TOKYO, JAPAN – NTT Communications (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within NTT (NYSE: NTT), announced today that it has been positioned as a Leader in International Data Corporation’s (IDC) “IDC ITMarketScape Worldwide Telecom Service Provider Vendor Assessment” report (doc #257339, July 2015). The IDC ITMarketScape evaluated 12 key telecom service providers (SPs) for the ability to provide a comprehensive global portfolio of services including Managed WAN, Cloud, Collaboration and Security.

According to Courtney Munroe, Group Vice President of Worldwide Telecommunications Research, IDC and the lead analyst for this study, “NTT Communications has emerged as a leading global service provider in the 2015 global service provider IDC ITMarketScape. NTT Communications has earned a spot in the leadership quadrant of this IDC ITMarketScape because it has made great strides in executing on its ‘Vision 2015’ strategy. The company is transforming organically, and through smart acquisitions. It is well on its way to executing on its mission to be a leading MNC ICT Partner. Over the last 18 months, NTT Communications has built an appealing portfolio that includes, cloud, collaboration and managed networking services. Most importantly, the company is a leading global Tier One CSP with an impressive geographical coverage and strong supporting organization. ”

To view the report: http://www.ntt.com/aboutus_e/news/data/pdf/20150731a.pdf

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“IDC ITMarketScape Worldwide Telecom Service Provider Vendor Assessment ” report (doc #257339, July 2015)

IDC ITMarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles. Vendor year-over-year growth rate relative to the given market is indicated by a plus, neutral or minus next to the vendor name.

About IDC ITMarketScape: IDC ITMarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC ITMarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and 130 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
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TOKYO, JAPAN – NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT (NYSE: NTT) Group, announced today that its Arcstar Universal One global VPN service received a No.1 Customer Satisfaction designation from the UK marketing services firm Ocean82, Ltd. for the third time. The selection, which is based on predicted organic growth and overall customer satisfaction, was published recently in “Voice of the Customer: Global Data VPN, Issue 18,” a benchmarking report.

According to Janet Watkin CEO of Ocean82, “NTT Com emerge as the number 1 global provider of data VPN services achieving the highest positioning score in the latest study of user opinion in the business enterprise market. Confidence in NTT Com remains high among its customers evidenced by its world-class rating”.

NTT Com was the only company to exceed the resilience benchmark to earn a World Class Customer Satisfaction award for demonstrating its sustainable competitive advantage. This is the third time NTT Com has won this separate award. NTT Com also received Gold Awards for outstanding performance in 9 categories, including Network Reliability, Ability to Meet Customer Requirements and Installation on Schedule.

Ocean82 evaluated customer satisfaction of eight global telecom operators, the others being AT&T, BT, Orange Business, T-Systems, Telefonica, Verizon and Vodafone Global Enterprise. The methodology involved interviewing decision-makers, influencers and end users at more than 1,000 multinational companies. The report considered major categories of customer service and 32 related service attributes.

NTT Com continues to enhance its global data communications offerings with top-quality cloud-based Arcstar Universal One VPN services. To ensure global quality, the company organizes the annual Arcstar Carrier Forum, an international conference where partner carriers devise strategies to strengthen Arcstar-branded managed network services offered to multinational corporations. NTT Com remains deeply committed to providing superior ICT services in nearly 200 countries.

About Ocean82

Ocean82 is an established marketing services firm specializing in benchmarking the customer service experience for the information & communication technologies industry. It is known for its track record in “Voice of the customer” analysis of competitive positioning, business strategy, branding, post-purchase care, channel management and pre-sales support, among other areas. It has experience in 30 countries and 10 languages, often making Ocean82 the first-choice supplier for organizations requiring international marketing research and analysis covering emerging technologies. www.ocean82.com

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and 130 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
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TOKYO, JAPAN — NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT Solutions and international communications business within the NTT (NYSE: NTT) Group, announced today that it was named the 2015 Frost & Sullivan Data Center Service Provider of the Year for the second consecutive year. The results were announced at the 2015 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards in Singapore on June 17.

According to Jessie Yu, Industry Manager, Asia Pacific ICT Practice of Frost & Sullivan, “NTT Communications (NTT Com) upped the stakes in the data center services space by launching its next-generation data center services branded as “Nexcenter” in April 2013. To meet the burgeoning demand of data center services in Asia-Pacific, the service provider has been expanding its data center footprint across the region. In 2014 alone, NTT Com launched three enterprise-class data centers, respectively India Bangalore 2, Malaysia Cyberjaya 4, and Shanghai Pudong Data Center.”

“By bringing in value-added services to its data center customers, NTT Com’s “revenue realization per square meter” was noteworthy as it surpassed a majority of its competitors in the market. NTT Com has further consolidated its strong positioning in the Asia-Pacific data center services market in 2014 and Frost & Sullivan expects it to continue providing strong competition to global and regional market participants.”

Also during the 2015 Frost & Sullivan Asia Pacific ICT Awards, Arkadin, an NTT Communications company, was named Asia Pacific Collaboration Service Provider of the Year for the 3rd consecutive time, in recognition of its outstanding collaboration services.

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Awards & Recognition: www.ntt.com/strength/leader/data/awards.html

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and 130 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
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TOKYO, JAPAN – NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced today that it has been positioned as a Leader in International Data Corporation’s (IDC) first ever “IDC ITMarketScape: Asia/Pacific Managed Security Services 2015 Vendor Assessment” report (doc # AP251064, May 2015). The IDC ITMarketScape represents a vendor assessment including both quantitative and qualitative characteristics that define success in today’s managed security services market.

IDC evaluated 16 organizations that offer managed security services (MSS) in Asia/Pacific by conducting in-depth interviews with MSS providers and more than 20 interviews with providers’ customers.

IDC cites NTT Com’s key strengths as:

• A great level of flexibility in terms of GTM (Go To Market) strategies by leveraging its subsidiaries and partnerships with consulting firms.
• Strong customer support in the area of real-time notification of high risk threats/security events as well as advanced detection (i.e. real time malware detection services) and analytics services with highly flexible options, including self-service to onboard customers.
• Further enhancement and continuous investment in Research and Development (R&D)

According to Cathy Huang, Research Manager, Services and Cloud Research Group, IDC Asia/Pacific and the lead analyst for this study, “NTT Com’s security strategy aims to offer total risk management to the entire ICT environment (including on premise, cloud, and datacenters) in various forms, including professional services, solution implementation and managed security services. It has a comprehensive services catalog for different groups of customers, including global multi-national companies, regional and local companies. The company is moving lots of low-value or commoditized security services towards automated or self-service options. More importantly, NTT Com plans to deliver or manage many of these services leveraging software-defined networking or network function virtualizations (NFV). ”

To view the report: http://www.ntt.com/aboutus_e/news/data/pdf/20150612.pdf

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*Source: IDC, IDC ITMarketScape: Asia/Pacific Managed Security Services 2015 Vendor Assessment” report (doc # AP251064, May 2015).

IDC ITMarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. The Capabilities score measures vendor product, go-to-market and business execution in the short-term. The Strategy score measures alignment of vendor strategies with customer requirements in a 3-5-year timeframe. Vendor market share is represented by the size of the circles. Vendor year-over-year growth rate relative to the given market is indicated by a plus, neutral or minus next to the vendor name.

About IDC ITMarketScape: IDC ITMarketScape vendor analysis model is designed to provide an overview of the competitive fitness of ICT (information and communications technology) suppliers in a given market. The research methodology utilizes a rigorous scoring methodology based on both qualitative and quantitative criteria that results in a single graphical illustration of each vendor’s position within a given market. IDC ITMarketScape provides a clear framework in which the product and service offerings, capabilities and strategies, and current and future market success factors of IT and telecommunications vendors can be meaningfully compared. The framework also provides technology buyers with a 360-degree assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of current and prospective vendors.

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and 130 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
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TOKYO, JAPAN — NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT (NYSE: NTT) Group announced today that it named “Operator of the Year” and “Best Enterprise Service” award at the Asia Communication Awards 2015 in Singapore on June 3.

Launched in 2011 the Asia Communication Awards recognize the companies and individual driving the success of the Asian based telecom industry to a global audience. Since their launch, the awards have gathered an impressive following and are now truly a respected mark of achievement in the industry. Organized by Total Telecom, the Asia Communication Awards are modelled on the phenomenally successful World Communication Awards, mirroring their fierce independence to ensure true leaders are rewarded. The fifth annual Asia Communication Awards were presented to outstanding carriers and vendors in Asia by Total Telecom, the region’s major telecom publishing group. A panel of telecom experts selected winners in 16 categories.

NTT Com named Operator of the Year for the 2nd consecutive year. The award recognizes that NTT Com has expanded its business through enhancement of Global Seamless Services and acquisitions, particularly in making major investments in data centers to accelerate the expansion of cloud infrastructure. “A highly competitive category this year see a win for NTT Com that has transforming itself, expanding capabilities and moving away from being a pure-play telecom operator,” according to judging panel.

Best Enterprise Service is awarded for Service Providers providing high quality services combined with several years of development and successful deployment to end users. Under a service brand of Global Management One, NTT Com provides a one-stop, global, seamless management for IT ecosystems. It encompasses NTT Com’s service portfolio and leverages global capabilities and best practice in complete, end-to-end management. “NTT Com demonstrated a high quality offering for large companies and those expanding and needing a global footprint, and supported their entry with good testimonials”, according to judging panel.

NTT Com will continue to strengthen and expand its ICT infrastructure and services in the APAC region and beyond as the ideal Global ICT partner.

For more information about NTT Com’s awards, visit www.ntt.com/strength/leader/data/awards.html

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and 130 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
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TOKYO, JAPAN – NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT (NYSE: NTT) Group, announced today that it received the Japan Unified Communications-as-a-Service Provider of the Year award at the 2015 Frost & Sullivan Japan Excellence Awards held in Tokyo on June 4. The award was presented to the company that provided the best unified communication services in 2014.

The Frost & Sullivan Japan Excellence Awards, now celebrating their fifth year, recognize outstanding achievements in the past year. The awards are hosted by Frost & Sullivan, which employs 1,800 analysts and provides research and consulting services to over 300 different industries.

The Japan Unified Communication-as-a-Service Provider of the Year award was presented to NTT Com based on a thorough evaluation covering categories such as revenue growth, market share, customer acquisitions and solution innovations.

According to Jessie Yu, Industry Manager, Asia Pacific ICT Practice at Frost & Sullivan, “In recent years, NTT Communications has built a compelling value proposition in offering cloud-based UC services in Japan. Global footprint of network infrastructure, breadth and scalability of service portfolio and customer service & support are the key differentiators for NTT Communications to win customers at the early stage of the market. With the continual enhancement of feature-set and capacity for both Cisco and Microsoft platforms, brand recognition of cloud-based UC services – “Arcstar” – has improved significantly across medium to large Japanese enterprises in 2014. The service provider is also making new investment in SIP trunking area, which becomes one of the key differentiators against its competitors.”

“Moving forward, flexibility, mobile connection and recognizable user interface will be the main values for cloud-based UC services to deliver seamless and integrated voice, video and data communications. Global network infrastructure, breadth of service portfolio and SLA (service level agreement) will open up new opportunities for NTT Communications both in Japan and worldwide in the near future.”

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Arcstar UCaaS
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Arctstar SIP Trunking
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NTT Communications Launches Arcstar UCaaS MicrosoftR Type as New Unified Communication Service for Global Business
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About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and 130 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
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NTT Communications wins 3 categories at Telecom Asia Awards 2015

TOKYO, JAPAN — NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT (NYSE: NTT) Group, announced today that it has won the categories of Best International Wholesale Carrier, Best Data Center Services Provider and Best Cloud Based Service in the 2015 Telecom Asia Awards, during a gala ceremony in Jakarta on May 20.

Now in its 18th year, the awards are the region’s longest-running and most prestigious telecom industry awards. They reward innovative and outstanding performance by Asian service providers and industry executives. The winners were chosen by a panel of 13 independent judges. Awards were presented in 16 categories.

NTT Com received Best Cloud-Based Service for the 3rd consecutive year. The award recognizes the outstanding performance, high user evaluation and advanced technology of NTT Com’s cloud enabled Arcstar Universal One™ (UNO). “NTT Com impressed the judges by being the first to commercialize SDN/NFV-enabled cloud services on a global scale, allowing enterprises to activate their own services and pay on a per-use basis, years ahead of other players in the field,” according to judging panel. By combining SDN and NFV technology, NTT Com enhances flexible, virtualized, on-demand WAN capabilities for enterprises.

Best Data Center Services Provider is awarded for Service Providers providing best in class data center services, covering data center services for both in-house and third-party users. Under a service brand of “Nexcenter”, NTT Com launched three Data Centers in APAC in 2014 including Bangalore, Cyberjaya and Shanghai. “With its strong presence in Asia-Pacific, as well as service innovation and impressive customer service, NTT Com has displayed its ability to provide serious competition to other third-party regional and global data center service providers.”, according to judging panel.

NTT Com was also named Best International Wholesale Carrier for the second time since 2011. NTT Com’s Tier-1 Global IP Network, which serves over 1,000 customers worldwide, has retained its position as Asia’s top wholesaler in terms of total network prefixes, according to Internet intelligence provider Dyn Research (formerly Renesys).

For more information about NTT Com’s awards, visit www.ntt.com/aboutus_e/award/index.html#telecom_asia

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides consultancy, architecture, security and cloud services to optimize the information and communications technology (ICT) environments of enterprises. These offerings are backed by the company’s worldwide infrastructure, including the leading global tier-1 IP network, the Arcstar Universal One™ VPN network reaching 196 countries/regions, and 130 secure data centers worldwide. NTT Communications’ solutions leverage the global resources of NTT Group companies including Dimension Data, NTT DOCOMO and NTT DATA.
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