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Three-way networks collaboration
NTT has launched a collaborative study with
Alcatel-Lucent Japan and Fujitsu to develop server architecture for future networks. The companies say the project
aims to realise a server architecture that maximises the common part of various functionalities of communication networks with reliability, scalability and easy maintenance. They say the architecture will allow service providers to develop their services efficiently by focusing only on their logic. The primary roles of three
participating companies are as follows: l NTT will provide the telecom carrier requirements and the core technology for distributed computing with scale-out and redundant architecture;
l Alcatel-Lucent Japan will provide the system requirements based on the global market and to provide the technologies for
server virtualisation and orchestration that meet the operation and maintenance requirements of telecom carriers; and
l Fujitsu will provide the systematisation of distributed computing and provide maintenance and operation technology of scale-out communication control server. A statement from the three
companies said: ‘The project aims to establish new server architecture that will enable the three partners to develop service applications at an early stage. ‘In addition, this collaboration
aims to expand and apply the resulting technology to support other fields that require reliability, scalability, and maintainability including financial or medical fields, as well as in the communication network field in the future. The desire of the involved companies is to see this technology spread and become a global standard.’
BT to invest further £50 million in UK broadband
BT is invest a further £50 million into its commercial fibre broadband programme over the next three years, it has announced. The investment will benefit more than 30 cities, helping to make high-speed broadband available to 400,000 additional premises. The telecom operator is spending
more than £3 billion on deploying fibre broadband and its open-access fibre network already passes more than 18 million homes and businesses. The footprint is likely to grow rapidly as rural fibre programmes are delivered. UK fibre broadband availability
currently stands at 73 per cent, when all networks are taken into account. The current Broadband Delivery UK programme, which receives financial support from both central and local
government, is set to extend that coverage to around 90 per cent by late 2015 or early 2016. Mike Galvin, managing director for
network investment at Openreach, said: ‘Our fibre programme is going extremely well with our engineers connecting homes and businesses across the UK. Some city areas have proved challenging in the past but we are returning to those and will pass hundreds of thousands of additional premises with fibre. ‘We are reaching vast swathes of
rural Britain with our public sector partners but we will upgrade these city areas under our own steam. Businesses in cities already have access to ultra-fast speeds but fibre will give them greater choice.’
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