Creating a new ecosystem for NFV/SDN technical and business development: The challenge of NTT laboratories and dimension data APAC

Abstract

Network functions virtualization and software-defined networking are changing the process of turning technology into commercial services, including the process of standardization. With this development, collaboration with other service providers in commercializing new technologies and the role of integrators are both growing in importance, especially as the granularity of functional components becomes ever smaller. This article introduces the NTT Information Network Laboratory Group's activities in promoting global deployment of NTT research results through collaboration with Dimension Data, one of the NTT Group integrators.