NTT said it is interested in servers based on general purpose hardware that enable faster development of applications. In this server architecture, all network functions would be realized on network-wide virtualized hardware.
NTT Laboratories will contribute core technologies. Alcatel-Lucent Japan is developing virtualization and orchestration technologies for network server systems, and Fujitsu has extensive experience in systematization of distributed computing and maintaining large-scale server systems.
The project is now underway.