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NEC Participates in SDN & OpenFlow World Congress 2013
*** For immediate use October 11, 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 Lopez, Head of Technology Exploration, Telefonica 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/
About NEC Corporation
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