About Us

Introduction

NTT Information Network Laboratory Group will contribute to the realization of the full-scale Innovative Optical & Wireless Network (IOWN). In order to achieve this, we are advancing research and development on themes that consider our role as an operating company that will support the infrastructure of the information society of the future, from the perspectives of "improving quality and reliability," "improving flexibility and serviceability," and "improving sustainability."

In terms of improving quality, reliability, flexibility, and serviceability, we will realize various optical path processing functions with Photonic Exchange and Photonic Gateway, which minimize electrical processing, in the All-Photonics Network (APN), one of the components of IOWN. We will also promote research and development of controllers that control APNs based on user requirements and create technologies to provide optical paths end-to-end through optical full-mesh networks. In wireless communications, in addition to large capacity and low latency, we will work on research and development of proactive wireless control technologies that follow changes in the wireless environment and elemental technologies that extend coverage to unexplored areas to meet user needs and achieve rapid service delivery. In addition, we will establish a network architecture for the full-scale deployment of IOWN, which integrates fixed and mobile networks and links application services and user terminals on the network. We are also engaged in research and development to prevent the impact of large-scale disasters on network services and to reduce recovery time.
From the perspective of improving sustainability, we will work to resolve issues related to sustainable social infrastructure projects and contribute to reducing of the environmental impact of our customers, companies, and society by technologies that reduce society's impact on the global environment to close to net zero, and technologies that enable society to accept the impact of changes in the global environment.

Research findings from NTT Information Network Laboratory Group are being used not just by NTT operating companies, but also by information and communication services around the world, both in Japan and abroad, to support the infrastructure of the information society.

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Due to the spread of remote conference in the wake of the pandemic and the recent spread of cloud and AI technology, communication has become an indispensable part of people's social lives, not just connecting people to people and information to people, but also as an optimal and natural connection, including all things and things. Furthermore, ICT is expected to create new value beyond the existing industrial structure and contribute to the sustainable development of society.

In order to meet these expectations, NTT Information Network Laboratory Group has established a network architecture when a full-scale IOWN is introduced, and is developing a roadmap in collaboration with various related organizations, while promoting the research and development of nodes, operations, transport networks, and access networks to make optical paths available on demand, and the research and development of innovative environmental energy technologies that contribute to zero environmental impact.

The Laboratory Group consists of the following three research laboratories, which transcend the limitations of conventional technologies and the barriers of power consumption to promote the R&D of innovative information and communications technologies that will support society in the future in collaboration with researchers and business partners in Japan and abroad.

NTT Network Service Systems Laboratories

Research and development of the infrastructure technologies and communication traffic, quality and operations that will underpin the network architecture and network systems that make up the networks of the future

NTT Access Network Service Systems Laboratories

Research and development of access systems, wireless access, optical fiber, infrastructure and operation technologies in order to create a smart society

NTT Space Environment and Energy Laboratories

Research and development of environmental impact reduction and overwhelmingly clean next-generation energy, as well as technologies to predict and react to the future of the global environmental and society

In order to produce a comfortable society, we will work with pride in our daily research and development activities so that we can create innovative technologies that take full advantage of the potential of information and communications and plot a path that will be implemented in society.

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