Mumbai: NTT Communications Corporation (NTT Com), a NTT Group company today announced the launch of international data network services in India through its affiliate NTT Communications India Network Services ( NTTCINS ).The acquisition of this licence in India follows start of construction of company’s two data centers in Mumbai and Bangalore via NTT Com’s subsidiary firm Netmagic Since NTT Com bought acquired Virtual Network Operator - International Long Distance (VNO-ILD) network licence in March this year, it has been providing its international network services under brand Arcstar Universal One services by partnering with local carriers. It offers own value-added services such as Network Virtualization Functions (NVF), utilizing the partner carriers’ infrastructure in India.With this, company claims to be the first Japanese firm to hold the VNO-ILD network licence in India.Further it has decided to invest over $160 million setting up two data centers, which will become operational by April 2018. These data centers will add nearly 500,000 square feet of gross floor space at full build. This brings NTT Com’s total gross footprint to 1,100,000 square feet in India.“India has been a key strategic market for us with the accelerating shift of IT services from traditional enterprise data centres into the cloud-based services,” said NTT Com President and CEO Tetsuya Shoji.“For the past few years, our business in India has consistently grown over 35 percent annually. With further expansion of data center foot print and addition of international data network services to our service portfolio, we aim to meet the growing market needs for Mobility, e-Commerce, Internet of Things ( IoT ), Cloud and Big Data,” added Shoji.“There is a continuous demand for a resilient and scalable IT Infrastructure backbone in this digital era. And, our company has a rich history of evolving itself ahead of the curve to meet the dynamic requirements of our clients' businesses,” said Sharad Sanghi MD & CEO of Netmagic (an NTT Communications company).“Our strategy is to accommodate this demand and ensure that our network service offering and data centres enable our ICT clients with rich IT infrastructure for maximum connectivity and enhanced productivity. With this two new data centers, Netmagic becomes one of the largest data center service providers in India,” added Sanghi.The two upcoming data centers in Mumbai and Bangalore will have NTT Com’s exact global design standards and will be accommodate 2,750 racks / 22MW power and 1,500 racks / 15 MW power respectively. With NTT Com's high-speed, high-volume internet backbone and network services, customers can accelerate their business development to meet the increasing demand of cloud services.