NTT DATA CORP continue , and will not be sustainable . If we are successful in delivering the new greenenergy exchange technologies , it will help our business , will bring new opportunities globally in green markets , and will help our clients also deliver on their own sustainability commitments . That ’ s why we are investing a lot in these technologies .”
Wholesale transformation of infrastructure can be prohibitively expensive , but NTT ’ s all-photonics tech has one additional benefit : it is backwards compatible . “ We can adopt this technology inside existing computing infrastructure ,” Higashiyama says . “ If your computer has a motherboard , it is compatible with the all-photonics network and this technology . We can transmit the signal fully photonically .”
Open RAN is Key NTT group will begin deploying all-photonics technology in its domestic market by 2025 . But a wider rollout is contingent upon the development of Open RAN . Last year , NTT DOCOMO launched its 5G Open RAN ecosystem , the O-RAN Alliance . Formed of 12 global vendors – including Fujitsu , Mavenir , Intel K . K , Dell Technologies
YASUHIRO HIGASHIYAMA 139,700 Employees as of March 2021
TITLE : HEAD OF GLOBAL BUSINESS , TELECOM & UTILITY SECTOR
COMPANY : NTT DATA JAPAN LOCATION : TOKYO , JAPAN
1988
Year founded
2,897.0bn yen Revenue as of March 2021
EXECUTIVE BIO
Yasuhiro has 20 years of experience in the IT industry as an expert of CMT , leading global 5G innovations around the world with strong focus on Open network and cloud-native technologies . Until 2020 , he was based in London as a leader of Global Telecom and managed Global accounts in Europe and LatAm . He completed a Master of Science course at the University of Tokyo , majoring in quantum computing , and is looking forward to translating his studies into reality this decade .
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