NTT Group's R&D Initiatives

Under the NTT R&D vision of creating technologies that lead the world and contributing to the development of society and industry and academic pursuits, approximately 2,500 researchers engage in a wide range of diverse research activities from basic research to R&D, which support operating companies' business development. With R&D as a key driver of the NTT Group's growth capabilities, the NTT Group creates competitive technologies and collaborates with various corporations, universities and research institutions, thereby ensuring ongoing innovation.

Services under Ongoing Business Development through Our Commercialization Activities

• Cloud Services

  The NTT Group, a telecommunications carrier, possesses safe, secure and highly reliable networks and platforms, as well as large-scale distributed processing technology and operational management and security technologies. Based on such strengths, the NTT Group collaborates with business partners that provide applications and handsets, developing cloud services for various corporations in diverse industries, in the public sector such as administration, medical, health, education and environment, as well as in the consumer field such as content and home ICT. The NTT Group focuses its concerted efforts on achieving "cloud networking as a social infrastructure."

  

  Social infrastructure clouds. Large-scale distributed processing platform & operation technologies. Cloud development / verification environment (NTT R&D cloud). Integration with major products. Use open source. Standardization of inter-cloud federation (such as the Global Inter-Cloud Technology Forum [GICTF]) . VPN/NGN/LTE. Internet. Open Source. Secure. Large Scale. Distributed Processing. Environment-Friendly.

• Home ICT

  Expectations for home ICT are high as a tool to make our lifestyles safe, secure and affluent. Home ICT, by optimizing home/office equipment and networks, makes various applications for homes and SOHOs more convenient. The NTT Group developed the home ICT infrastructure, which achieves various home ICT services effectively using home gateways located at homes and SOHOs. We are standardizing the home ICT infrastructure as an international standard and developing businesses related to such infrastructure-based home ICT services, forming collaborative partnerships with various business operators.

  

• Software: Set up lifestyle support software programs at the home gateway (compatible with OSGi*)
• *OSGi (Open Services Gateway initiative): Software development framework to achieve software modulation and remote control of software