NTT Develops Security Technology for Home Gateway That Enables Remote

JCNN News Summaries - Japan Corporate News Network, Sep 29, 2004 by Dale Hug

NTT (TSE: 9432) has developed home gateway security technology that enables users to connect to network appliances at home from outside and to control them remotely in a secure and convenient manner.

NTT's newly developed technology provides a secure and convenient means of remote usage of network appliances at home. This is achieved by a secure access control function to home gateways that are deployed at the entrance of home networks. The secure access control function dynamically controls remote access from outside the home. The above feature does not require any installation of additional software into equipment either at home or outside.

Users can access various equipment at home from the Internet environment outside in a way that "anyone can access at anytime and immediately as requested". Equipment at home could be a personal computer, or appliances such as TV, HDD (Hard Disk Drive) Recorder, or Web Camera.

By the use of this technology, users can, for example, remotely watch motion pictures stored in a digital camera or a video recorder, as if they were at home. Once users share access permission among friends or family members, they can immediately access large-sized content data at home that cannot be shared using communication measures such as E-mail.

The above technology is expected to be a driving force for the creation of new businesses such as content sharing and remote control by service providers, as well as a platform for ubiquitous services that fully utilize the potential capability of optical broadband networks.