BBIX and KCCS Sign Business Partnership for Cloud-based Network Service OCX

BBIX and KCCS Sign Business Partnership for Cloud-based Network Service OCX

BBIX to add OCX connection point at 100% Renewable Energy Zero Emission Data Center ZED ISHIKARI

BBIX, Inc. (“BBIX”) signed a business partnership agreement with KYOCERA Communication Systems Co., Ltd. (“KCCS”) to provide a cloud-based network service Open Connectivity eXchange (“OCX”). With this partnership agreement, BBIX will add an OCX connection point at KCCS’s Zero Emission Data Center ISHIKARI (“ZED ISHIKARI”) on January 1, 2025.

OCX is a cloud-based network service provided by BBIX and BBSakura Networks, Inc. (“BBSakura”). OCX offers on-demand, highly secure, low-latency, scalable connectivity services for a variety of cloud services and data centers used by customers.

KCCS opened ZED ISHIKARI on October 1, 2024 in Ishikari City, Hokkaido, where renewable energy is abundant. ZED ISHIKARI uses a combination of energy sources from the Ishikari Bay Shinko Offshore Wind Farm and a newly built solar power plant owned by the company near the data center, to operate the data center on “raw green electricity.” By matching these renewable energy sources on an hourly basis, KCCS is the first data center in Japan^*1 to achieve 100% renewable energy (24/7 carbon-free power^*2) and promote local production for the local consumption of electricity. In addition, KCCS continues its efforts to circulate energy within the building by using cool outside air for air conditioning and exhaust heat from the server room for under-floor air conditioning and road heating.

Recently, demand for digital infrastructure such as data centers has been increasing due to the spread of generative AI, and from the perspective of cost and power security, it is important to process information at a data center near the power infrastructure and transmit the results to the demand area of demand via a communication network.

The combination of ZED ISHIKARI, which is operated by KCCS on 100% renewable energy, with the high-quality, secure OCX provided by BBIX and BBSakura will contribute to the realization of a sustainable society by promoting local production for the local consumption of electricity and the decentralization of digital infrastructure to address decarbonization and the achievement of the SDGs, thus, BBIX, BBSakura, and KCCS will contribute to the realization of a sustainable society.

■ About BBIX
Company Name: BBIX, Inc.
URL: https://www.bbix.net/en/
Headquarters: 1-9-10 Roppongi, Minato-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Hideyuki Sasaki, President & CEO
Date of establishment: June 13, 2003
Capital: 100 million yen
Ownership: 100% owned by SoftBank Corp.
Business: Telecommunications operator under Japan’s Telecommunications Business Act; leasing, maintenance & management of telecommunications equipment; development, sales, maintenance & management of computer hardware/software

■ About BBSakura
Company Name: BBSakura Networks, Inc.
URL: https://www.bbsakura.net/en/
Headquarters: 7-20-1 Nishi Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Representative: Hideyuki Sasaki, President & CEO
Date of establishment: August 1, 2019
Capital: 200 million yen
Ownership: BBIX, Inc. 51%, SAKURA internet Inc. 49%
Business: Telecommunications operator under Japan’s Telecommunications Business Act; leasing, maintenance & management of telecommunications equipment; development, sales, maintenance & management of computer hardware/software

■ About KCCS
Company Name: KYOCERA Communication Systems Co., Ltd.
URL：https://www.kccs.co.jp/
Headquarters: 6 Takeda Tobadono-cho, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto
Representative: Yoshihito Kurose, President
Date of establishment: September 22, 1995
Capital: 2,985,946,900 yen
Ownership: KYOCERA Corporation 76.6%, KDDI CORPORATION 23.4%
Business: ICT business, telecommunications engineering business, environmental energy engineering business, management consulting business

■ Contact Point for Media Inquiries
BBIX, Inc.
E-mail: pr@bbix.net

BBSakura Networks, Inc.
Inquiry Form: https://www.bbsakura.net/en/contact/business

KYOCERA Communication Systems Co., Ltd. Public Relations
E-mail：webmaster@kccs.co.jp

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