OREANDA-NEWS. July 26, 2011. NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com) announced today the worldwide launch of its Ethernet Virtual Private Line (EVPL) service, called Global Virtual Link. First introduced in the US through NTT America in 2006, the service is now available in France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, Poland, Singapore, Spain, the Netherlands and the U.K., through NTT Com's Tier-1 Global IP Network, one of the world's largest IP backbones.

Global Virtual Link integrates Wide Area Network (WAN) reach into existing Ethernet-based Local Area Networks (LAN), to provide customers worldwide with virtual point-to-point connections over NTT Com's low-cost open network. Customers such as content providers and Internet service providers are able to establish seamless, direct connections among their Point of Presence (POP) locations and data centers all over the world, enabling them to steadily exchange huge amounts of data. The service allows dedicated bandwidths from 100 Mbps to 10 Gbps, leveraging the reach and reliability of the NTT Com Global Tier-1 IP Network and is suitable for data mirroring, large file transmissions and data backup in cloud computing environments.

Customers can choose from fixed or burstable, pay-as-you-go billings to meet their needs.