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*** For immediate use March 23, 2009
Tokyo, March 23, 2009 - NEC Corporation announced today the strengthening of its Next Generation Network (NGN) activities as an organizer of the "NGN Middleware Partner Program" in cooperation with eleven leading IT vendors (*1). The partnership program was first established in March 2008 in order to capitalize on the possibilities of NGN services. Today's announcement highlights the reinforcement of three points of development; (1) Establishment of an application partnership category; (2) Creation of new services in cooperation with partners; (3) Establishment of international standards.
Please see below for an overview of new partnership activities:
An application partnership category will be established, in addition to the existing middleware partnership category, in order to produce new applications and services that capitalize on NGN.
Companies participating in the new category include Anritsu Networks Co., Ltd., Empirix, K. K., Cisco Systems G.K., Shobunsha Publications, Inc. and Genesys Japan Co., Ltd.
NEC works with program partners in order to cooperatively propose and test a variety of new services that capitalize on each company's strengths to create NGN based solutions.
Solutions that utilize NGN's core session/QoS functions and solutions that are based on NGN middleware Application Programming Interfaces (API) are currently being completed.
The first versions of NGN middleware APIs have already been produced for internal use among program partners. As a result, the charging/billing portion of the API set was proposed as an amendment to the Parlay Service Access (PSA) specifications at the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) in February 2009.
Moreover, NEC and program partners cooperatively proposed the establishment of new Next Generation Service Interfaces (NGSI) at the OMA in order to create architecture and specifications for next generation network service APIs.
Looking forward, NEC aims to continue cultivating its NGN development position through innovation and cooperation with leading industry specialists.
About NEC Corporation
NEC Corporation is one of the world's leading providers of Internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions dedicated to meeting the specialized needs of a diversified global base of customers. NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and Networks, and by providing advanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs more than 150,000 people worldwide. For additional information, please visit the NEC website at: http://www.nec.com.
NEC is a registered trademark of NEC Corporation. All Rights Reserved. Other product or service marks mentioned herein are the trademarks of their respective owners. (C)2009 NEC Corporation.
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As of March 2009, the following eleven companies are members of the NGN Middleware Partner Program; IBM Japan, Ltd, EMC Japan K.K., Oracle Corporation Japan, Sun Microsystems K.K., Softfront, Novel Japan, Ltd., Hewlett-Packard Japan, Ltd., Microsoft Co., Ltd, Miracle Linux Corporation, MontaVista Software, Inc., Red Hat K.K.
Yoshibumi Yashiro
NEC Corporation
+81-3-3798-6511
E-Mail：y-yashiro@bc.jp.nec.com
Joseph Jasper
NEC Corporation
+81-3-3798-6511
E-Mail：j-jasper@ax.jp.nec.com
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