The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) and PT Telkom Indonesia (Persero) Tbk (Telkom Indonesia) have established the APAC Telecom Innovation Initiative (ATII) as a joint research and development initiative to create new network services in the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region, looking beyond 2020 focusing on virtual infrastructure technologies. The initiative will develop technical studies and proof of concepts regarding requirements for new network services in the virtualisation era, and aims to expand this initiative together with various partners, including other service providers, who share the initiative’s goals. Initially, the following three projects have been established – high value-added network services, server platform virtualisation, and flexible access network virtualisation.
