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Fingerprint identification system

Brasília is the capital of Brazil, South America’s largest country, and is home to a population of approximately 2.5 million. In Brasília, the Institute of Identification of the Civil Police of the Federal District (Instituto de Identificação da Policia Civil do Distrito Federal) issues civil identity documents that support the daily lives of residents. The issuance of civil identity documents was previously performed manually. However, as the population increased, the issuance of accurate civil documents had become a challenging priority for the Institute.
NEC’s Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) was the answer. Offering the world’s highest level of comparison accuracy of more than 99.9%, this technology has been adopted by the police forces, judicial agencies and immigration control authorities of more than 30 countries around the world.
In Brasília, civil identity documents are essential to people’s daily lives when using public services and in other situations. The civil identification system is also used as a database for criminal investigations. In 2011, 249,000 new identity documents were issued, with the number of people holding these documents increasing by around 40% compared with 2008. Through the use of this system, people are able to rapidly receive public services. The system has also contributed immensely to promptly solving criminal investigations including theft, burglary, and homicide cases.
NEC’s automated fingerprint authentication technology will continue to help enrich the quality of people’s lives and their security.

Quasi-Zenith satellite “MICHIBIKI”

From June 2011, NEC has participated in the provision of positioning signal technologies for the first Quasi-Zenith Satellite “MICHIBIKI” operated by the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
NEC is in charge of the development, manufacture and system integration of a "High Accuracy Positioning Experiment System" (positioning system), which comprises mission critical devices fitted to “MICHIBIKI” and ground stations, and a "Tracking & Control Ground System," which is used to control the satellite from the ground.
This Quasi-Zenith Satellite system is designed to provide high accuracy positioning signal services covering almost all of Japan, without any interference in the shadows of mountains, buildings and other obstacles. By making higher accuracy positioning signal information available, the satellite system will help to improve the safety and security of daily life in public sector areas such as transportation control and surveying, while helping to prevent crime and traffic accidents, as well as aiding rescue efforts. In these and other ways, the satellite is expected to find a broad range of uses as a platform for national land information.

PASOLINK

NEC launched business operations related to PASOLINK, an ultra-compact microwave communications system, in the early 1980s. Ever since, mobile communications has expanded rapidly and PASOLINK has been widely adopted as a microwave communications system for mobile backhaul linking base stations. As of May 31, 2012, NEC had shipped a total of 1.88 million PASOLINK units to 147 countries around the world. Mobile phones play a tremendous role in supporting communications in people’s daily lives. No more is this true than in developing countries, where fixed telephone infrastructure is underdeveloped.
In September 2010, NEC launched the iPASOLINK series—the new generation of PASOLINK products—to address new mobile communication standards enabling communications at even faster speeds. iPASOLINK is designed to meet the new communications standards introduced by various telecom carriers, such as 4G and LTE. NEC has already shipped 200,000 iPASOLINK units to 85 countries worldwide.
Furthermore, in February 2012, NEC successfully developed a new microwave transmission technology that will deliver a per-channel capacity increase of up to 40% compared with systems commonly in operation today. The latest breakthrough enables the world’s highest microwave transmission efficiency.

Installation of submarine cable

NEC has built up a leading track record in the global market for submarine cable systems over the past 40 years.
In 2011, NEC won orders for major submarine cable system projects. Projects included the approximately 7,200 km-long Asia Submarine-cable Express (ASE) linking Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong, the Philippines, and Malaysia, as well as the roughly 8,900 km-long South-East Asia Japan Cable (SJC) linking Japan, Singapore, China, Hong Kong, the Philippines and Brunei. Another major project was the upgrade installation on the Asia Pacific Cable Network 2 (APCN2), which consists of approximately 19,000 km of cable linking Japan, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines. This was the first that the 40 Gb/s dense wavelength division multiplexing (DWDM) terminal equipment for submarine cable systems developed by NEC had been used in a large-scale project.