NTT Corp. and Chunghwa Telecom announced they have activated the first all-photonics network between Taiwan and Japan with approximately 17 msec on an approximately 3,000 km one-way network, according to the companies.
This IOWN (Innovative Optical and Wireless Network) connects Chunghwa Telecom’s headquarter in Taipei City with the Musashino R&D Center in Japan “and achieved low latency, no jitter and stable communication(s),” the companies said.
The network connects with 100 Gbps bandwidth of optical path and takes 33.84 msec as round-trip time (RTT). The network supports OAA, Open All-Photonic Network Functional Architecture, which is published by IOWN Global Forum.
NTT said it will provide data backup and replication services for disaster countermeasures to realize Smart Factory, and LLM (e.g., tsuzumi), etc., mainly for semiconductor and other manufacturing industries based in Taiwan and Japan. Chunghwa Telecom will apply this international APN to demonstrate low-latency interactive immersive entertainment in NTT R&D Forum 2024.
“I believe this connection could accelerate Japan-Taiwan industrial collaborations,” said Akira Shimada, president and CEO of NTT. “With diverse global service providers and vendors, NTT and CHT will develop and provide IOWN services worldwide.
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