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NTT Com Global Service to Host Virtual Offices

TOKYO, JAPAN - NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced today that on April 1 it will launch a global hosting service that creates office PC environments which are securely accessible from anywhere using a USB key.

The service, named Virtual Office Hosting, will be provided under NTT Com’s BizCITY® model for enterprise services that customers access securely from anyplace at anytime.

The new service will enable employees to safely replicate their office computer’s desktop environment at home, in a domestic or remote office, or a shared PC in a hotel business center. Users will simply insert a personalized "MagicConnect" USB key into their remote PC to access office e-mail and run office applications and groupware on a virtual PC hosted with VMware Infrastructure 3 virtualization technology at NTT Com’s robust data center in Hong Kong. All information will be secure because no data will be stored in the remote PC.

Virtual Office Hosting will be available initially in Mainland China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand and Vietnam. Expansion into other regions is envisioned. Support will be provided in Japanese between 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. on business days, and in English and Chinese on a 24/7 basis.

Service options will include applications such as Microsoft® Office, messaging (mail, scheduler and groupware), antivirus software, data backup and virtual PC management. Service charges excluding tax are as follows:

Virtual Office Hosting is expected to help meet growing needs for enterprise employees to have secure access to their office PCs while away from office, including while travelling overseas. The service will also help enterprises to reduce total cost of ownership of their ICT resources, and to secure environments that ensure global business continuity even during emergencies.

"VMware is committed to providing the industry’s most comprehensive virtualization platform, offering customers a highly flexible and scalable virtual datacenter operating system (VDC-OS). VMware solutions can be deployed rapidly by service providers such as NTT Communications as the foundation for innovative services. NTT Communications’ successful rollout of its new services demonstrates the critical role of VMware’s VDC-OS in transforming the datacenter into a cloud environment that addresses customers’ stringent demands for flexibility, speed and resiliency in their IT systems. The ability of VMware-based clouds to federate with other cloud environments has the potential to further enhance the flexibility and scalability of these solutions and help service providers deliver maximum performance and cost savings to customers," said William Shelton, director, emerging products and solutions, VMware,Inc.

Hiroyuki Tsutsumi, managing director of Cisco Systems G.K., a major supplier of network equipment to NTT Com, says: "NTT Com’s global SaaS hosting platform is highly relevant to today’s fast-changing global business because it supports diversified work environments. In partnership with VMware, Cisco Systems is pursuing the virtualization of applications and networks for cloud-computing network services available anytime, anywhere."

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Com delivers high-quality voice, data and IP services to customers around the world. The company is renowned for its diverse information and communication services, expertise in managed networks, hosting and IP networking services, and industry leadership in IPv6 transit technology. The company’s extensive global infrastructure includes Arcstar™ private networks and a Tier 1 IP backbone (connected with major ISPs worldwide), both reaching more than 150 countries, as well as secure data centers in Asia, North America and Europe. NTT Com is the wholly owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, one of the world’s largest telecoms with listings on the Tokyo, London and New York stock exchanges. Please visit www.ntt.com/index-e.html.

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