March 2007 Vol. 5 No. 3

Strategies

• The Challenge of Creating an Optical Broadband and Ubiquitous Network Society

R&D Spirits

• Environmental Management in the NTT Group Toward a Sustainable ICT Society

Special Feature: Technologies that Support Environmental Protection Efforts

• NTT Group Activities Toward a Sustainable Society
• Formulation of Guidelines for ICT Eco-efficiency Evaluation at the Japan Forum on Eco-Efficiency
• Environmental Load Reduction Effects of Ubiquitous Broadband Services
• Assessing the Environmental Impact of ICT Solutions at NTT DATA
• Cell Phones Using Bioplastic
• Gross Social Feel-good Index - ocial Impact Assessment for ICT Services

Special Feature: The Future of IP and Optical Networking Technologies

• Research and Development of IP and Optical Networking
• Multilayer Service Network Architecture and Its Key Technologies
• Multilayer Traffic Engineering (TE) Based on IP Optical TE Server
• Layer-1 Virtual Private Networks-Service Concepts and Enabling Technologies

R&D Information

• Compact Six-sector Antenna Using Three Intersecting Dual-beam Microstrip Yagi-Uda Arrays with Common Director

Global Standardization Activities

• NID (Networked ID) Standardization Activities in ITU-T