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expansion efforts on priority fields such as the
operation and management of increasingly complex
systems and the high-demand security systems
market. In the high-availability software market, our
CLUSTERPRO software held the No. 1 market
share*5 for the third consecutive year. This software
establishes a highly reliable system that prevents
business stoppages even when faults occur in the
system by providing operational redundancy using
multiple servers.
*2 A supercomputer with a large-memory vector processor that
can sequentially process large amounts of data.
*3 A server based on Intel architecture (IA).
*4 For x86 servers in Japan (in terms of unit shipments and factory
revenues) for the calendar years 1996 to 2007 (source: IDC Japan)
*5 For HA clustering software in Japan (in terms of revenues of
Windows and Linux) for the calendar years 2004 to 2006
(source: IDC Japan)
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During the fiscal year, NEC substantially expanded
its overseas sales, especially of network systems
for communications service providers.
One of the main contributors to this growth was
PASOLINK, an ultra-compact point-to-point micro-
wave wireless access system, for which shipments
rose sharply against the backdrop of ongoing con-
struction of mobile phone systems in Asia and other
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areas. Moreover, sales of NEC’s optical submarine
cable systems more than doubled year on year. As
part of the AAG Project (see chart below), NEC has
been commissioned, along with Alcatel-Lucent, to
lay a total of 20,000 km of submarine cable con-
necting Southeast Asia with the United States. This
is one of the world’s largest optical submarine cable
projects and completion is planned for the end of
2008. NEC is also part of a consortium laying optical
submarine cable in Alaska for GCI, a major com-
munications services provider.
Regarding the Long Term Evolution (LTE) next-
generation mobile communications system, for
which commercial services are expected to begin
around 2010, NEC has begun collaborating with
Alcatel-Lucent to rapidly introduce this system in
markets around the world.
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As NGN construction gets fully under way, NEC
expects growing business opportunities in all its
business domains, not only in Japan but also
elsewhere worldwide. By harnessing alliances
with other companies, we aim to expand our busi-
nesses globally by leveraging our strengths in both
IT and networks.