NTT Communications and 22 of its global telecommunications-carrier partners agreed on a number of policies aimed at improving global network service quality.
During the Arcstar Carrier Forum 2015, which took place in Tokyo on June 2 and 3, the parties agreed to increase availability, decrease failure rates and strive for a number of other improvements measured by key performance indicators (KPI). These include:
- Increase availability
- Decrease failure rates
- Reduce instances of long-term failure
- Improve rate of determining reason for outage as failure occurs
- Improve rate of on-time delivery to customer
- Decrease lead time for line delivery
The Arcstar Carrier Forum is an international conference organized by NTT Com to consider strategies for strengthening Arcstar-branded managed network services for multinational corporations.
NTT Com Partner Carriers that Attended Arcstar Carrier Forum 2015
China: China Telecom Global Limited
Korea: KT Corporation
Hong Kong: Hutchison Global Communications Limited
Hong Kong: Wharf T&T Limited
Taiwan: Chunghwa Telecom Co., Ltd.
Philippines: Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company
Indonesia: PT Indosat tbk
Indonesia: PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia International
Vietnam: Vietnam Datacommunication
Malaysia: Telekom Malaysia Berhad
Thailand: CAT Telecom Public Company Limited
India: Tata Communications Ltd.
India: Bharti Airtel Limited
Australia: Telstra Japan K.K.
Australia: Singtel Optus Pty Limited
France: Orange Business Services
UK: Colt Technology Services
UK: Interoute Communications Limited
South Africa: Internet Solutions a division of Dimension Data
USA: Verizon Communications Inc.
USA: XO Communications
South America: Neutrona Networks
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