IDC Frontier and BBIX Launch OCX Compute Fabric (OCF)

IDC Frontier and BBIX Launch OCX Compute Fabric (OCF)

Service Utilizes OCX to Distribute Cloud Infrastructure Across Regional Data Centers

IDC Frontier Inc. (“IDC Frontier”), a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. engaged in cloud services, and BBIX Inc. (“BBIX”), also a subsidiary of SoftBank Corp. engaged in Internet Exchange (IX) services, have launched “OCX Compute Fabric” (‘OCF’), a service that utilizes BBIX’s cloud-based network service “Open Connectivity eXchange” (“OCX”) to distribute cloud infrastructure across regional data centers.

Background and Purpose

While migration to mega-clouds has become commonplace for enterprise cloud adoption, new challenges are emerging. For regional companies in particular, the concentration of major mega-cloud regions in metropolitan areas often leads to communication delays due to physical distance, making migration to mega-clouds unsuitable. Additionally, data sovereignty considerations can also present barriers to migration.

Conversely, for regional data center operators, local carriers and system integrators (SIers), maintaining their own infrastructure to serve as a migration destination imposes significant cost and operational burdens.

Against this backdrop, IDC Frontier and BBIX are launching “OCX Compute Fabric (OCF).” This service adopts a business model enabling regional data center operators, local carriers and SIers to deploy cloud services without owning assets. It provides a practical and optimal solution addressing regional needs for “low latency and data sovereignty” that mega-clouds cannot fully meet.

Key Features of OCX Compute Fabric

1. IDC Frontier’s Cloud Platform Based on VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF)

Leveraging its extensive experience developing and operating VMware-based cloud services, IDC Frontier utilizes VMware Cloud Foundation（VCF) as its foundation. This enables integrated management of compute, storage, networking and security, delivering a cloud platform that balances stability and scalability.

2. Nationwide Distribution via BBIX’s “OCX”

BBIX’s “OCX” enables the distributed deployment of cloud services across regional data centers

3. Service deployment by regional data center operators

Regional operators can resell “OCF” as their own product to end users. They can also mutually utilize “OCF” resources registered by other operators. All operations, from resource procurement to customer contract management, can be completed within the “OCF” management interface, enabling smooth business expansion.

Service Overview

OCF Management Interface

*Japanese only

List of Companies with OCF Implementation/Planned Implementation (as of February 2026)

ACT-SYSTEMS Co., Ltd.
Hokuden Information System Service Company,Inc.
Hokuriku Telecommunication Network Co.,Inc.
Ishikawa Computer Center Co., Ltd.
OEC Co., Ltd.
Osaki Computer Engineering Co., Ltd.
QTnet,Inc.
Railway Information Systems Co., Ltd. (JR Systems)
TOHKnet Co.,Inc.
*Listed in alphabetical order after confirming publication permission with each partner

Going forward, IDC Frontier and BBIX will continue contributing to Japan’s DX advancement and regional economic revitalization through “OCX Compute Fabric.”

*The information in this release is current as of the announcement date. It may be subject to change without prior notice.

About IDC Frontier
Company Name: IDC Frontier Inc.
URL：https://www.idcf.jp/en/company/
Headquarters: Hibiya Park Front, 2-1-6 Uchisaiwaicho Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 100-0011 Japan
Representative: Katsuhisa Suzuki, President & CEO
Date of establishment: April, 2009
Capital: 100 million yen
Ownership: 100% owned by SoftBank Corp.
Business: Data Center, Cloud
We operate large-scale Data Centers in the Tokyo metropolitan area, eastern Japan, and western Japan, providing high-quality Data Center solutions, including network security and operational monitoring, as well as cloud computing and storage services. We provide high-quality and stable Digital Infrastructures throughout Japan as an infrastructure environment that can easily optimize the balance between the East and the West depending on customers’ purposes.
Data Center: Tokyo metropolitan area (Tokyo Fuchu, Tokyo Ariake, Tokyo Nihombashi, Kanagawa Yokohama) , Tohoku(Fukushima Shirakawa), Kansai(Osaka Suita, Nara Ikoma), Kyushu(Fukuoka Kitakyushu), Hokkaido (Tomakomai)

About BBIX
Company Name: BBIX, Inc.
URL: https://www.bbix.net/en/
Headquarters: 1-7-1 Kaigan, 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

Media Contacts
IDC Frontier Inc.
Email:pr@idcf.jp

BBIX, Inc.
E-mail: pr@bbix.net

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