When Telecom provider NTT West needed a way to provide its business clients with cost-effective access to compute power, the company turned to Univa UD for help. Univa UD and Sumisho Computer Systems assisted NTT West in developing the ???????Hikarigrid???????? or fibre-grid service offering. The Hikarigrid offering harnesses the vastly underutilized compute capacity of NTT????????s overall broadband user community and offers this capacity as a service to NTT business clients. Hikari-grid is managed by Univa UD????????s Service One software solution which provides the engine and management software needed to link NTT West????????s two customer groups. Broadband telecommunications security computer grid technology clustering