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NEC to Supply Cutting-Edge Broadband Fiber Optic System to Mexico
HERNDON, VA -- NEC Corporation (Nasdaq: NIPNY) announced today that it has been selected to supply its SpectralWave(TM) Dense
Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) system by Telefonos De Mexico, S.A. de C.V. (TELMEX), the largest telecommunication operator in Mexico. The company completed the shipment, which included an SDH fiber optic
system, through NEC de Mexico. The TELMEX project is the first DWDM
deployment for NEC in Latin America. NEC has been a major SDH fiber optical
network vendor in Mexico. NEC's terrestrial DWDM system has been deployed in the United States,
Japan, Asia and Europe, and the company is one of the world's leading DWDM
submarine systems vendors -- supplying DWDM systems to large submarine cable
projects such as APCN2, AJC and EAC2. NEC's SDH fiber optic system and the DWDM system, with a capacity of
2.5Gbps x 80 Wave/200Gbps, will be implemented in the metropolitan area of
Monterrey, Mexico's third-largest city (pop. 3.5 million), supporting the
city's mobile and Internet communication. Due to the rapid expansion of worldwide broadband communications, and the
corresponding increase in voice, video and data traffic, the
telecommunications infrastructure in Mexico's densely populated areas is
rapidly expanding to meet the demand. NEC's DWDM system is a key technology
for mobile and Internet traffic as a next-generation broadband network
solution and is being deployed in order to broaden the traffic capacity of the
country's trunk network system. This project is an important step for NEC's DWDM business in Latin
America. A combination of NEC's worldwide deployment of DWDM systems and NEC
Mexico's total solution capabilities -- from system design, implementation to
customer services -- were favorably evaluated for the order from TELMEX. NEC will continuously promote its DWDM system in Mexico and other Latin
American countries such as Brazil, Argentine, Chile and Costa Rica and plans
to further expand its networking solutions to operators in all over the world. For further information visit www.nec.com/