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NTT East Japan Adopts Cisco NFV Portfolio
November 2017 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Cisco Systems G.K. announced that
Nippon Telegraph and Telephone East Corporation has adopted a
full-stack, ETSI-compliant NFV solution validated and supported by
Cisco for its new Maruraku Office service. This will
enable the centralized creation, management and operation of
Information and Communications Technology (ICT) environments for
small and medium enterprises.
NTT East is creating a highly reliable virtualization environment by transitioning
from its existing service platform to provide new services aimed at resolving the
problems posed by the ongoing shortage of dedicated IT personnel in many small and
medium enterprises. The virtualization platform of the company’s new service for
consolidating Internet lines, firewalls, routers, storage and business phones in the
cloud requires a wide range of system components. In addition, sophisticated
coordination between these elements is essential to ensure stability.
Working with Cisco Advanced Services, NTT East deployed Cisco(R) Network Services
Orchestrator (NSO), Cisco Elastic Services Controller (ESC), and the Cisco Network
Functions Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) solution, including Cisco Virtual
Topology System (VTS) and Cisco Virtualized Infrastructure Manager (VIM). The
solution enabled the automation and integration of component functions with complex
configurations within its virtualization platform. This cuts costs by reducing
manual work and optimizing operations, whilst ensuring greater business agility for
service changes and deployment.
NTT East’s adoption of Cisco products and technology in its new
service platform was based on the latter’s comprehensive and unified response and
support system. This extends to general maintenance and operation of software and
hardware spanning everything from service controllers to virtual server platforms
and physical networks. NTT East will work to ensure the security and agility of the
platform through automated and optimized operation, while developing new services
and expanding ongoing services in support of small and medium enterprises.
