NTT and Fujitsu hook up to look beyond 5G Japanese electronics giants NTT and Fujitsu have struck an alliance to develop technology and standards promoting multivendor interoperability in the mobile and optical transport fields. The partners have stated they will conduct joint research and development activities toward a variety of “energy efficient, sustainable technologies” in areas including open architecture optical transport and mobile communications, combined with disaggregated high performance computing. This will become possible through photonics/electronics convergence in devices, according to the companies. “In order to promote more open mobile networks in anticipation of the Beyond 5G era, the two companies will study the development and promotion of open interface-based technologies, as well as the development of global businesses based…