Juniper Networks and NEC Announce Plans to Develop Fixed Mobile Converged Network Solutions

Juniper Networks and NEC Announce Plans to Develop Fixed Mobile Converged Network Solutions

Juniper Networks, Inc. (NASDAQ: JNPR) and NEC Corporation of Japan (NASDAQ: NIPNY), global provider of IT/Network solutions, today announced their plans to expand their existing relationship to include development of IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS)-based Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC) solutions for the service provider market. This expanded relationship enables Juniper Networks and NEC to collaborate on providing comprehensive, best-in-class IMS-FMC solutions for wired and wireless service providers. This approach is intended to enable service providers to offer cost-effective, reliable and secure IMS-FMC services.

“By working to combine NEC’s advanced products and solutions for fixed and mobile networks with Juniper Networks carrier-class IP routers, Broadband Remote Access Server and security products, we expect to come one step closer to merging the Internet with the cellular world,” said Botaro Hirosaki, Ph.D., executive vice president of NEC.

“FMC is a partnership between application and service layer resources that must be tuned to the combined needs of wireless and wireline, and market-tuned infrastructure that conforms the overall market and regulatory framework of each geography served,” said Tom Nolle, president and CEO, CIMI Corporation. “Juniper and NEC are making a smart decision in partnering to serve this kind of symbiotic need in the optimum way. Together they offer an on-the-point solution set to address what might well be the most important issue in the telecommunications infrastructure space today.”

“This initiative reinforces our commitment to partnering with industry leaders, such as NEC, to deliver open, agile and customizable solutions to enhance the value of next-generation networks,” said Kim Perdikou, executive vice president, Infrastructure Products Group and general manager, Service Provider Business Team, Juniper Networks. “Together, Juniper Networks and NEC are working to make it easier and more cost-effective for service providers to offer services such as VoIP, gaming, videoconferencing, messaging and other content sharing applications over a common IP network infrastructure.”

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