Noriyuki Araki joined Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Access Network Systems Laboratories in 1995. He is currently serving as chair of ITU-T Focus Group on Disaster Relief, Network Resilience and Recovery (FG-DR&NRR), and vice-chair of ITU-T SG 15.
He has worked on the research and development of operation and maintenance systems for optical fibre cable networks. Since 2006, he has been engaged in standardization work for outside plant in ITU-T SG 6. He was a Rapporteur of Q.17 of ITU-T SG 15 (Maintenance and operation of optical fibre cable networks) from 2008 to 2012. He has also been contributing to the activities of IEC TC86, Fibre Optics, since 2007.
