NEC's corporate R&D is carried
out by NEC's R&D Unit and has a dual role: the introduction of
cutting-edge research results into the product development cycle,
and the creation of new technologies for the future. NEC’s
laboratories operate at a global level, with sites throughout the
world.
In Europe we have two research laboratories, the Network
Laboratories in Heidelberg and our C&C Research Laboratories in
Sankt Augustin, Germany. Research and development functions are
integrated into the same organization to shorten the time to market
of cutting-edge network technologies. The laboratories place
special emphasis on solutions meeting the needs of NEC's European
customers.
Our continual challenge is to accelerate the exploitation of
research results in NEC's communication products and to strengthen
NEC's European business through joint work with current and future
NEC customers.
Network Laboratories
C&C Research
Laboratories
NEC Corporation
Laboratories
Examples of NEC Research and Development
Nanotechnology
Carbon
nanotube
NoW project
NEC actively contributes to collaborative research projects,
such as "FleetNet - Internet on the Road“ (2000-2003) and currently
"NoW – Network on Wheels“ (2004-2008) that has been partially
funded by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
(BMBF).
NEC has joined forces with automobile manufacturers, industrial
partners and universities to develop communication technologies
that improve road traffic safety based on inter-vehicle
communication. As automotive industry supplier and systems
provider, NEC has been working for over five years on technologies
that enable inter-vehicle and car-to-roadside communication. From a
technical viewpoint, NEC’s research and development efforts focus
on the development of communication protocols for ad-hoc networks,
the use of wireless LAN technology (WLAN IEEE 802.11 standards),
and Internet integration.
Standardisation is necessary so that vehicles from different car
manufacturers can communicate with each other. In order to achieve
a joint standard for inter-vehicle communication, NEC is member of
the C2CC – Car-to-Car Communication consortium, and it is working
in close collaboration with BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Volkswagen, and
other automobile manufacturers. The objective is to establish an
open industrial standard for 'Internet vehicle communication with
WLAN components' and to ensure pan-European interoperability. The
first products are expected after 2008, when the standard is in
place, and they are likely to be launched on the market sometime
between 2009 and 2012.
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