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NEC Announces Progress on Environmental, Social and governance initiatives to support sustainable growth for the company and society

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Friday, September 30, 2022

Under the Mid-term Management Plan 2025(1), NEC is committed to reinforcing non-financial measurement methodologies to underpin sustainable growth for the company and society.

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  • Under the Mid-term Management Plan 2025(1), NEC is committed to reinforcing non-financial measurement methodologies to underpin sustainable growth for the company and society.
  • The progress made thus far is outlined in the NEC Sustainability Report 2022 posted on the NEC Global website.
  • NEC's business is highly public so that information security and cyber security are material issues for the company in the social field.
  • Its Sustainability Scorecard illustrates performance across 21 indicators in four themes: Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics and Sustainable Procurement.

NTT DOCOMO and NEC Reduce Power Consumption for 5G SA Core by an Average of 72% using AWS Graviton2, Followed by a Successful Onboarding of 5G SA Core on Hybrid Cloud

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Thursday, September 29, 2022

The trial demonstrated an average of a 72% reduction in power consumption against incumbent x86 processors using NEC's 5GC software running on AWS Graviton2.

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  • The trial demonstrated an average of a 72% reduction in power consumption against incumbent x86 processors using NEC's 5GC software running on AWS Graviton2.
  • The trial tested performance within a 5GC hybrid cloud environment leveraging AWS Graviton2 and DOCOMO's on-premises Network Functions Virtualization (NFV) infrastructure.
  • AWS Graviton2 processors deliver a major leap in performance and help reduce the carbon footprint of IT workloads through energy efficiency.
  • In this proof of concept, the use of Graviton2 was able to reduce power consumption of 5GC by 72%, on average.

NEC and Red Hat Expand Global Collaboration to Drive IT Modernization and Digital Transformation

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Thursday, September 29, 2022

- NEC solutions built and delivered on Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform for mission-critical applications -

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  • - NEC solutions built and delivered on Red Hat OpenShift, the industry's leading enterprise Kubernetes platform for mission-critical applications -
    Tokyo and Raleigh, N.C., Sept 29, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation and Red Hat, Inc., the world's leading provider of open source solutions, today announced an expanded global collaboration to drive IT modernization and digital transformation on Red Hat OpenShift.
  • NEC was recently announced as a Red Hat Premier Business Partner and was the first certified partner to support Red Hat OpenShift in Japan.
  • NEC and Red Hat will strengthen joint engineering activities, including Kubernetes community collaboration(2) and co-located global engineering resources in order to expand NEC's solutions with Red Hat OpenShift.
  • Red Hat, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the Red Hat logo and OpenShift are trademarks or registered trademarks of Red Hat, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the U.S. and other countries.

NEC Launches Open RAN cloud-native virtualized software suite to extend the NEC Open Networks best of breed ecosystem

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Thursday, September 29, 2022

TOKYO, Sept 29, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) introduces its open virtualized RAN software suite to the international market.

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  • TOKYO, Sept 29, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) introduces its open virtualized RAN software suite to the international market.
  • NEC's vCU/vDU software suite leverages the company's long history of technological leadership and commitment to improving Open Radio Access Networks (RAN).
  • NEC Open Networks is an ecosystem that provides operators with choice in every category with best-of-breed solutions and services from both NEC and its partners in Open RAN radio units, software, open transport, converged packet core, automation, and orchestration.
  • NEC will continue integrating, commercializing, and deploying multiple ecosystem partners in this vRAN software suite to meet its customers' needs.

NEC Launches North American Innovation Hub for Open RAN

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Wednesday, September 28, 2022

TOKYO, Sept 28, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has created a North American 5G innovation unit in New Providence, New Jersey, to expand product development and cater to the growing global demand for Open RAN solutions.

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  • TOKYO, Sept 28, 2022 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has created a North American 5G innovation unit in New Providence, New Jersey, to expand product development and cater to the growing global demand for Open RAN solutions.
  • NEC Advanced Networks is led by Rahul Chandra, a longtime technology and business development leader in the telecommunications industry.
  • Using the former Blue Danube resources to create a center of innovation and product development is an important advancement as NEC continues its push for Open RAN 5G solutions built on multi-vendor ecosystems.
  • Tatewaki continued, "As the Open RAN market rapidly grows, we need to expand our presence to achieve global goals.