NTT Com has expanded the data transmission capacity of its Global IP Network link between Asia and Oceania to 500 Gbps.
NTT Com’s global IP backbones, which provide IP network services to Japan, Asia, Europe, Oceania and other markets worldwide, are connected to fixed and mobile telecom companies, ISPs, data center operators and content providers.
The company’s largest cable network, which offers 620 Gbps between Japan and the US, uses a dual-stack (IPv4 and IPv6) configuration as one of NTT Com’s core IPv6 networks.
The growing use of smartphones, tablet devices and broadband access has led to sharp increases in music/video downloading, blogging, social networking and cloud computing worldwide, NTT Com said.
NTT Com has increased its data-transmission capacity between Asia and Oceania by nearly tenfold since 2007.
The company said the new capacity is equivalent to approximately 29,762 channels of digital terrestrial television or 428 years’ worth of content in a daily newspaper.