KDDI Selects Oracle SuperCluster to Support Rapid Data Growth

Communications Leader Consolidates Legacy Infrastructure on Oracle SuperCluster to Support Increased Data Volume for Smartphone and LTE Services

Kuala Lumpur, 24 January 2014 - Oracle Corporation (NYSE: ORCL), the industry’s leading enterprise Cloud service provider, today announces KDDI Corporation has selected Oracle SuperCluster, Oracle’s fastest engineered system, to help strengthen the authentication system for its mobile core network.

KDDI’s mobile communication service has 40 million subscribers as of September 2013, and the company has seen a rapid increase in smartphone users and adoption of its “au 4G LTE” next-gen high-speed service in the last year.

With increased demand for data transactions and traffic, KDDI wants to strengthen its authentication system for managing subscriber information and connectivity information for smartphone and mobile phone users.

KDDI purchased Oracle SuperCluster in July 2013 and they uses Oracle SuperCluster for running Oracle Solaris and Oracle VM Server for SPARC with Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database. The company chose the engineered system based on the following benefits for its mobile core network authentication system:

o 40:1 consolidation: KDDI is consolidating 40 existing enterprise servers onto a single Oracle SuperCluster, which it expects will reduce its data center footprint by 83 percent and power consumption by 70 percent.
o Improved System Performance and Availability: Four Oracle SuperCluster systems will help significantly improve overall system performance, and enable KDDI to scale to accommodate future growth.
o Flexible Expansion and Resource Allocation: Using Oracle VM Server for SPARC, KDDI can reallocate resources and more easily add capacity as business demand grows.  This virtualization technology also allows sub-capacity licensing of Oracle software on Oracle SuperCluster, which can dramatically lower Oracle middleware, database and application software license costs.

The project utilized the Oracle Solution Center, Oracle Japan’s validation center, to jointly conduct performance and functionality validation with ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC).

FUJITSU INTRODUCES JAPAN’S WATER AND DUST PROOF SMARTPHONE FEATURING WINDOWS PHONE 7.5 – IS12T

Tokyo, September 5, 2011 — KDDI Corporation (Head office: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; President: Takashi Tanaka) and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company (Head office: Naha, Okinawa; Representative Director and President; Hiroshi Kitagawa) will introduce "Windows Phone IS12T," manufactured by Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications Limited (Head office: Kawasaki, Kanagawa; President: Nobuo Otani). The Windows® Phone IS12T, available after September 2011, will feature the smartphone operating system "Windows Phone 7.5," provided by Microsoft Japan Co., Ltd. (Head office: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Yasuyuki Higuchi; hereafter: Microsoft).
Windows® Phone IS12T is Japan's first water- and dust-proof smartphone featuring Windows Phone 7.5. In addition to much smoother operability compared to conventional smartphones, the device offers the highest quality camera for a smartphone with 13.2 megapixels, and 32 GB of internal memory, while realizing a compact size. Users can not only read and edit Microsoft Office documents, but can also store and share data through Windows Live SkyDrive, a free-of-charge cloud service operated by Microsoft. It is an attractive smartphone employing the abundant applications and technology of Internet Explorer® 9, the latest web browser for PCs to realize Internet capabilities.
Windows Phone® IS12T is now displayed at KDDI Designing Studio in Harajuku, Tokyo, and au NAGOYA in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture.

Tyco Telecommunications and NEC Begin Construction of Unity Cable System

Tokyo, June 24, 2008 – Tyco Telecommunications (US) Inc. and NEC Corporation today announced the commencement of construction on the Unity Cable System, a high-bandwidth, trans-Pacific, optical submarine cable system that will link Los Angeles, U.S. to Chikura, Japan. The contract for the project was signed on February 23, 2008, between the Unity Consortium, comprising of six purchasers, Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, Google, KDDI, Pacnet and SingTel and suppliers Tyco Telecommunications and NEC Corporation.

“Tyco Telecommunications is proud to be a system supplier for the Unity Cable System, a state-of-the-art long haul system that will provide additional connectivity and capacity between regions of the world that increasingly require more bandwidth,” said Bill Marra, General Manager of Tyco Telecommunications.

The Unity Cable System is a multi-fiber pair system, with each fiber pair capable of carrying up to 960 Gigabits of data per second. Tyco Telecommunications and NEC will each manufacture a portion of the undersea system. Tyco Telecommunications will install the undersea cable from the U.S. end and NEC will install the undersea cable from the Japan end. The cables will be interfaced on the seabed of the Pacific Ocean.

"NEC is extremely excited to take part in this significant cable build, which will provide high speed connectivity between the U.S. and Japan. We truly believe this cable will become the backbone of the Pacific information highway," commented Osamu Harada, General Manager of NEC's Submarine Network Division.

The Unity Cable System will meet the demand for connectivity between the U.S. and Japan that has been increasing since the activation of the last trans-Pacific system in 2002. Additionally, the Unity Cable System will connect to various intra-Asian cable systems, to facilitate seamless connectivity to other major cities in Asia.