NTT and Cisco jointly provide hybrid office solutions to lay the foundation for the future of work

We are entering a new normal in the way we work. The sudden rise of remote work has people rethinking how companies and teams should conduct business activities when face-to-face meetings cannot be held. Organizations across industries are looking for ways to break through the status quo, from implementing flexible working arrangements to ensuring a safe return to the workplace. Although this process is challenging, it also brings unprecedented opportunities to completely break the constraints of where the work is and fundamentally change the way employees work. A new hybrid workplace awaits us in the future.

At the same time, NTT also found that in the face of changing office production needs from customers, employees, etc., the company's IT team not only needs to provide corresponding tools, but more importantly, build an IT infrastructure that can better adapt to relevant needs from an overall perspective. This involves the following aspects:

1) Overall planning and construction of collaborative communication systems and related tools;

2) Supporting the construction and elastic expansion of basic networks for mobile and flexible office work;

3) Overall security maintenance and management construction to ensure the security of important information assets and the smooth operation of the infrastructure.

After years of hard work in the industry, NTT has teamed up with Cisco, an industry-leading solution provider, to provide corresponding solutions for the ongoing industry transformation of hybrid office.

Collaborative communication system

In recent years, Cisco has been continuously updating and evolving its collaborative communication solutions. In response to the current hybrid office trend, its video and voice convergence solution can achieve full integration of audio and video communication based on Cisco's own control platform. At the same time, it can seamlessly integrate Cisco's platform solutions with many public cloud SaaS services (Feishu, Tencent Meeting, Zoom, etc.) based on standard protocols, allowing customers and their partners to achieve on-demand collaborative communication anytime and anywhere while maintaining their own usage habits and communication quality.

SDWAN Solutions

Enterprises need to use more flexible and controllable basic network services to support flexible hybrid office models. Based on Cisco SDWAN wide area network technology, NTT enables customers to flexibly control the underlying network architecture while also providing high availability and security. Cisco SDWAN can achieve intelligent routing for high-level application data, easily ensure the communication quality of delay-sensitive data, and also ensure the transmission economy of non-core businesses.

Cisco SDWAN is a new generation of WAN architecture that uses a software-defined approach to build a WAN. This new approach provides the advantages of reducing transportation costs, simplifying deployment operations, and improving application flexibility and performance.

SDWAN technology achieves long-term controllable cost optimization by adjusting the data transmission path, such as transmitting business data through more cost-effective Internet lines instead of high-cost links such as MPLS. Although traditional architectures can use these links, traditional WAN technology cannot provide effective quality monitoring, latency control, and overall optimization for key businesses for Internet lines. Now, using low-cost links can be achieved using software-defined methods such as SDWAN.

Since SDWAN technology uses abstract modeling to achieve multiple levels of management, including control-level management of virtual links and control optimization at the transmission level, and through best practice templates and automated deployment, it makes it possible to reduce costs and increase efficiency in WAN transmission. Once SDWAN technology is planned and deployed, it will become a process-based, easily replicable modular management method that can achieve more agile business readiness, rapid network initialization deployment, and capacity expansion deployment, achieving on-demand adjustment of network infrastructure operation and maintenance requirements while minimizing the impact on network applications and infrastructure.

The application-aware routing technology based on SDWAN can realize network self-healing, which is a function that traditional network routing protocols cannot achieve. This function can not only improve the user experience of network terminal users, but also provide customers with unprecedented ability to manage the WAN in a refined manner.

The SDWAN solution can also provide security protection and optimized user experience for cloud application access, and can provide refined network isolation, thereby changing the traditional network structure where cloud application external access traffic still needs to flow back to the total non-aggregation node, resulting in additional bandwidth consumption and delay, which brings additional costs and experience degradation. At the same time, it also provides better protection for the security of traffic access, providing indispensable security protection while upgrading the experience.

Comprehensive security protection based on zero trust

While the flexible hybrid office mechanism brings efficiency improvements to employees and enterprises, it also creates unprecedented security risks. With a large number of mobile employees accessing internal enterprise information resources through remote access, and more and more interactive access between enterprises, in the face of increasingly complex security threats, NTT has implemented the "zero trust" security mechanism advocated by Cisco through integrated security solutions, providing enterprises with a complete security implementation plan.

By integrating Cisco security solutions, it is possible to establish a strategy for collecting security-related feature information for enterprises in the new hybrid office environment, establish a complete evaluation system for network access behavior, and provide early warning and protection against potential threats or threatening behaviors.

NTT's Security Services

NTT provides overall security services starting with security consulting. Based on NTT's many years of experience in the IT industry, NTT has complete security consulting practice capabilities and can provide services in customer security management systems, security risk prevention, security system operation and maintenance, etc. And it can provide professional integrated services to respond to issues reported by customer interviews.

About NTT

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