NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT and communications solutions, and a pioneer in OpenFlow-based Software Defined Networking (SDN), today announced the SDN Application Center, which includes SDN solutions built upon customers’ top-of-mind SDN network concerns.

NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, communications, managed services and biometric solutions, today announced that it has joined with Desktone, Inc., the pioneer of Desktops as a Service (DaaS), to deliver cloud-hosted virtual desktops. By leveraging the Desktone Platform, the industry’s only multi-tenant virtual desktop platform architected for service providers, NEC can deliver cost-effective, full-featured Windows desktops to any device, thus meeting enterprises’ demands for BYOD and distributed and remote workforce support.

Wright State University (WSU), a Fairborn, Ohio research university, worked with NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced communication, IT and biometric solutions, to successfully complete the world’s first UNIVERGE^® SV8500 Ultra Module Group (UMG) deployment.

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701), a leader in the integration of IT and network technology,  and Portugal Telecom (PT), a leading global telecommunication service provider, announced today a partnership agreement to evaluate network virtualization based on Software Defined Network (SDN) technology for datacenters and carrier networks.

For the third consecutive year, Verizon and NEC Corporation of America announced they have set an industry record, this time by successfully sending the highest-capacity transmissions for regional and long-haul distances over field fiber.

NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, communication, and biometrics solutions, today announced a new integrated facial recognition product suite.  At its core the NEC NeoFace® Product Suite uses advanced facial processing and matching algorithms that have achieved high rankings in independent third-party testing indicating superior performance of NEC NeoFace technology in dealing with real-world, highly compressed images. NEC NeoFace image-matching algorithms achieved the highest ranking in 2010 accuracy tests conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)¹

NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, networking, communications, biometric and Software Defined Networking (SDN) solutions, will demonstrate southbound interoperability and multi-site controller capabilities of its award-winning ProgrammableFlow Controller with switches from seven leading vendors during the Open Networking Summit 2013 on April 15-17 in Santa Clara, CA. Enhancements to the controller architecture will provide customers with multi-data center controller support in a more scalable solution.

NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, networking, communications and biometric solutions, will be a Diamond Sponsor at Enterprise Connect 2013 Conference, the leading conference and exposition on enterprise communications and collaboration, taking place at the Gaylord Palms in Orlando, Florida, March 18-21.  Several NEC industry experts will present in conference sessions covering key industry trends and how enterprises can be transformed with leading edge unified communications and collaboration technologies. NEC will showcase its latest UNIVERGE® UC&C and Cloud technologies that are designed to empower multi-generational workforces to be more mobile, connected, collaborative and productive.

NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced that it has obtained CA Technologies’ (NASDAQ: CA) validation for NEC’s MasterScope Invariant Analyzer integration with several of CA Technologies’ Service Assurance solutions. NEC also has joined the Technology Partner Program from CA Technologies.

NEC Corporation of America (NEC), a leading provider and integrator of advanced IT, networking, communications and biometric solutions, today announced the launch of its fourth generation HYDRAstor HS8-4000. The HS8-4000 expands the maximum scalability of the HYDRAstor grid storage platform to greater than 900 TB/hr (250,000 MB/s) of throughput and greater than 100PB of effective capacity with inline global deduplication across a single scale-out system, further extending HYDRAstor’s lead as the fastest deduplication storage system available in the market today.

NEC Corporation of America (NEC) announced today the general availability of UNIVERGE Cloud Services UCaaS, a comprehensive suite of voice, data and video services that features a simple, web-based end-user client deployable across a multitude of devices, such as PCs, smartphones or tablets.