NTT Offers Bursty Ethernet

TOKYO -- NTT Communications (NTT Com) announced today that it will introduce on July 1 an option that enables corporate users of NTT Com’s e-VLAN, Arcstar™ IP-VPN and Business OCN services in Japan to flexibly and economically configure their networks to handle sudden, temporary bursts of data traffic.

Network data traffic has risen dramatically due to the increasing use of e-mail, browsing, groupware applications, data management for control and security, and network-based computing applications such software as a service (SaaS). Moreover, traffic volume can vary widely within one day or longer, placing a heavy burden on network resources. For many companies, however, the cost of adding sufficient bandwidth to deal with these data bursts can be quite high.

NTT Com will offer these companies "Burst Ether Access," a cost-effective option for securing burstable bandwidth when data traffic suddenly spikes. Two menus will be available: "Burst 10" will provide commited bandwidth of 1 Mbps and the capacity to burst up to 10 Mbps, while "Burst 100" will provide commited 10 Mbps , burstable to 100 Mbps.

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