NTT carries out basic research and development activities at three laboratory groups in a wide range of fields, including some of the most advanced ICT research in the world.
In the interest of creating a “new world of communication brought about by sharing of contextualized knowledge” in a “broadband and ubiquitous society”, the NTT is undertaking R&D to create new communication services and to foster foundational technologies that will realize communication networks to support these services. Moreover, the NTT is also actively engaging in research on cutting-edge and basic technologies that look to the next decade.
Research and development leading to the creation of new technologies and products for new broadband and ubiquitous services
- Creation of innovative broadband and ubiquitous services and technologies, and research and development of service provision platform configuration technology
- Research on elemental media processing technologies, which provide the basis for broadband and ubiquitous services, and development of engines for these technologies
- Research and development of innovative information processing technologies that allow the secure, reliable, convenient, and economic use of broadband and ubiquitous services
- Research and development of cryptography and security technologies essential to a safe and secure society
Research and development of infrastructure technology to support next-generation network services
- Research and development of network architecture, communication traffic & service quality, and convergence network & services
- Research and development of network services and the next-generation information network technologies
- Research and development of the next-generation information network technologies and access system & network for creating new access services
- Research and development of environment information technologies and energy technologies for evolution of living environment
Cutting-edge research and development leading to the creation of new far-sighted principles and concepts
- Research and development of innovative communication technologies to establish fundamentals of future networks and their services
- Research and development on the cutting-edge technologies ranging from the device and the module to the subsystem that will be useful in support "broadband and ubiquitous services"
- Research and development of optical and electronic components, modules, materials, and other core photonics technologies to achieve novel forms of information sharing
- Discovery and creation of new approaches and concepts in intelligent communication, media information, and human science to revolutionize information communication technologies
- Discovery of novel concepts in the field of network technology to overcome the present limitations in speed, capacity and size
