Yukio Ito

Yukio Ito joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Public Corporation after graduating graduate school, having previously worked for the Switching　System of PSTN and the Business Communication Network. After the reorganization of NTT in 1999, he designed the architecture of the Transport Network of NTT Communications and　introduced new technology in the Transport Network of NTT Communications. After June 2010, he had been in charge of　engineering, construction and operation of the IP & L1, L2 backbone network in NTT Communications. He was in charge of the entire NTT Communications service infrastructure and was introducing SDN-OpenFlow technologies into NTT communications' Business Network. Since August 2014, he is responsible for Technology Development to strengthen cross-service technological development capability in accordance with NTT Communications’-wide business strategies. Since December 2011, he has been a member of the Board of Open Networking Foundation.