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“UNIVERGE฀PF฀series”฀programmable฀flow฀switches
For Further Growth
There is a strong trend toward commoditization among
the products offered in the system platform business,
making cost competitiveness essential for these products.
Under฀these฀conditions,฀NEC฀will฀work฀to฀reduce฀costs฀in฀
order to maintain competitiveness, while also continuing
efforts to enhance customer competitiveness by creating
new value through the use of ICT.
Efforts to reduce costs will focus in particular on
basing the manufacture of server and device hardware
on common platforms. This should reduce
development and parts costs, leading to a level of cost
competitiveness that will enable NEC to survive against
global competition.
Additionally, NEC will move away from providing
products and services on an individual basis, promoting
a shift toward offering an integrated mix of products
and service platforms, as it works to create new value
for its customers. One effort to realize this concept
began with the launch of “NEC Solution Platforms,” a
group of products that provides vertical integration of
system components optimized for specific industries
and applications. In addition to the initial 10 models,
which offer optimal combinations of hardware,
software, and network products in high-demand areas
such as Big Data and cloud service platforms, and
packages designed for specific industries and
applications, NEC will continue to expand its lineup of
models in response to customer needs.
Further, as a response to advanced technology, NEC
will continue its focus on the SDN field, building on its
extensive track record in both IT and networks to
steadily add to its portfolio of achievements in data
centers at home and abroad, and in corporate
networks and elsewhere.
NEC was also the first to develop “ExpEther”
technology, which enables efficient, low-cost system
scalability and data transfer acceleration in response to
increases in data volume, and is working with partners
worldwide to promote its use.
Through these efforts, NEC is working to provide
platforms for Solutions for Society, and deliver new
value to its customers.
*฀Source:฀฀฀CY1996–2012฀Japan฀x86฀Server฀Market฀(Unit,฀Factory฀Revenue฀
(Yen)), IDC, Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, 2013Q1
Supporting Customer Management Innovation with NEC Solution Platforms Introduction speed
Platform development time
Reduced by
up to
Reliability
Integration and operational know-how
Approx. projects
5,000
Cost
Introduction cost
Reduced by
up to
60%*
40%*
Customers
Solutions-oriented
  
Market for Public
Business
Market for
Enterprise
Business
Market for
Telecom Carrier
Business
Energy and
other new
markets
Organically integrated
Servers
Networks
Storage
PBX/key telephones
Software
Partner products
*Maximum benefit from within the lineup
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