History

Source: NTT Advanced Technology Corporation

  • R&D support for NTT Laboratories
  Description of Business Technology Development
1976

  • The company was founded as Nippon Telecommunication Engineering Corporation with the Capital of 50 million yen

  
1978  

  • Launched technology transfer business
1980

  • Established Society for Technology Transfer

  • Infused with capital from Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation (presently, NTT: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation)
  
1981

  • Opened new office in Yokosuka, Kanagawa

  • Launched sound analysis service
1983  

  • Launched technology transfer abroad
1984  

  • Optical fiber fabrication using VAD
1985

  • Privatization of NTT

  • Changed corporate name of NTT Technology Transfer Corporation

  • Increased capital to 170 million yen

  • CDV (chemical vapor deposition) thin-film formation technology using ECR plasma

  • Fabrications process for CMOS LSIs

  • Fabrication of ultra-high-speed bipolar LSIs (SST process)
1986  

  • Launched marterial analysis service

  • Integrated circuit simulator
1987  

  • SC optical fiber connector technology

  • Multilayer board fabrication with copper/polyimide interconnection

  • Design technology for 16QAW digital microwave equipment
1988  

  • ISDN network simulator

  • Launched EMC measurement service

  • MMIC circuit design technology
1989

  • Hiroaki Fuketa was appointed as President

  • MT optical fiber connector technology

  • MASH analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters

  • Ordering system using F-Net (facsimile communication service)
1990

  • Changed corporate name of NTT Advanced Technology Corporation

  • Increased capital to 470 million yen
  • Launched intellectual propaerty bussiness
  
1991

  • Disital service units (DSU) design technology for INS network service

  • New synchronous terminal design technology

  
1992  

  • MPO optical fiber connector technology

  • Voice response system for telephone
  • X-ray mask for next generation LSI
1993

  • Launched worker dispatching business and network integration business

  • Hi-PAS packaging technology

  • Disital wireless circuit design technology

  • MU optical fiber connector technology

  • SIMOX basic technology

  • Fabrications process for 0.8µm Bipolar-CMOS LSI
1994

  • Opened new office in Higashi-totsuka, Kanagawa

  • Launched new businesses related in education research, wireless technology and human interface
  • Exceeded 10 billion yen in sales

  • Equipment technology for digital motion picture files

  • Speech database (CD-ROM) containing voice samples in 21 languages
  • Objective measurement equipment for digital telephony speech quality
  • CAD tool for ASIC reliablity analysis
  • Optical connector polisher for full range connectors
1995

  • Changed abbreviation of corporate name into NTT-AT

  • Established headquaters system in Head Office
  • Expanded business fields into node systems, CAD software, visual communication systems

  • Passive Double Ster method technology

  • LSI design technology for personal handyphone systems

  • SIMOX board fabrication and quality evaluation technology

  • Low-voltage LSI technology

  • Intelligent hub technology

  • Automated optical fiber interferometer system
1996

  • Tetsuhiko Ikegami was appointed as President

  • Exceeded 20 billion yen in sales
  • Reinforced fiber optics, radio wave technology and material analysis business

  • High-speed full-text search system

  • ISDN communication board
  • Super helpdesk service
  • Super water-repellent material
1997

  • Number of employees surpassed 1,000

  • Established 6 Business Headquarters system
  • Newly established International Business Promotion Headquarters
  • Commended from NTT as Prime Business Award

  • Superlattice APD technology

  • Copper CVD technology

  • Automatic processing and interferometer system for optical connector ferrule
1998

  • Kimio Tazaki was appointed as President

  • Opened West Headquarters in Osaka, and Okinawa Office
  • Certified with ISO9001 for network and multimedia related systems

  • www server software for financial systems

  • Return loss measuring interferometer
  • Temperature distribution measuring equipment for printed board

  • Subscribers' wireless network design technology

  • Technology for manufacturing plyimide optical waveguides
1999

  • Expanded fields certified with ISO9001 to communications systems and equipment, optical fiber connector related equipment and communications software

  • Certified with ISO14001 aiming to develop environmental management technologies
  • Moved Head Office to Shinjuku, Tokyo

  • Launched total network security service

  • Simple CTI system with voice recognition
  • Connoisseur service for technology and producs
  • Automated E-mail classification and sending systems
2000

  • Newly opened branch office in Hokkaido, Tohoku, Tokai and Kyushu to strengthen business base

  • Opened customer contact center
  • Established NTT-AT Systems Corporation and NTT-AT Techno Communications Corporation
  • Exceeded 40 billion yen in sales

  • 2mm grid cable connector

  • Electromagnetic environment design systems
  • Optical fiber connector intermateability test program
  • Disclosure support system for proceedings and images of local assembly
2001

  • Opened branch office in U.S.A. to develop international business

  • Achieved 50 billion yen in sales
  • Acquired the first certification of OHSAS18001 in NTT group
  • Certified with ISO9001:2000 for network, information, communication and visual systems
  • Established NTT-AT Intellectual Property Sharing Corporation

  • Automated inspection tool for Java source code

  • Simulation software for radio wave propagation
  • Sound support system for elderly and hearing impaired
2002

  • Increased to 5 billion yen to become 100% subsidiary of NTT

  • Expanded fields certified with ISO9001:2000 to environmental sensors and services
  • Certified with ISO14001 for entire NTT-AT
  • Established NTT-AT Creative Corporation

  • Polisher for mass-production of optical fiber connectors

  • Biotelemetry system
  • Corrosion resistant powder corating for steel facilities
  • Optical fiber visual fault checker
  • Dragmotion movie creation software
  • High-quality voicesynthesizing system
  • Japan and US business method patents infomation search service
  • Wireless motion monitoring system
  • Traffic measurement system for TCP/IP communication
  • Optical fiber sensor for disaster prevention management
  • Echo cancellation software with noise reduction
  • Access control system using fingerprint authentication
2003

  • Certified with ISMS and BS7799-2 for Security Service Center

  • ISO14001 for the entire NTT-AT group companies
  • Established NTT-AT Nanofabrication Corporation

  • Total support service for public wireless LAN interconnection

  • Remote sensing and control system
  • Objective measurement system for VoIP telephony speech quality
  • Total EMC solutions for medical facilities
  • Internal information leakage prevention system
  • Laser manufacturing service for 2D-code plastic tag
  • Automatically giving kana program alog with the Chinese characters
2004

  • Hiroshi Ishikawa was appointed as President

  • Singing voice synthesis technology

  • Pocket size solar battery for portable devices
  • Fine-hole fluorine resin sheet
  • IP multicast viewing management system
  • Visualizing system for IP network routing/signaling control information
  • Lightning surge wave recorder
  • Audio and visual recoderon PC
2005

  • Global solutions business transferred from NTT-ME Corporation

  • Established Communication Systems Business Headquarters to spread channel of international products

  • Synthesis system of high-reality 3D image

  • Emergency reporting and gathering system