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NEC Participates in SDN & OpenFlow World Congress 2013

Tokyo & London October 11, 2013 - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced its participation in the SDN & OpenFlow World Congress in Bad Homburg, Frankfurt, Germany from October 15-18, 2013.

At the congress, various SDN experts from the company will present industry foresight and market insight during keynotes, presentations and panel discussions. In addition, NEC will showcase demonstrations of Virtual Evolved Packet Core (vEPC) and Virtual DataCenter (vDC) at the NEC exhibition stand.

Date/Time	Session	Speaker	Contents
October 15 9:45-10:15	Open Networking Foundation workshop	Dr. Daniele Abbadessa, Business Development Manager, NEC Europe Ltd.	Joint presentation with Dr. Diego López, Head of Technology Exploration, Telefónica I+D, about an SDN/NFV use case
October 16 14:40-15:05	SDN Cloud & Data Centre Forum	Mr. Gerry Feeney, Head of Market Development, NEC Europe Ltd.	Software Defined Networking: A path to programmable networks
October 16 17:30-18:00	Panel Debate- Cloud innovation using SDN	Mr. Gerry Feeney, Head of Market Development, NEC Europe Ltd.
October 17 9:40-10:05	Keynote	Mr. Kazuya Hashimoto, Executive Vice President, NEC Europe Ltd.	The way towards the Service Driven Network
October 18 12:20 -13:00	Panel Debate – Mobile SDN/NFV	Dr. Dirk Kutscher, Research Group Manager, NEC Laboratories Europe

“Carrier network environments are changing dramatically, including the diversification of services and business models, traffic profiles, disaster resiliency and ecological concerns. These changes are driving the evolution of carrier networks towards greater simplicity and flexibility,” said Kazuya Hashimoto, Executive Vice President, Carrier Solutions EMEA at NEC Europe. “NEC has channeled its extensive experience and unparalleled technological expertise into developing robust, ultra-low latency, carrier-grade SDN. NEC’s SDN solutions enable users to provide network services that configure themselves flexibly according to individual service needs for a true ‘Service Driven Network’.”

NEC’s continuous promotion of SDN includes its participation in leading industry events such as “SDN World” in Barcelona, SDN and OpenFlow APAC in Singapore and the SDN summit & NFV World in Prague. Going forward, NEC aims to maintain a leading role in the development and application of SDN solutions.

For more information on NEC’s SDN solutions, please visit:

http://www.nec.com/sdn/

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About NEC Corporation

NEC Corporation is a leader in the integration of IT and network technologies that benefit businesses and people around the world. By providing a combination of products and solutions that cross utilize the company’s experience and global resources, NEC’s advanced technologies meet the complex and ever-changing needs of its customers. NEC brings more than 100 years of expertise in technological innovation to empower people, businesses and society. For more information, visit NEC at http://www.nec.com.