NEC Named Best of Interop 2012 Winner- ProgrammableFlow Controller Wins Grand Prize and the Management, Monitoring & Testing Category -

*** For immediate use May 9, 2012


Tokyo and Las Vegas, May 9, 2012 - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) announced today that NEC Corporation of America (NEC) has been named Best of Interop 2012 Winner, and its ProgrammableFlow Controller 2.0 has won both the Grand Prize and the Management, Monitoring & Testing category, as determined by a distinguished panel of judges at Interop Las Vegas, happening through May 10 at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

"The Best of Interop Awards presents leading edge technologies of the outstanding IT vendors in the industry," said Art Wittmann, Vice President and Director, InformationWeek Reports.  "NEC and each of the category winners represent a true commitment to innovation in business technology and deserve recognition for helping build and strengthen today's IT marketplace."

The ProgrammableFlow Controller 2.0 gives customers the ability to design, deploy, monitor and manage secure, multitenant networks from a single point of control. The updated controller builds upon the OpenFlow 1.0 standard to provide more control of network resources, while maintaining interoperability with other OpenFlow compliant equipment.

"Winning the Best of Interop award further validates the leading role of ProgrammableFlow in the software defined networking revolution," said Mitsuhiro Murooka, Vice President, NEC Enterprise Technologies IT. "We are honored that the distinguished panel of judges at Interop have recognized us for this work, which culminates in the ProgrammableFlow product suite."

Interop Best of Show recognizes technology companies and products that have made significant technological advancements in nine key areas. The winners in each category represent products that have the most significant technical impact on their segment, and are helping to move business technology forward, as deemed by a panel of expert judges.

"The business value of software defined networking (SDN) was recognized early on as NEC worked with teams at Stanford University on the development of the OpenFlow protocol," said Don Clark, director of business development, NEC Enterprise Technologies IT. "The NEC ProgrammableFlow Controller establishes a new category of network management by integrating best-in-class monitoring capabilities with network configuration management."

With NEC's multitenant network virtualization technology, organizations can programmatically manage the way traffic flows across the network, optimizing use of existing network resources and the appliances, servers, and storage connecting to the network, leading to service agility and higher staff productivity.

The ProgrammableFlow Controller and more can be seen on exhibit at Interop this week in NEC booth 815.

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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
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About NEC Corporation of America
Headquartered in Irving, Texas, NEC Corporation of America is a leading provider of innovative IT, biometrics, network, and communications products and solutions for service carriers, Fortune 1000 and SMB businesses across multiple vertical industries, including Healthcare, Government, Education and Hospitality. NEC Corporation of America delivers one of the industry's broadest portfolios of technology solutions and professional services, including unified communications, wireless, voice and data, managed services, server and storage infrastructure, optical network systems, microwave radio communications and biometric security. NEC Corporation of America is a wholly-owned subsidiary of NEC Corporation, a global technology leader with a presence in over 44 countries and more than $37 billion in revenues. For more information, please visit www.necam.com.



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