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The Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT)  and Cisco have announced a collaboration to co-innovate and bring Private 5G technology and managed services to enterprise customers.

The companies aim to accelerate edge connectivity through NTT’s first-to-market managed Private 5G solution combined with Intel hardware.

The collaboration will enable customers to integrate Private 5G seamlessly into their existing LAN/WAN/Cloud infrastructure, resulting in better business outcomes.

According to the Senior Vice President and General Manager, Provider Mobility, Cisco Networking, Masum Mir, “Together with NTT, we aim to help our enterprise customers accelerate digital transformation, with the power of 5G and Wi-Fi across IT and OT operations. Our cloud-managed private 5G offers customers seamless integration with their Enterprise network fabric along with common policy and zero trust security architecture, helping to reduce technical, financial, and operational risks associated with managing 5G networks, so they can focus on driving business agility and efficiency.”

NTT will provide network infrastructure design, deployment, run operations, use case development, device sourcing, compatibility, and end-to-end testing for Cisco’s Private 5G.

The partnership will enable critical Industry 4.0 capabilities, such as push-to-talk communication, machine vision, and more.

The companies are planning to power computer vision for product quality analysis, predictive analytics for manufacturing equipment functionality and maintenance, and autonomous vehicles for moving products on the factory floor, leveraging NTT’s IoT-connected solutions.

Executive Vice President, New Ventures and Innovation at NTT, Shahid Ahmed said, “NTT and Cisco are building on our mutual commitment to building a simple to manage pure private network solutions. As a premier systems integrator partner to Cisco, the two companies are well-positioned to deliver a secure, reliable, and future-proof private 5G network for our joint enterprise customers with global footprints.”

The partnership between NTT and Cisco represents a natural expansion of the cutting-edge capabilities and services that NTT brings to market to help its global clients modernize their businesses.

By leveraging the strengths of each company, enterprise customers will be able to deploy Private 5G successfully and achieve better business outcomes.

In conclusion, NTT and Cisco are collaborating to bring Private 5G technology and managed services to enterprise customers, enabling them to accelerate digital transformation and achieve better business outcomes.

The partnership will enable critical Industry 4.0 capabilities and provide customers with a secure, reliable, and future-proof private 5G network.

The companies have already begun coordination on several customer deployments, and NTT will provide network infrastructure design, deployment, and end-to-end testing for Cisco’s Private 5G.