Gateway to Africa

Gateway to Africa

LONDON, November 23, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

NTT Europe builds on Dimension Data acquisition to capitalise
on African opportunities

NTT Europe, a wholly owned subsidiary of NTT Communications Corporation
(NTT Com), announced today that NTT Com's Europe-Asia network is now
connected to the Europe-Africa network of Internet Solutions, a subsidiary
of Dimension Data, via a Network to Network Interface (NNI).

The NNI between NTT Com and Internet Solutions connects 31 cities across
12 countries in Africa including South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Ghana,
Kenya, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda and is
one of the major steps in the partnership from NTT's acquisition of
Dimension Data.

Masaaki Moribayashi, managing director, NTT Europe, said: 'To provide
our customers with a global network and open up access to Africa, we needed
to either 'partner' or 'build'. Building would be a slow process and would
not provide extensive in-country connectivity. Partnering with Internet
Solutions meant the NNI was enabled in weeks, not months or years, and NNI
provides a direct connection to key African regions for new and existing
clients. We have mapped and tested our suite of MPLS products against the
capabilities of Internet Solution's network and will deliver identical high
level of service across the IS backbone.'

Glenn Maule, general manager EU, Internet Solutions said, 'Working with
NTT Com to expand Internet Solution's coverage within Europe and
particularly Asia is very exciting and beneficial to our client base. In
South Africa, 85% of the Top 250 listed companies use IS backbone for
internet connectivity and IP-VPN. The demand to reach financial centres in
other regions is increasing rapidly and we believe IS is now best placed as
preferred partner to offer that service.'

In order to ensure clients based in Africa can access Asia quickly, the
two organisations are currently investigating an additional NNI in the APAC
area.

About NTT Europe

NTT Europe is a wholly-owned subsidiary company of NTT Communications
which is the global data and IP services arm of the Fortune Global 500
telecom leader, Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corporation (NTT). NTT Europe
is responsible for business in the EMEA market and provides a world-class
Tier-1 Internet backbone, secure closed networks, security, system
integration, network and application management, managed hosting and global
content delivery services with partner companies globally. For additional
information, please visit http://www.eu.ntt.com

About NTT Communications Corporation

NTT Communications provides a broad range of global networks, management
solutions and IT services to customers worldwide. The company is renowned
for reliable, high-quality security, hosting, voice, data and IP services,
as well as expertise in managed networks and leadership in IPv6 transit
technology. NTT Communications' extensive infrastructure includes
Arcstar(TM) Global IP-VPN and Global e-VLAN, as well as a Tier-1 IP Backbone
reaching more than 150 countries in partnership with major Internet service
providers, and secure data centres in Asia, North America and Europe. NTT
Communications is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Nippon Telegraph and
Telephone Corporation, one of the world's largest telecoms with listings on
the Tokyo, London and New York stock exchanges. Please visit
http://www.ntt.com.

Internet Solutions [http://www.is.co.za/AboutUs/Pages/default.aspx ]
facts and figures

- Service areas: South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Ghana, Kenya,
Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, Zimbabwe
- Over 65% of all internet traffic in South Africa resides on the
IS Network
- Over 85% of the top 250 listed companies use Internet Solutions
- More than 30% of all DSL circuits in South Africa connect via
the Internet Solutions backbone
- In South Africa alone, 14 500 WWW and 18 000 MPLS leased lines
with over 11, 500 business ADSL lines terminate at Internet Solutions

Source: NTT Europe

NTT Europe Marketing, EuropeanMarketing@ntt.eu, Tel: +44(0)207-797-1000

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