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Biometric-centric digital identity finds a home at The Prism Project

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Feb. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The brainchild of a research collaboration between biometric industry thought leaders Acuity Market Intelligence (www.acuitymi.com) and FindBiometrics (www.findbiometrics.com), The Prism Project (www.the-prism-project.com) builds on the success of the Biometric Digital Identity Prism, a unique biometric-centric framework for understanding the rapidly emerging global digital identity marketplace.

Key Points: 
  • The Prism framework, introduced in early 2023, grew out of a joint research project launched to understand and evaluate the road ahead for digital identity.
  • The framework became the basis of the Biometric Digital Identity Prism model introduced in July 2023 and the subsequent Biometric Digital Identity Prism Report published in September 2023.
  • This includes publishing a 2024 update to the flagship Biometric Digital Identity Prism Report as well as introducing three vertically-focused Prism Reports analyzing the role of biometric digital identity in financial services, government, and travel and hospitality.
  • The flagship Biometric Digital Identity Prism Report includes:
    The Biometric Digital Identity Prism model.

MWC Barcelona: VIAVI to Demonstrate AI, Cloud & Open Network Optimization With More Than 20 Industry Partners

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

NEC will demonstrate vRAN with Arm, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Red Hat, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks, Inc., featuring the VIAVI TM500 Network Tester .

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  • NEC will demonstrate vRAN with Arm, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Red Hat, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Juniper Networks, Inc., featuring the VIAVI TM500 Network Tester .
  • The two companies will demonstrate an end-to-end Non-Terrestrial Network (NTN-NR) testbed including the VIAVI TM500 Network Tester.
  • Demonstration of DELL's methodology and benchmarking at Open Telecom Ecosystem Labs (OTEL) and the VIAVI NITRO Wireless O-RAN Test Suite.
  • To learn more about VIAVI at MWC 2024 or to book a meeting in advance, click here .

NEC named to list of Top 100 Global Innovators by Clarivate for 13th consecutive year

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Thursday, March 7, 2024

TOKYO, Mar 7, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has been named to the list of Top 100 Global Innovators 2024 by Clarivate Plc., which selects companies and organizations that "sit at the very top of the global innovation ecosystem, with the most consistent above-the-bar innovation performance."

Key Points: 
  • TOKYO, Mar 7, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has been named to the list of Top 100 Global Innovators 2024 by Clarivate Plc., which selects companies and organizations that "sit at the very top of the global innovation ecosystem, with the most consistent above-the-bar innovation performance."
  • This is the 13th* consecutive year that NEC has been selected for the award.
  • *Only 18 organizations in the world have been selected for this award for 13 consecutive years.ShareNEC's intellectual property activities.
  • Top 100 Global Innovators 2024: https://clarivate.com/top-100-innovators/

Transgene, NEC, and BostonGene Expand Collaboration for Phase I/II Clinical Trial of Neoantigen Cancer Vaccine TG4050

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

BostonGene is partnering with NEC and Transgene to continue performing tumor molecular profiling and microenvironment analysis and provide high-throughput sequencing services.

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  • BostonGene is partnering with NEC and Transgene to continue performing tumor molecular profiling and microenvironment analysis and provide high-throughput sequencing services.
  • The partnership with BostonGene will enable fast turnaround of next-generation sequencing (NGS) data, and sophisticated analytics will enable comprehensive profiling of patient immune contexture.
  • "Our collaboration with BostonGene has provided in-depth information on patient phenotypes in the Phase I trial.
  • "We are committed to supporting Transgene and NEC as they advance these clinical trials," said Nathan Fowler, MD, Chief Medical Officer at BostonGene.

Cisco, NEC and TIM Brazil improve TIM Brazil network quality with automation and advanced data analytics to enhance business customers experience

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Friday, March 1, 2024

The collaboration aims to improve TIM Brazil network performance, service quality and end-to-end visibility, providing an enhanced experience for customers business of all sizes.

Key Points: 
  • The collaboration aims to improve TIM Brazil network performance, service quality and end-to-end visibility, providing an enhanced experience for customers business of all sizes.
  • TIM Brazil, leading 5G mobile operator and leader in network coverage in Brazil, has identified key areas for improvement, including end-to-end visibility, automation, and network quality.
  • The company aims to continue its journey of quality improvement, offering a premium network quality and availability to its customers.
  • Our Center of Excellence (CoE) places a strong emphasis on network automation to enhance our customer's operations and network quality.

NEC Selected by NTT DOCOMO as a Virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) Vendor

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Monday, February 26, 2024

TOKYO, Feb 26, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced its selection by NTT DOCOMO, Inc. (DOCOMO) as a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) vendor for DOCOMO's nationwide 5G commercial network services.

Key Points: 
  • TOKYO, Feb 26, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) today announced its selection by NTT DOCOMO, Inc. (DOCOMO) as a virtualized radio access network (vRAN) vendor for DOCOMO's nationwide 5G commercial network services.
  • Going forward, NEC plans to provide DOCOMO with vRAN for use in creating flexible and highly scalable 5G networks to be operated on the company's commercial networks.
  • NEC already provides virtualization technologies for vEPC (*3) for DOCOMO's 4G commercial services and 5G mobile core network (5GC).
  • Michio Kiuchi, Corporate Executive Vice President of NEC said, "We are honored to be selected by DOCOMO as a commercial 5G vRAN vendor.

Clear Mobitel Successfully Deploys NEC 5G SA Cloud Native Core Network to Accelerate the Adoption of Innovative 5G Solutions in the UK and the Channel Islands

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

TOKYO, Feb 22, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - Clear Mobitel Ltd., and NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) have announced the successful deployment of NEC's state-of-the-art 5G Standalone (SA) Cloud Native Core Network solution in the UK to accelerate the delivery and adoption of advanced 5G services.

Key Points: 
  • TOKYO, Feb 22, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - Clear Mobitel Ltd., and NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) have announced the successful deployment of NEC's state-of-the-art 5G Standalone (SA) Cloud Native Core Network solution in the UK to accelerate the delivery and adoption of advanced 5G services.
  • This initiative with NEC is set to accelerate the delivery and adoption of advanced 5G services.
  • Clear Mobitel will utilise this cutting-edge 5G core technology to support its software-centric ecosystem approach to remain agile and responsive to meet customer needs.
  • "We are thrilled to partner with NEC to leverage their innovative 5G Core solution in the UK.

NEC UPF Achieves Industry-Leading High Performance in 5G Core Networks, reaching 1.3Tbps Throughput

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

TOKYO, Feb 22, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has confirmed that its User Plane Function (UPF) for processing user data traffic in 5G core networks (5GC) has achieved an industry-leading throughput of 1.3Tbps per server on Intel servers with 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.

Key Points: 
  • TOKYO, Feb 22, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) has confirmed that its User Plane Function (UPF) for processing user data traffic in 5G core networks (5GC) has achieved an industry-leading throughput of 1.3Tbps per server on Intel servers with 4th generation Intel Xeon Scalable processors.
  • In recent years, NEC has been working to improve UPF performance and its processing efficiency by applying advanced approaches such as optimizing CPU processing, accelerating memory access, and reducing memory access delays(1).
  • NEC has also been continuously evaluating the latest hardware to improve performance and has now successfully confirmed the groundbreaking high throughput of 1.3Tbps in testing of a UPF on servers using 4th generation Intel Xeon scalable processors.
  • This achievement helps to significantly improve the performance of mobile network traffic processing, as well as contributing to lower power consumption and costs.

DOCOMO and NTT Expand 6G Collaborations with SK Telecom and Rohde & Schwarz

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Thursday, February 22, 2024

TOKYO, Feb 22, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) announced today that they have added two new global partners to their collaborative 6G trials with the world's leading vendors and global operators: telecom operator SK Telecom Co., Ltd (SK Telecom) and Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (Rohde & Schwarz), a manufacturer of high-frequency high-performance measurement instruments.

Key Points: 
  • TOKYO, Feb 22, 2024 - (JCN Newswire) - NTT DOCOMO, INC. (DOCOMO) and Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT) announced today that they have added two new global partners to their collaborative 6G trials with the world's leading vendors and global operators: telecom operator SK Telecom Co., Ltd (SK Telecom) and Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG (Rohde & Schwarz), a manufacturer of high-frequency high-performance measurement instruments.
  • As part of its technical collaboration3 with DOCOMO and NTT, SK Telecom will participate in trials using AI technology to tailor radio interfaces for various propagation environments, which is being conducted jointly by DOCOMO with NTT and Nokia.
  • The trial will now be expanded to include environments closer to envisioned uses, leveraging SK Telecom's expertise as a telecom operator and ecosystem creator, similar to DOCOMO.
  • Through these efforts, DOCOMO and NTT aim to accelerate research and development that will contribute to the global standardization and commercialization of 6G.

NEC, Arm, Qualcomm, Red Hat, and Hewlett Packard Enterprise demonstrate Open vRAN and 5G Core UPF using Arm-based CPUs

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Wednesday, February 21, 2024

NEC's Open vRAN and the 5G Core vUPF deployed on the same server as the vCU are carrier-grade quality cloud-native applications, compliant to O-RAN Alliance and 3GPP standards.

Key Points: 
  • NEC's Open vRAN and the 5G Core vUPF deployed on the same server as the vCU are carrier-grade quality cloud-native applications, compliant to O-RAN Alliance and 3GPP standards.
  • They support multiple servers and virtualization platforms and are highly flexible and scalable for a variety of network scenarios and configurations.
  • The new solution includes the HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 powered by Ampere Altra Arm Neoverse-based processors with the Qualcomm X100 5G RAN Accelerator Card.
  • HPE ProLiant RL300 Gen11 servers offer an open and power-efficient platform for telco environments, broadening operator choice of infrastructure foundations for vRAN networks."