TOKYO -- NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced today the launch of Global e-VLAN, an updated version of its Global Super Link (GSL) wide-area Ethernet service, which will seamlessly connect with NTT Com’s domestic wide-area Ethernet service e-VLAN (Category1) on December 1, 2008.

The service provides multipoint-to-multipoint Ethernet connections and users will be able to communicate between their offices in Japan and other countries by connecting their e-VLAN and Global e-VLAN as a unified layer 2 network, which will enable customer to use global network as an extension of LAN (local area network) and give flexibility in IP address design on customer side.

The connection point between e-VLAN and Global e-VLAN is a congestion-free and the customer can fully experience the advantage of high-bandwidth connection seamlessly.Global e-VLAN is offered in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Netherlands, Germany, Singapore, Hong Kong, Taiwan, mainland China and South Korea. More countries will be added gradually.

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