NEC (NEC)

Organization profile: 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.

NEC Europe is a subsidiary of NEC Corporation based in the UK that builds upon its heritage and reputation for innovation and quality by providing its expertise, solutions and services to a broad range of European customers, from telecom operators to enterprises and the public sector. NEC Laboratories Europe is a laboratory established by NEC Europe Ltd. and is located in Heidelberg, Germany. NEC Laboratories Europe conducts leading research and development across IT and communications, including Future Internet and OpenFlow, next generation fixed and mobile networks, M2M, context-aware platforms and services, the Internet-of-Things, multimedia, security, energy-saving services and green technology. Special emphasis is placed on solutions that meet the needs of NEC’s European customers and as well as collaboration with industrial and academic partners within the European R&D Framework Programme (FP7, etc.). NLE in Heidelberg has participated in several European R&D projects since FP5 and took technical coordination roles in a number of recent FP7 projects.