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~Redundant fiber optic ring service connecting major data centers in Osaka City~

 

December 22, 2022

BB Backbone Corp.

JR WEST OPTICAL NETWORK Corp.

 

BB Backbone Corp. (“BB Backbone”), and JR WEST OPTICAL NETWORK Corp. (“JRWON”), a provider of optical fiber services in western Japan, today announced to provide "Osaka NANIWA Ring", redundant fiber optic ring connection between major data centers in Osaka City, from January 2023. Order application for this service started from 6^th December 2022.

 

■“Osaka NANIWA Ring” Expansion Image

 

"Osaka NANIWA Ring", utilizes JRWON’s railroad fiber-optic route and BB Backbone’s depth technical experience of fiber-optic network development. This ring will connect the 3 major data center areas in Osaka City such as Osaka Business Park (location: Kyobashi), Dojima and Sonezaki areas.

“Osaka NANIWA Ring" is a unique and unprecedented service using railroad routes, which can be used as a solution to meet customers' needs to reduce overlaps with existing network routes, enabling the construction of stable, reliable, and fault tolerant network. In addition, within the 3 data center areas, this ring was designed to meet the 100GBASE-LR4 standard for data center connections, which may realize the reduction of equipment cost and equipment fault risk.

Furthermore, "Osaka NANIWA Ring" can connect to the existing optical fiber networks owned by BB Backbone, JRWON, and other fiber-optic partners. It can connect to major data centers in the Osaka areas and other data centers in the Kansai region, Chugoku region, and Kyushu region. Due to the fiber design and fiber fusion methods, many data centers can be connected without the usage of relay stations which can reduce the operation and maintenance cost.

 

BB Backbone and JRWON will continue to work together to meet the diverse connectivity needs of enterprise and the data center operator needs in Osaka City to provide stable, reliable, and high-quality optical fiber services.

 

■"Osaka NANIWA Ring" logo

 

This logo uses the corporate colors of BB Backbone and JRWON. Curved logo represents the high-quality optical fiber ring. Japanese style font was used to symbolize the Osaka area as well as aimed to create a service that will be familiar to both Japan domestic and international customers outside of Japan.

 

 

■"Osaka NANIWA Ring" application

 

BB Backbone Corp.
Email: SBMGRP-BBBSales@g.softbank.co.jp

JRWEST OPTICAL NETWORK Corp.
Email: info@jrw-hikari.net

 

 

 

■About BB Backbone
Company name: BB Backbone Corp.
Headquarters location: 1-7-1 Kaigan, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Hidetoshi Tosaka, President and CEO
Capital: 1.26 billion yen (100% owned by SoftBank Corp.)
URL: https://www.bbbackbone.co.jp/

 

<Business Overview>
Since 2017, BB Backbone has been investing aggressively in the Osaka area, considering it an important hub on the same level as Tokyo. Currently, BB Backbone provides fiber optic services between Dojima and Shinsaibashi and from Osaka City to Minoh.

 

■About JRWON
Company name: JR WEST OPTICAL NETWORK Corp.
Headquarters location: 1-7-1 Minami Suita, Suita City, Osaka, Japan
Representative: Takashi Yamauchi, President and CEO
Capital:50 million yen (100% owned by West Japan Railway Company)
URL: https://jrw-hikari.net/

 

<Business Overview>
Since its establishment in July 2021, JRWON has been supporting customers’ network construction with high quality, reliable, and convenient optical fiber installed along JR West’s Sanyo Shinkansen Line and conventional lines in western Japan area.

 

 

 

■Media Relations

 

BB Backbone Corp.
TEL： 03-6889-1255
Email: SBMGRP-BBBSales@g.softbank.co.jp

JR WEST OPTICAL NETWORK Corp.
TEL： 06-4860-9813
Email: info@jrw-hikari.net