Japan’s NTT Corporation and Taiwan’s Chunghwa Telecom Co. de have partnered around the concept of Innovative Optical and Wireless Network (IOWN), which promotes the use of photonic technologies to expand a high-speed, high-capacity network and processing infrastructure.
According to its website, NTT pioneered the IOWN concept to “[transform] existing communication and data systems” and “[realize] a new data and communication infrastructure that goes beyond the limits of existing ICT technology. “
NTT and Chunghwa Telecom said the partnership would use the “all-photonic network” to identify foreign network connectivity, enabling knowledge between Japan and Taiwan.
To expand its IOWN concept, NTT created the IOWN World Forum in 2019 with Intel and Sony. According to the Japanese company, the aim of this form is to publicise the concept through the publication of specifications, frameworks and reference architectures of new technologies in spaces. such as studies and progression of distributed computing and photonics using complex photoelectric fusion technology, as well as more productive instances and practices.
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