NEC aims to get 70 percent of revenue from services

Stuart Corner
Wednesday, 17 June 2009 06:11

IT Industry - Strategy

This was followed in February 2009 with the release of th SV8500 designed to offer NEC's largest circuit switch telephony customers a migration path to IP based unified communications.

This was followed in November 2008 with Australia being the first country to get NEC's new SaaS offering for SMEs, Application Net providing a common portal to a range of business applications from other vendors together with NEC unified communications offerings. NEC claimed it to be superior to other offerings in that it incorporates technology to 'federate' contact information across all the available applications and to integrate the contact information within these applications with the unified communication offering.

Other initiatives to boost service offerings include its Nextep broadband ISP subsidiary striking a deal with Telstra to wholesale ADSL2+ services in November 2008. And in March 2009 NEC announced that the Nextep network would be upgraded with Juniper Networks' M and MX Series routers into its core network to enable "the rapid deployment of new advanced voice, video and data offerings while improving the performance and efficiency of [Nextep's] existing high-performance broadband services."