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innovation near Tokyo. Provisionally named “NEC Innovation Building”, it will be used by around 4,700 people belonging to organisations involved in innovation. It’s part of NEC’s aim to become a forum for “creating knowledge” by working with startups and partners around the world and driving social value through innovation. NEC INDUSTRY AWARDS HIGHLIGHT OPEN RAN LEADERSHIP • NEC won the award for `Best Vendor’ at the new Telecom Review Global Excellence Awards in December 2022 for delivering the most open and high-performance 5G networks. The award win recognises NEC’s investment and innovation across its NEC Open Networks offering.
Awards 2022, which recognise innovation and excellence from companies that are transforming the telecoms industry. IMAGE RECOGNITION TECHNOLOGY DIGITALISES WORK ACTIVITIES NEC has developed a highly accurate technology that recognises – in real time – a wide variety of work activities performed by multiple people from images captured by cameras. Even in congested environments with many people, such as construction sites, which have been difficult to accurately analyse until now, it is possible to stably recognise various work activities at one time.
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N EC XON parent company in the integration of IT and network technologies. The company enables businesses and communities to adapt to rapid changes taking place in society and the market. Committed to safety, security, fairness and efficiency, NEC Corporation promotes a more sustainable world NEC Corporation is a leader where everyone has the chance to reach their full potential. We celebrate with them some recent company highlights. GLOBAL INNOVATION BASE NEC Corporation is constructing a 12-storey green global base for
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OVERCROWDING AT BUSY EVENTS Imagine a smooth entry to big events with no congestion at the doors. That’s what NEC’s combination of face recognition and person re- identification technologies enables. Using biometric recognition to authenticate large numbers of people the Gateless Access Control System matches people and provides fast, reliable entry control. Instead of using gates, which cause bottlenecks as crowds pass through, authentication can be performed even when lots of people enter, reducing congestion and enabling visitors to move through quickly.
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NEC won the Editors’ Choice Award for `Most Innovative Open RAN Solution or Product’ at Light Reading’s Leading Lights Awards 2022. The award win bolsters NEC’s leadership position in the Open Radio Unit (O-RU) segment. 18 new O-RU products launched in 2022 help meet the demands of private and public mobile networks that will drive Open RAN initiatives. NEC was commended for its ‘Outstanding Contribution to Open RAN’ at the Global Telecom
N EC XON Western Cape’s Decypher, a managed shared service that helps SMEs overcome their biggest, most common IT-related challenges, is a cloud- based software-as-a-service and security network management service for the SME market. “The biggest SME challenges are limited access to skilled resources, understanding what drives network performance, security, and how that constrains business operations and growth potential,” said Brad Kewney, Regional Head of Coastal Regions at NEC XON. “This is the only service of its kind in the country designed
effectively through a single pane, and enjoy a number of business benefits, including flexibility and greater functionality.” Decypher is a 24x7 service that provides standard packages based on the number of users, the amount of data that can be retained, and the reports it provides. It can also be adapted based on specific business needs. “We’ve worked closely with internal architects and vendor partners to create this flexible service based on enterprise-grade solutions and powered by FortiNet’s FortiAnalyzer,”
for analysis and reporting needs.”
The single pane view into the business’s network has a number of benefits, including simplifying management, improving security, reducing operational overheads, and reducing costs. “Decypher provides a comprehensive monitoring solution with multiple levels of views and summaries of critical alerts in real-time,” said Grant Ferreira, Security Solutions Architect at NEC XON. “SMEs can spot all the top threats and indicators of compromise (IOC) to their network.
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said Kewney. “We manage the customer’s network devices, integrating them into our environment without accessing their client data. That stays in their
“The biggest SME challenges are limited access to skilled resources, understanding what drives network performance, security, and how that constrains business operations and growth potential.”
domain and log files are stored in South Africa, so it’s fully POPI compliant. We pull only the relevant data to create a single pane of glass
for the SME. It helps businesses analyse networks, understand the complete environment, manage it
Brad Kewney, Regional Head of Coastal Regions at NEC XON
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