Global research collaboration over GEMnet

GEMnet has been developed as a medium for carrying out global research coll aboration. To construct a network that can respond to a wide variety of nee ds and to support tie-ups with partners that are robust technologically, NT T's research labs need to collaborate with U.S. partners engaged in the hig hest level of next-generation Internet research. Research work is now movin g forward in collaboration between NTT and robust partners, partners that i dentified by linking GEMnet with the STAR-TAP(*1), which is the internation al interconnection point of the network for next-generation Internet resear ch experiments.