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Tokyo, October 26, 2015 - NEC Corporation (NEC; TSE: 6701) today announced its participation in Futurecom 2015, a leading trade fair for the telecommunications and IT industries in Latin American, taking place from 26 - 29 October at the Transamerica Expo, Sao Paulo, Brazil. NEC is displaying a portfolio of innovative technologies at booth C24, including its biometric solutions for advancing public safety and its Network Function Virtualization (NFV), virtualized Customer Premises Equipment (vCPE), LTE Small Cells and iPASOLINK systems for optimizing the communications field.

As a leader in the security solutions market, NEC is displaying biometrics and video analytics technologies that include the NeoScan45, a portable system for capturing fingerprints, as well as the NeoFace Watch & Review, which authorities use to detect individuals placed on watch lists. NEC's image recognition algorithms have been recognized as the world's most accurate by the US-based National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a global authority in the measurement standards.

Moreover, Futurecom visitors have the opportunity to view NEC's crowd analysis solution, which utilizes advanced image technology, video analytics, and a series of specialized parameters to automatically detect suspicious behaviors or abandoned objects.

In addition to NEC's booth demonstrations, NEC representatives are delivering presentations on a wide range of telecommunications topics, including market trends, future outlooks and network challenges.

"The adoption of virtualized systems enables telecom operators to maximize hardware resources, centralize network functions, such as software updates or the creation of new functionalities, and to optimize operations and maintenance, thereby drastically reducing costs and accelerating the ability to provide new value-added services to end-users," said Mr. Daniel Mirabile, president of NEC in Brazil.

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