NEC collaborates with Amazon Web Services on global 5G and government support in Japan

NEC announced it has expanded its collaboration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) in the areas of global 5G and support for the digital government of Japan. NEC and AWS completed a corporate-level strategic collaboration pact in November 2020, and since then they’ve been developing offerings and strengthening delivery capabilities. NEC said it will now expand this collaboration in the areas of 5G, digital government and hybrid cloud. In 5G, NEC plans to develop an end-to-end offering and provide it globally by combining its own high-performance cloud-native open 5G mobile core, OSS/BSS solutions, local 5G use cases and more, as well as AWS cloud and edge solutions. The Japanese company stated it will accelerate telecommunications carriers’ cloudification of the network and enhance digital transformation for enterprises by deploying 5G-based infrastructure and applications at the network edge. In the area of digital government, NEC has been certified as an AWS Government Competency Partner based on the strategic collaboration that started last year and its achievements in governments to date. NEC plans to further strengthen its relationship with AWS going forward while focusing on developing and providing a menu of offerings to “accelerate the digital transformation for government activities in Japan.”