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DAY 1 THE INCOMPAS SHOW
NTT Com’s Innovation Helps Customers Grow
W ith a focus on new infrastructure,
technology and customer service,
NTT Com empowers communica-
tions service providers, CLECs,
ISPs, network operators and Internet-centric
businesses with cost-effective, reliable and flex-
ible IP services.
The company operates one of the world’s
most extensive Tier-1 wholesale IP networks,
known as the Global IP Network. From Silicon
Valley to Bangkok, from Luxembourg to Sao
Paulo, it links more than 90 points-of-presence
(PoPs) and data centers and is dedicated to
getting customers’ videos, content and data
where they need to go quickly and safely.
Pairing a state-of-the-art IP backbone that
delivers high-quality transit with dedicated
customer support has proven to be a winning
formula for NTT Com. The company achieved
a 99.63 percent customer retention rate
among North American customers, far above
industry standards.
It also has been named Best North American
Wholesale Carrier at the Carrier Global Awards
2015 and Best Global Wholesale Operator at the
World Communication Awards 2015.
According to independent research firm Dyn
(formerly Renesys), NTT Com remains one of
the top wholesale IP providers in the world and
also in North America.
NTT Com consistently has focused on
extending and improving its Global IP Network.
“Strengthening our IP backbone helps our
customers enhance their own networks as well,”
said Brent Duncan, vice president of Sales and
Marketing for the NTT Communications Global
IP Network at NTT America.
“By increasing performance overall and
continuing to expand our content-rich IP
network, we’re empowering companies to
provide the best service possible and deliver
an exceptional customer experience to their
end users which we believe differentiates them
from their competitors,” Duncan added.
Innovation is an important piece in NTT
Com’s success. In addition to launching
new 100G-enabled PoPs and upgrading
submarine cables to 100G speeds, NTT Com
has been a pioneer in IPv6, software-defined
networking (SDN) and a number of green
initiatives.
One of the first global carriers to transition
from 1G to 10G, NTT Com has been offering
100G ports to customers for more than two
years. In 2014, the company opened a PoP in
Luxembourg built exclusively on 100G network
links, the first 100G connected PoP anywhere
in the NTT Com’s European network.
The company broke new ground when it
became the first carrier to deploy 100G tech-
nologies on its PC-1 subsea cable system – a
13,000-mile network linking the United States
and Japan. The move effectively bolstered
capacity on the route by 2.5 times.
In another recent breakthrough, NTT Com
completed a successful field trail of 400-Gbps
optical signal transmission in an existing 100G-
based optical network in Japan. This was
achieved without affecting the existing 100G
channels during the addition and removal of
400G channels in a 100-Gbps-based wavelength
division multiplexing (WDM) system.
This success is a step toward expanding the
optical communication capacity by four times
that of the currently installed 100G systems by
using 400G advanced digital coherent optical
transmission technologies.
This advancement will allow NTT Com to
meet the rapidly increasing demand represented
by the distribution of high definition 4K/8K
movies, the Internet of Things and other killer
apps in a timely manner.
NTT Com also has been setting the pace
in the field of software-enabled connectivity,
launching flexible and scalable networks in a
fully automated SDN environment.
SDN technology has been at the core of the
company’s global IP backbone for more than
a decade, resulting in operations with higher
quality of service, lower error rates and exten-
sive network visibility. o
For more information about NTT Com and its
global IP services, go to .
A NPI, a provider with a 20-year history
of partnering with rural carriers, has
made significant progress one year
after launch.
ANPI Connect was launched before the
2015 Rural Telecom Industry Meeting & Expo
and had already reached 30 end points. Since
then, ANPI Connect has increased 366 percent,
with 110 end points, and expects to grow to
more than 200 by the end of the year.
“ANPI Connect has been a long-term vision
of ANPI’s since I joined ANPI, and I am thrilled
to see what a positive impact it has made,” said
Randy Lemmo, ANPI executive vice president
of Carrier Services.
“By working together to form one large
network, carriers can connect to ANPI’s
switching network and knock out many of the
call quality, completion and billing issues they
have been battling,” he said.
Previously known as VAP, ANPI Connect was
developed to provide an answer to call quality
and call completion issues that have plagued
the ILEC community for years. The VAP initiative
provides ILECs with the purest direct intercon-
nection to destinations within the ANPI footprint
and a network efficiency ratio above 98 percent.
ANPI Connect provides improved access
billing as it is a trusted partner known for
prompt payment. In addition, members have
been reporting fewer trouble tickets, fewer
moving parts and no longer a need to deal with
the headaches of revenue conciliation.
ANPI offers a private label hosted unified
communications solution for carriers and as
direct connections, wholesale long distance,
peering, tandem access and SS7 solutions.
Based in Springfield, Ill., ANPI began serving
rural telecom companies in 1996, and today
serves the voice and data needs of nearly 800
ILECs, CLECs, IXCs and regional wireless
carriers, as well as more than a thousand busi-
ness customers throughout the United States.
ANPI also owns and operates a nationwide
IP network with switching and/or PoP facili-
ties in Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles,
Las Vegas and New York City, and monitors
all activity around-the-clock in its own network
operations center. o
For more information, go to
or call 877-366-2674.
ANPI Connect Expands Direct
Connections with PoPs