First Exhibit at CES 2020, the world's largest Consumer Electronics Show - Exhibiting basic technologies and use cases to realize the IOWN concept on the theme of "Beyond the Internet" -

NTT Corporation (NTT) announces that it will exhibit for the first time at the CES 2020, the world's largest consumer electronics show, to be held in Las Vegas, USA, for 4 days from January 7th to 10th, 2020.
At the exhibition booth, NTT will feature some use cases of the IOWN^*1 concept that NTT announced in May 2019, and the basic technologies that support the concept.

*Booth design illustration. Design is subject to change.

Main Exhibits

1. Overview of the IOWN concept through videos and presentation:

Introduction of three technical elements, All Photonics Network, Digital Twin Computing, and Cognitive Foundation that the IOWN concept comprises, and the worldviews that they create.

2. The world brought by the IOWN through the use case videos:

Use Case (1)	Smart City / Smart Mobility
Use Case (2)	Smart Healthcare
Use Case (3)	Smart Life

3. "IOWN R&D Lab":

Introduction of basic technologies which sustain the IOWN concept through demonstrations and videos.

"photonics-electronics convergence chip", an information processing chip to achieve low power consumption and high-speed transactions.
"LASOLV", a new type of computer that enable to solve intractable problems with photonic technologies.
"Artificial photosynthesis", an artificial energy generator with photonics artificially.
"Submerged ultrasonic MIMO (multiple-input and multiple-output) technology", an undersea communication technology.
"Technical approach (High-precision positioning technologies, etc.)", an element technology of mobility in the IOWN Era.

4. Others:

Introduction of "IOWN Global Forum" ^*2 which was announced by NTT, Intel and Sony on October 30th, 2019.
Activities of NTT Research, Inc., which was established in Silicon Valley in July 2019 as NTT's North American research base.
An actual vehicle exhibition and VR demonstration of the "Indy Car Series" sponsored by NTT Group since 2019.

For further details, please visit NTT CES 2020 Special Website at https://www.ntt.co.jp/activity/en/ces/

^*1IOWN stands for Innovative Optical and Wireless Network. IOWN is future communications infrastructure to realize a smart world by using cutting-edge technologies like photonics and computing technologies.

^*2http://www.iowngf.org/ Launch in New Window

References

Overview of the CES 2020

Dates	Tuesday, January 7th, 2020 - Friday, January 10th, 2020
Venue	Tech East Las Vegas Convention and World Trade Center (LVCC) Westgate Las Vegas / Renaissance Las Vegas ※NTT will exhibit at the Tech East LVCC. Tech West* Sands Expo / The Venetian / The Palazzo / Wynn Las Vegas / Encore at Wynn (Encore) Tech South ARIA / Park MGM / Park Theater / Vdara
Main Sponsor	Consumer Technology Association（CTA）™
Number of Exhibitors	4,500+
Number of Visitors	Approx. 170,000
Official website	https://www.ces.tech/