IT Equipment and Terminals business area

In this area, NTT R&D is working toward the commercialization of optical disagregatied computing, a new computing platform proposed by NTT R&D.

This computing infrastructure is characterized by allocating the optimal amount of various accelerators, such as GPUs and FPGAs, to each processing of each application running on this infrastructure, and by connecting these CPU-offloaded accelerators with high capacity and low latency through the optical interconnect function powered by the photonics-electronics convergence devices.

This architecture allows system capacity to be increased on a per-accelerator basis rather than on a per-server basis. This means we can improve overall system performance and energy efficiency while avoiding CPU bottlenecks.

By applying this architecture to the NTT Group's internal systems, we aim to achieve carbon neutrality for the NTT Group. Of course, we will provide opportunities for a wide range of users outside the NTT Group to use this server systems as service infrastructure.

In order to contribute to the carbon neutrality of society as a whole, we are promoting efforts to realize DCI (Data Centric Infrastructure) as a form of realization.