Research and development of infrastructure technology and products to support the next-generation of network services

The Information Sharing Laboratory Group is engaged in research and development as well as the creation of business concepts in connection with next-generation networking technologies for the establishment of the broadband and ubiquitous society and platform technologies to support a vast range of service technologies that utilize the next-generation networks. The Group is also promoting R&D focused on environmental information communication technology (environmental ICT) that will help foster an information sharing society friendly to the earth's environment. Its main activities are as follows.

• Research and development on architecture for design and operation of high-quality and economical networks and basic technology for quality and traffic.
• Research and development toward provision of various safe, secure, and convenient information distribution network services.
• Research and development of the network infrastructure for transferring and sharing large volumes of information while assuring high quality.
• Research and development of access networks for providing a variety of broadband and ubiquitous services.
• Research and development of environmental ICT and energy-related technologies as well as technologies for environmental impact assessment.

[ Architecture/Quality and Traffic ]

We are pursuing R&D on network architecture and basic technologies for telecommunications quality and traffic design management. These technologies will be applied to the design and operation of next-generation networks that will provide a variety of high-quality and economical services.

[ Information Sharing Platforms ]

We are promoting R&D on technologies that will apply the latest security know-how so that customers can use various services that utilize next-generation networks safely, securely, and conveniently. We are also developing technologies that service providers will be able to use economically through platforming of infrastructure and functions that providers will need in a crosscutting manner.

[ Core Networks ]

The aim of the Information Sharing Laboratory Group is to keep pace with rapid growth in data volumes by developing network infrastructures based on high-speed, large-volume optical IP technology. The Group is also developing service control systems that will realize high-performance networks capable of flexibly supplying a wide range of services.

[ Access Networks ]

With an eye to the diversification of broadband services, we are developing not only fiber-optic access technologies concerning optical fiber and optical fiber transmission system, but also wireless access that will be supplement fiber-optics, and form the basis for ubiquitous services technologies. We are also pursuing communications infrastructure technologies to ensure the stability of communications as a social lifeline.

[ Environment and Energy ]

In the interest of making a safe and secure society that is both people- and Earth-friendly reality, we are pursuing R&D on environmental ICT that will apply sensing data from the atmospheric environment in our daily lives, energy-related technologies such as fuel cells that are environmentally friendly, and technologies for environmental impact assessment that are founded on life-cycle assessment (LCA).

[ PM Risk Assessment System for Supporting Protection of the Atmospheric Environment and Feedback to the Factory Process Control ]

(By achieving online PM sensing and simulation forecasts.)