NEC CORPORATION
From 100,000 employees to 120 years at the forefront of electronics innovation NEC Corporation is an end-to-end , full spectrum supplier of advanced electronics technology and solutions , headquartered in Japan . With over 100,000 employees located around the world , NEC contributes to a wide array of different industries and sectors .
“ I was in Japan just two weeks ago , and the first thing I saw at the airport was the facial recognition technology at immigration . And that facial recognition is made by NEC . There are cameras and computers , and they ' re all NEC . And that ' s the first thing you see ,” Lopez describes .
“ You see NEC everywhere throughout Japan , from electronics to appliances to services . And NEC is involved in retail , manufacturing , healthcare and telecoms – even within just telecoms , we say that we ' re involved in everything ‘ from the seafloor to outer space ’, because NEC is one of the world ’ s leading manufacturing vendors of both submarine cables and satellites .”
The rising value of Open RAN solutions One of the things that sets NEC apart is the fact that , on top of being a vendor of products and technology in the telecoms space , it is also a systems integrator .
This is key for the company as , when technologies emerge – Open RAN being a key example – the opportunities have to be weighed by network operators against complexity , and the added cost for operators to onboard a new vendor . The ability to take on this additional complexity is a key decision point for wireless telecom operators .
“ So one way to reduce that risk , reduce the cost and be able to hit the ground running is to use a system integrator . That ' s where we shine , because we don ' t just integrate our products , but we have launched NEC Open Networks ,” explains Lopez .
NEC Open Networks – for the specific domain of telecoms that they are interested in – is a suite of solutions that provides operators with access to not only NEC ’ s specialist products , but also to products from
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