VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

NEC Corporation and NEC Technologies India Private Limited have announced that they will establish a FIWARE Lab node in India. The objective is to encourage application developers and solution provider organizations, government bodies and academia to experiment and innovate FIWARE-based solutions for smart cities. Having a FIWARE Lab node within India will encourage more participation from Asian countries as they can keep all experimental and research data within the boundaries of the region. The FIWARE Lab node in India will help to foster a culture of collaboration between various participating entities and help to promote their solutions in the FIWARE community. With the Indian government increasing its focus on Open Source Software, FIWARE can introduce open APIs based on specifications which are public and royalty-free.... Read More

NEC Corporation and the DMIC Trust have formed a joint venture company, DMICDC Logistics Data Services Limited , for providing logistics visualization services in India. Both the companies hold 50% of the joint venture’s total capital of approximately 8 million Indian Rupees (INR). The new company will provide shippers and transport operators with logistics visualization services, enabling them to perform real-time searches based on accurate positional information, showing the location of containers being transported by rail or road between Delhi and Mumbai. This will make significant contributions to shortening shipping lead times, reducing inventory levels and improving the accuracy of production plans... Read more

To deliver Network Functions Virtualization (NFV)-based solutions, NEC Corporation and Juniper Networks have extended their global alliance relationship. The solutions will allow service providers and enterprises to gain service agility to transform their business operations and help them lower overall costs. “As part of its commitment to delivering an open, best-of-breed NFV-based solution, NEC has led an SDN/NFV ecosystem program with more than 40 partners worldwide. NEC is thrilled to be working closely with Juniper through this expanded alliance, which will further reinforce the ecosystem and allow NEC and Juniper to jointly offer NFV-based solutions that enable the introduction of innovative new services at higher speed and lower cost,” said Atsuo Kawamura , Senior Vice-President, NEC Corporation... Read more

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC Corporation is displaying its range of public safety and security solutions focusing on the concept of "safer cities" at IFSEC 2011 at Pragati Maidan in New Delhi. The three day ebvent ends today. Themed "We Make Cities Safer", the NEC exhibits showcase how governments and businesses can use technologies to safeguard lives and property. NEC's proven track record in public safety, leveraging on its comprehensive suite of integrated security solutions empower and enable public institutions to take preventive and protective measures to enhance public safety and minimize damage to property. These solutions assist public institutions in the management of people movements across and within borders, enforcement of law and order within a territory, protection of public facilities and vital installations, and ensuring order in the virtual world. Tan Boon Chin, Managing Director at NEC Asia Pacific's Regional Competency...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE NEC Corporation has announced that order receipts for NEC's iPASOLINK series have surpassed 110,000 units from nearly 100 operators spanning 55 countries, across Europe, Asia-Pacific and Latin America. iPASOLINK, NEC's flagship backhaul transport solution was launched in September 2010 and celebrates its one year anniversary on the back of a firm commitment from global operators. iPASOLINK is a converged flexible platform designed to meet the capacity, topology and intelligence requirements for the transformation of both fixed and mobile networks to the next generation of technologies, including 4G LTE. Its modular, flexible, all-in-one converged design incorporates packet, microwave and optical technologies. This ensures that network operators can deploy high-performance, next-generation networks without incurring unnecessary costs. "Operators worldwide in countries as diverse as Russia, Indonesia and Mexico face the challenge o...