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NEC NAMED STRATEGIC ALLIANCES Partner of the Year: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022
Cloud Metro
Sustainable Systems
Sustainable Architecture
Juniper Optics
Sustainable Operations
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Paragon Automation
IP Services Fabric
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Embedded Active Assurance
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AI-Enabled
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400G ZR/ZR+
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Sustainability in Action
Juniper Cloud Metro Networks Leave your retro metro in the past.
Achieve sustainable business growth. Future-proof your network. M etro traffic is projected to grow by 500%, every year, through 2027. More than that, increasingly sophisticated
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Issue 3, 2023 • The Baton is NEC XON’s biannual corporate magazine • NEC XON is an NEC Company • NEC XON combines the businesses of XON and NEC Africa. XON has been a systems integrator servicing the needs of government, enterprise, telcos and service providers in Africa since 1996. NEC Africa is the African operation of global technology giant NEC Corporation, which implemented its first communication solution in Africa in 1963. • Copyright reserved 2023. You may not reproduce any portion of this magazine without quoting the source fully or requesting permission from NEC XON’s duly appointed marketing representative. Registered and unregistered trademarks are protected by ownership and first-use common law in the Republic of South Africa and remain the property of their respective companies. • Editorial credits: NEC XON Marketing, Scarlet Letter.
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Decypher helps SMEs solve their
NEC XON helping to carry Africa’s
cyberattacks threaten network uptime. A shortage of skilled staff is disrupting operations. And manual operations, at scale, are not sustainable — especially when customers demand and expect uninterrupted services. More so, they expect service providers to be environmentally conscious and reduce factors detrimental to climate. Retro metros weren’t built for this. Service providers must reinvent their architectures to support new traffic patterns, capacity, and user expectations. Juniper Cloud Metro is architecture for a sustainable future. Built from the ground up on cloud principles that enable secure, guaranteed performance, it takes an innovative approach to delivering superlative experiences at the edge. It transforms the metro by building a next-generation network that is more intelligent, service-aware, and people-first. Juniper Cloud Metro includes: • Paragon Automation as a Service • ACX7000 Family of Cloud Metro routers • Scalable IP Services Fabric
biggest IT challenges
IT baton
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5G ORAN set to satisfy Africa’s
A pan-African vision for growth
appetite for mobile data
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New Human Capital team to help IT
Cloud-Delivered, AI-enabled Paragon Automation as a Service simplifies operations, frees up resources, and reduces time-to-service from months to minutes.
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Threat hunting from reactive to
execs source the right talent
proactive cybersecurity
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East Africa RMT boosts NEC XON’s
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American Tower company signs supply agreement with NEC XON to monitor sites Leading pathologist deploys managed cybersecurity Creating a facial recognition platform for Dakar Airport
business agility
ACX7000 is a family of multiservice routers with energy-efficient designs that achieve
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Malawi Fertilizer Company looks to NEC XON to provide Hybrid Power System
the right balance of density, scale, and performance with capacity to grow. The Scalable IP Services Fabric introduces new ways to build secured metro architecture for converged services and advanced
PEOPLE
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Open RAN security in 5G
Sustainable Business Growth
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Exciting times: Africa’s digital and
energy transformation
network slicing. Embedded Active Assurance agents turn Cloud Metro networks into a distributed sensor for assured
e-Voucher for Mozambican women 35 in distress
PROFIT
PLANET
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Cameras and sensors could kick off smart city strategies for SA Low-cost peering infrastructure from Teraco, TIP and NEC XON Airtel Kenya upgrades core Juniper network with NEC XON support
user experiences. Built-In Zero Trust Security ensures data at rest and in transit are well-protected, giving service providers and their end-users peace of mind. 400G ZR/ZR+ Optics reduce your costs by consolidating IP and optical layers with coherent optics, eliminating the DWDM transponder terminals’ entire layer by 400G ZR/ZR+ DCO integration. At Juniper, we make design choices not just for today, but for the next decade. You can build a more sustainable business with Cloud Metro–for your people, the planet, and profit. Statement of Product Direction
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· Embedded Active Assurance · Built-in Zero Trust Security
• 400G ZR/ZR+ Optics
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Our African footprint
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Solutions for an evolving world
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