(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Communications and IP network services provider NTT America (www.nttamerica.com) has announced that its Global IP Network has reached 300 Gigabits per second of available capacity on the trans-Pacific portion of the network, making it the highest available capacity network of any global Tier-1 network.
A wholly owned US subsidiary of Japan’s NTT Communications Corporation (www.ntt.com), NTT America directly connects telecommunications companies, Internet service providers, content providers, content delivery networks and enterprises to major markets around the world via its Global Tier-1 IP Backbone Network. According to its Thursday announcement, NTT America anticipates continued capacity demand for broadband networks.
“Network traffic growth is not slowing down, especially trans-Pacific traffic,” NTT America chief technology officer Doug Junkins said in a statement. “Our continued investment in our network infrastructure is a priority that keeps us ahead of the curve when it comes to providing our customers with flexible, cost-effective and high performance solutions to meet their bandwidth needs.”
As a long-term leader in the Asian telecommunications market, NTT Com’s acquisition last year of Pacific Crossing has allowed it to incorporate the PC-1 trans-Pacific cable network, providing the highest quality network services and shortest route between Asia, Japan and the US and the lowest latency across the Pacific. By using three cable systems, PC-1, Tyco Global Network and Japan-US, NTT America can provide the shortest path for trans-Pacific Internet traffic, and maintain the performance and reliability of the NTT Com Global IP Network.
The global reach of the network allows a variety of markets, such as financial, gaming, and social networking, in the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia to efficiently deliver content internationally through Internet network nodes and data centers located in key US and Japanese cities, offering the best end-user experience for customers as content continues to drive bandwidth needs. The added bandwidth capacity will benefit customers connecting through Point of Presence locations on the NTT Com Global IP Network backbone in the US, Europe and Asia Pacific, giving them a competitive advantage.
Alan Mauldin, research director of communications consultancy TeleGeography (www.telegeography.com), stated, “As international traffic growth accelerated in the last year, global Internet backbone operators have responded to this demand with impressive amounts of new capacity. Not only did the traffic on trans-Pacific links experience considerable growth in 2009, but average international traffic with Asia grew 80 percent, which was more rapid than Europe, Latin America or the US and Canada.”
