Gateway to Africa - Bankkaufmann

London, November 23 (ots/PRNewswire) -

NTT Europe builds on Dimension Data acquisition to capitalise
on African opportunities

NTT Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications
Corporation (NTT Com), announced today that NTT Com's Europe-Asia
network is now connected to the Europe-Africa network of Internet
Solutions, a subsidiary of Dimension Data, via a Network to Network
Interface (NNI).

The NNI between NTT Com and Internet Solutions connects 31 cities
across 12 countries in Africa including South Africa, Angola,
Botswana, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria,
Tanzania, and Uganda and is one of the major steps in the partnership
from NTT's acquisition of Dimension Data.

Masaaki Moribayashi, managing director, NTT Europe, said: 'To
provide our customers with a global network and open up access to
Africa, we needed to either 'partner' or 'build'. Building would be a
slow process and would not provide extensive in-country connectivity.
Partnering with Internet Solutions meant the NNI was enabled in
weeks, not months or years, and NNI provides a direct connection to
key African regions for new and existing clients. We have mapped and
tested our suite of MPLS products against the capabilities of
Internet Solution's network and will deliver identical high level of
service across the IS backbone.'

Glenn Maule, general manager EU, Internet Solutions said,
'Working with NTT Com to expand Internet Solution's coverage within
Europe and particularly Asia is very exciting and beneficial to our
client base. In South Africa, 85% of the Top 250 listed companies use
IS backbone for internet connectivity and IP-VPN. The demand to reach
financial centres in other regions is increasing rapidly and we
believe IS is now best placed as preferred partner to offer that
service.'

In order to ensure clients based in Africa can access Asia
quickly, the two organisations are currently investigating an
additional NNI in the APAC area.

About NTT Europe

NTT Europe is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of NTT
Communications which is the global data and IP services arm of the
Fortune Global 500 telecom leader, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone
Corporation (NTT). NTT Europe is responsible for business in the EMEA
market and provides a world-class Tier-1 Internet backbone, secure
closed networks, security, system integration, network and
application management, managed hosting and global content delivery
services with partner companies globally. For additional information,
please visit http://www.eu.ntt.com

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides a broad range of global networks,
management solutions and IT services to customers worldwide. The
company is renowned for reliable, high-quality security, hosting,
voice, data and IP services, as well as expertise in managed networks
and leadership in IPv6 transit technology. NTT Communications'
extensive infrastructure includes Arcstar(TM) Global IP-VPN and
Global e-VLAN, as well as a Tier-1 IP Backbone reaching more than 150
countries in partnership with major Internet service providers, and
secure data centres in Asia, North America and Europe. NTT
Communications 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 http://www.ntt.com.

Internet Solutions
[http://www.is.co.za/AboutUs/Pages/default.aspx ] facts and figures

- Service areas: South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya,
Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
- Over 65% of all internet traffic in South Africa resides on the
IS Network
- Over 85% of the top 250 listed companies use Internet Solutions
- More than 30% of all DSL circuits in South Africa connect via
the Internet Solutions backbone
- In South Africa alone, 14 500 WWW and 18 000 MPLS leased lines
with over 11, 500 business ADSL lines terminate at Internet Solutions

ots Originaltext: NTT Europe Ltd
Im Internet recherchierbar: http://www.presseportal.de

Contact:
NTT Europe Marketing, EuropeanMarketing@ntt.eu, Tel:
+44(0)207-797-1000