Thursday, October 5, 2017

NTT COMMUNICATIONS' SDX TECHNOLOGIES TO BE ADOPTED BY MCLAREN-HONDA FOR 2017 FORMULA 1 JAPANESE GRAND PRIX

High-speed SD-WAN will connect Suzuka Circuit and McLaren-Honda's UK headquarters to efficiently transmit car data for strategic in-race management according to data priority

TOKYO, Oct 5 (Bernama-BUSINESS WIRE) -- McLaren-Honda, a pioneering leader in Formula 1 motor racing for over 50 years, and NTT Communications, the ICT solutions and international communications business within the NTT Group (TOKYO:9432), announced today that NTT Communications' software-defined-everything (SDx) technologies will be incorporated for the first time in a track-side network connecting the Suzuka Circuit in Japan and the McLaren Technology Centre in Woking, UK during the 2017 Formula 1 Japanese Grand Prix.

By adopting NTT Communications' SDx technologies, McLaren-Honda plans to implement a series of tests during the Japanese Grand Prix to strengthen its remote management of race strategy using telemetry data provided at extra high speed. NTT Communications' secure ICT infrastructure is expected to control network bandwidth flexibly and efficiently in testing the speed and quality of the new software-defined wide-area network (SD-WAN)'s greatly increased bandwidth. Data will also be transmitted between Japan and the UK via an existing MPLS circuit.
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