Green ICT "Green by ICT"

	Reducing the movement of people	Reducing the movement of people, including the daily commute to work and business travel
	Reducing the movement of materials	Reducing the movement of materials (distribution) through digitalization and online transmission.
	Reducing labor	Reducing labor-intensive work through digitalization, automation and higher efficiency
	Reducing the inefficient use of materials	Promoting reduced paper usage and the recycling of resources
	Promoting the Energy Efficiency of ICT Equipment	Achieving energy efficiency by reducing the power consumption of ICT equipment through the virtualization of servers and networks, and by raising the efficiency of power supplies and air conditioning.

Reducing the movement of people

• Web Conferencing (Video Conferencing) Solution*
  [NTT Com Technology Corporation]

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  This Web Conferencing Solution provides optimal systems according to customer needs. The solution reduces the movement of people associated with business travel, as well as cutting down paper usage through the sharing of conference materials.

• Multi-site Video Conferencing Services*
  [NTT Bizlink, Inc.]

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  This service provides the network connectivity needed for simultaneous video conferencing at multiple sites. Customers can easily hold video conferences at any time using stable network links without furnishing their own equipment and communications lines. The service helps to reduce the movement of people associated with business travel, along with lessening paper usage through a function enabling sharing of conference materials.

• Arcstar Web coferencing

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  This is a Web conferencing service using PCs. The service reduces the movement of people associated with business travel, as well as lessening paper usage through the sharing of conference materials. It also improves the productivity of meetings by facilitating revision and confirmation of conference materials.

• Arcstar Audio coferencing

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  This teleconferencing service allows people to use their own telephones to speak with people at multiple sites at the same time, just as if they were gathered together in a conference room. The service meets a range of customer needs, including the holding of regular meetings from remote locations; the reducing of business travel expenses, travel time and CO₂ emissions; and the holding of seminars over the telephone.

• Arcstar Video coferencing

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  Realizing device-free video conferencing through the use of PCs, smart phones, and tablet terminals - with an Internet environment, this SaaS-type service enables high quality, limited delay video conferencing even with such mobile networks as Wi-Fi.

• Video Camera Monitoring Solution*
  [NTT Com Solution & Engineering Corporation]

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  This system is designed to allow the confirmation and recording of video camera footage from remote locations by transferring the footage taken via IP networks. Compared with traditional monitoring and patrolling methods, this system helps to reduce the movement of people and related labor.

• Biz Communicator (Remote Access Service)*

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  This service increases business efficiency by allowing users to freely operate PCs at company offices from remote external locations using dedicated USB keys. By enabling telecommuting to be used, the service reduces the movement of people commuting to work. It also boosts productivity through teleconferencing and Web conferencing, and reduces business travel by enabling the use of PCs in company offices.

• Arcstar Universal One Mobile*

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  This mobile data communication service offers high-speed data communication with access to a closed user group for business purposes. The service boosts business efficiency by enabling internal office work to be performed outside the office.

• Biz Mobile Connect*

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  This service provides a remote access for connecting to internal corporate systems from outside the office as a SaaS. It reduces the movement of people commuting to work by facilitating telecommuting. In addition, it increases business efficiency by giving personnel access to internal systems in their spare time when they are outside the office.

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Reducing the Movement of Materials

• Internet Storage Service- iTrustee* [NTT Bizlink, Inc.]

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  This service provides dedicated disk space for customers on an Internet storage server. iTrustee enables users to easily and securely upload and download files, as well as to share files from multiple locations. It reduces the movement and inefficient use of materials.

• Mypocket*

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  Mypocket is an online storage service for individual customers. This online storage service helps to reduce the movement of people and materials, compared with the traditional methods of sending recording media containing photo files and large-capacity data files by post.

Reducing Labor

• Biz Desktop Pro*

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  Biz Desktop Pro provides secure access to a cloud-based virtual desktop from within and outside the office. This service reduces operation and management work by enabling users to easily perform central management of desktop environments. At the same time, the service substantially reduces the time and cost of commuting to work by enabling personnel to work from home.

Reducing the Inefficient Use of Materials

• BizFAX Smart Cast*

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  iFAX is a worldwide Internet fax service that allows communication between e-mail and fax. The service promotes paperless operations by replacing paper-based fax messages with email.

• BizFAX Strage & Remote*

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  This service allows users to exchange fax messages over networks to fax transmissions. The service promotes paperless operations by eliminating the need to print faxes by enabling the viewing of fax messages on PCs or mobile phones. At the same time, the service streamlines fax-related tasks and labor.

• OCN MyPage*

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  OCN MyPage is a personal website account for NTT Communications' individual customers. Customers can access electronic bills through their website accounts. OCN MyPage has sharply reduced the requirements of traditional paper-based billing, including logistics (movement of materials), mailing operations (labor) and paper usage.

• Multi-functional IC Card Solution*

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  This solution is designed to identify individuals using printers via IC cards. This helps to prevent information leaks that could result from forgetting to remove print-outs from printers, leaving print-outs in the printer and collecting the wrong print-outs. At the same time, the solution reduces paper and printing costs by cancelling print jobs when there are misprints or long delays before printing.

• Biz Hosting Enterprise Cloud*

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  Biz Hosting Enterprise Cloud is a virtual hosting service that can be flexibly customized according to user requirements. It takes full advantage of cutting-edge virtualization technology that harnesses network virtualization as well as server virtualization to rigorously eliminate inefficiency.

• Billing Station*

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  The Billing Station service allows corporate customers using telephone and other NTT Communications services to download fee statements and call details record data from a dedicated Web server. Compared with traditional methods of mailing statement data to customers using paper or magnetic storage media, conducting electronic billing through this service has greatly reduced logistics (the movement of materials), mailing work (labor), and paper usage.

• Automated Statement Distribution Service*
  [NTTCom Online Marketing Solutions Corporation]

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  This service converts business slips and ledgers into a digital format. Ledgers and slips that were previously printed on paper and sent by post can now be converted into a digital form and distributed online. This reduces the requirements of paper-based ledgers and slips, namely logistics (movement of materials), mailing work (labor) and paper usage.

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Raising the Energy Efficiency of ICT Equipment

• Account Aggregation Service - Agurippa* [NTT Bizlink, Inc.]

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  When using multiple online services offered by banks, securities firms, credit card companies and other providers, the users must create and manage their own IDs and passwords for each site. These user IDs and passwords must be entered every time the site is accessed. The Account Aggregation Service - Agurippa removes this complexity.

• Data Center Services

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  At major cities across Japan and various overseas locations, NTT Communications provides data centers integrated with its communications networks. These data centers are vital platforms underpinning cloud-based services. NTT Communications has achieved Japan's highest level of power consumption efficiency at its latest data center. The data center features a world-class air conditioning system and optimal air flow management in the server rooms, among other advances.

• Biz Storage*

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  Biz Storage is an online storage service for corporate customers. In addition to its use as an intranet-based in-house server, this service has a wide variety of applications including the transmission and sharing of Internet-based files. Through these shared services, NTT Communications aims to ensure the efficient use of resources including equipment housing and electricity.

• Biz Hosting Basic*

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  Biz Hosting Basic is a "ready-made" virtual hosting service for corporate customers. We aim to increase energy efficiency through efficient server operation that makes full use of virtualization technology.

• BizLink Mail & Web Services*
  [NTT Bizlink, Inc.]

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  This service provides some support to corporate customers in a variety of contexts, including business applications such as email and website hosting with an original domain. We strive to raise the efficiency of ICT equipment through a diverse array of service plans (shared server or dedicated server) and extensive service options that can be selected according to each customer's applications and needs.

  * Service available only in Japan.