
According to its Thursday announcement, the Wuhan office is a milestone for NTT Com. It is the first branch office of a global telecom company in Wuhan, which is the biggest industrial city in central China and home to many specially designated zones for economic and technological development.
Providing a broad range of global networks, management solutions and IT services worldwide, NTT Com currently operates branches mainly near China’s coast, including Dalian, Tianjin, Beijing, Shanghai, Suzhou and Guangzhou. The Wuhan branch, located at the New World International Trade Center, will enhance NTT Com’s information and communication technology provisioning in central China, including fast support for operation and maintenance.
The central China region comprising Hubei, Henan and Hunan provinces has growing in productivity recently, attracting Japanese and other multinational companies to set up business hubs and capitalize on the region’s growing middle class. Economic development is expected to be further driven by a high-speed railway completed last month between Wuhan and Guangzhou that is reportedly the fastest train service in the world, averaging 194 miles per hour in non-stop commercial service.
Arcstar Global IP-VPN services are available in 159 countries and regions worldwide. The new POP in Guangzhou is now serving China’s second highest concentration of Japanese and other foreigners, following only the Shanghai area. Besides enabling NTT Com to offer high-quality, low-cost network services to nearby customers, it also will enable customers to shorten access lines to south China region, especially Guangdong Province. The new POP’s backbone is connected to Japan directly and to other Asian locations via Hong Kong, ensuring low-latency access.
The new offices and POP are just NTT’s latest effort to tap into the rapidly growing Chinese market for ICT services. Last year, NTT Com partnered with China Telecom Shanghai, a subsidiary of fixed and mobile phone operator China Telecom Group (en.chinatelecom.com.cn), to launch a tier-3 data center in Shanghai. The Yuanqu Data Center was the first Global e-VLAN POP in mainland China, extending the simplicity of an Ethernet LAN environment across the world with its protocol-free, meshed, secure, high bandwidth Ethernet connectivity.
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