NTT Ltd., a world leader in IT infrastructure and services, and SES, a world leader in the provision of satellite content connectivity services, today announced a multi-year partnership to use SES satellites to deliver Edge as a Servicefrom NTT to business customers. The cooperation will bring together NTT’s expertise in enterprise networking and managed services with SES’ unique satellite capabilities to provide reliable connectivity to enterprises that must meet peaks in connectivity demand or are located beyond the reach of fixed terrestrial networks.
The unique offering combines NTT’s fully managed Private 5G and Edge Compute with SES’ second generation medium earth orbit communications system, O3b mPOWER, to provide expanded and reliable connectivity. This solution is intended for companies that operate in regions where terrestrial networks are lacking and companies that want to take advantage of high-performance connectivity to increase their efficiency and grow in revenue. Through the combined versatility of private 5G networks and satellite technology, this end-to-end solution is expected to boost sectors such as energy, mining, marine, manufacturing, industrial, etc. to accelerate your digital transformation plans and increase revenue streams.
“We are excited to embark on this journey with SES, as we combine our collective expertise to help companies transform and scale digitally,” said Miriam Murphy, Managing Director Europe at NTT Ltd. “As organizations grapple with the challenges of a rapidly changing world, it is now more important than ever to harness the power of technology to drive growth and innovation.”
By putting control and ownership back in the hands of the customer, the joint solution will provide coverage in more than 190 countries with public-private roaming. In addition to NTT’s Private 5G and Edge Compute capabilities, NTT will also consult and profile use cases, application development, systems integration, deployment and managed services, while SES will deliver end-to-end satellite networks via O3b mPOWER, which will be perfectly integrated with NTT’s offer.
“Private 5G is a transformative power that enables enterprises to build on existing network infrastructure and deliver reliable, high-bandwidth, low-latency connections to diverse use cases operating on a single private 5G network,” said Olivier Posty , Managing Director of NTT Ltd. in Luxembourg. Posty adds, “As our customers continue to innovate, networking partnerships with the right skills and knowledge will be critical to success in today’s competitive marketplace. NTT’s robust 5G private network-as-a-service full-stack solution, delivered on-premises, at the edge or as a cloud service, is complemented by NTT’s 24/7 remote monitoring services and a CIO self-service, ensuring NTT’s full stack of managed Edge Compute services deliver real-time, actionable intelligence to drive processing efficiency and accelerate business performance.”
NTT’s Edge-as-a-Service offering includes IoT, Edge Compute and Private 5G connectivity provided by NTT across its worldwide footprint. NTT’s Edge-as-a-Service is a unique, fully managed and integrated solution that accelerates the automation of business processes, enabling companies to quickly deploy their applications more securely and monitor them closer to the edge, thereby reducing downtime, improving the user experience and optimizing costs.
“This partnership between NTT and SES is the industry’s first milestone at an industry-wide level, as it combines massive amounts of experience that both companies are bringing in each field, and the joint value proposition is ahead of the curve in terms of added value to be provided to customers. This will open up huge opportunities also in countries where 5G spectrum is not yet ready, enabling companies to transform on a global scale,” said Alejandro Cadenas, Associate Vice President, EMEA Telco Mobility Research, IDC.
According to John-Paul Hemingway, Director of Strategy at SES, the partnership is unique as both companies jointly provide comprehensive and resilient connectivity solutions to customers around the world. “In addition to its predictable low-latency capabilities, O3b mPOWER’s improved throughput and full flexibility in asymmetric or symmetric services will result in seamless integration and extension of terrestrial and satellite networks, enabling our customers to unlock the full potential of emerging technologies. such as 5G, IoT and cloud computing and drive digital transformation across all industries,” he said.
The partnership between NTT and SES comes at a time when organizations are increasingly turning to technology to drive growth and innovation. Organizations recognize the positive impact of high-speed connectivity and resilient networks on business operations, driving demand and fueling widespread digital transformation. By leveraging their respective strengths, NTT and SES are well positioned to provide customers with the innovative Edge as a Service solutions they need to succeed in a rapidly changing world.
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About NTT Ltd.
As part of NTT DATA, a $30 billion IT services provider, NTT Ltd. is a leading IT infrastructure and services company serving 65% of the Fortune Global 500 and more than 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We lay the groundwork for organizations’ edge-to-cloud networking ecosystem, simplify the complexity of your workloads in multi-cloud environments and we innovate at the periphery of your IT environments where networks, cloud and applications converge. We deliver custom infrastructure and ensure consistent best practices in design and operations across all of our secure, scalable, and customizable data centers. On the journey to a software-defined future, we support organizations with our platform-delivered infrastructure services. Ultimately, we enable a connected future.
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About SES
SES has a bold vision of delivering amazing experiences anywhere in the world by delivering the highest quality video content and providing seamless connectivity around the world. As a leader in global content connectivity solutions, SES operates the world’s only multi-orbit satellite constellation with the unique combination of international coverage and high performance, including the commercially proven low-latency medium earth orbit O3b system. By leveraging a vast and intelligent cloud-enabled network, SES is able to deliver high quality connectivity solutions anywhere on land, sea or air, being a trusted partner to the world’s leading telecommunications companies, network operators mobile, governments, connectivity and cloud service providers, broadcasters, video platform operators and content owners. SES’s video network carries nearly 8,000 channels and has an unrivaled reach of 369 million homes, offering managed media services for both linear and non-linear content. The company is listed on the Paris and Luxembourg stock exchanges (Ticker: SESG). More information is available at www.ses.com
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