HPE and NEC Alliance
Achieve sustainable business growth, improved end-to-end performance, and fast rollouts.
HPE and NEC have formed a strategic alliance
HPE Networking and NEC have formed a strategic alliance to support customers in delivering agile and highly scalable network infrastructures. This partnership brings together NEC's extensive experience in IT and communications markets with HPE's leadership in hybrid IT and intelligent edge solutions. The collaboration focuses on jointly developing technologies and solutions that accelerate network transformation for enterprises and service providers globally.
Why NEC and HPE Networking?
Biography of the relationship includes hundreds of engineers certified on HPE Networking solutions which are validated in NEC's global Centers of Excellence from R&D phases.
- 18 years
NEC and HPE Networking have been innovating worldwide networks as partners since 2007 with unparalleled expertise leading service providers in their network transformation journeys.
- 5th consecutive
During the recent HPE GSI Partner Excellence Awards ceremony, NEC was recognized as the 2026 HPE Networking Service Provider Global Alliance of the Year.
- 60+
Collective global footprint of hundreds of service providers in over 60 countries.
Pillars of our partnership
Unlock your network for the 5G era with NEC and HPE Networking
Digital transformation is a top priority for service providers, enterprises, and governments. 5G infrastructure is crucial for connecting physical and virtual worlds globally, including people, businesses, and objects. HPE Networking is a key partner of NEC Open Networks, which aims to offer end-to-end (E2E) 5G solutions, breaking vendor lock-in and enabling migration to modern, open, and flexible networks. NEC, a proven global system integrator, and HPE Networking bring extensive networking experience, empowering service providers to introduce innovative fixed and mobile services and seize new business opportunities with sustainable growth.
Now is the time to transform your network with AIOPs
Each company's network is unique, and everyone has their own journey towards Digital Transformation. The NEC Network Transformation Service, powered by Juniper AI-Native, drives this transformation by making networks more robust, simple, and sustainable. This multi-vendor, multi-layer service enables businesses to lay the foundation for digital innovation, fostering growth and success across the globe.
The HPE Networking AI-Native platform combined with AIOPs helps to automate and optimize network operations. The partnership with NEC enables organizations to transform their networks with AI-driven insights and automation, improving network performance, reducing downtime, and enhancing the overall user experience.
By partnering with NEC, HPE Networking leverages NEC's expertise in network transformation services to deliver a powerful, AI-native solution to customers. As a proven prime integrator of complex, multi-vendor, end-to-end open networks in the 5G era, NEC's success is built on a philosophy of collaboration and partnership. Powered by NEC's system integration service with rich expertise from HPE Networking solutions, together we innovate E2E open networks to drive NEC Open Networks for better user experience.
Protection and privacy for IP and data
Digital transformation is a top priority for service providers, enterprises, and governments. 5G infrastructure is crucial for connecting physical and virtual worlds globally, including people, businesses, and objects. HPE Networking is a key partner of NEC Open Networks, which aims to offer end-to-end (E2E) 5G solutions, breaking vendor lock-in and enabling migration to modern, open, and flexible networks. NEC, a proven global system integrator, and HPE Networking bring extensive networking experience, empowering service providers to introduce innovative fixed and mobile services and seize new business opportunities with sustainable growth.
AI-driven campus networks
HPE Networking's experience-first approach provides AI-driven insights and automation to the enterprise campus networks. Juniper Mist AI uses a combination of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data science techniques to optimize user experiences and simplify operations across the wireless access, wired access, SD-WAN, WAN Edge, data center, and security domains.
NEC provides consultancy and implementation services to the Juniper AI-Native Networking Platform through the automated and real-time AI-driven insights of the network.
NEC multi-vendor data center networks with HPE Networking AI Data Center Networking
HPE Networking's AI data center networking provide simple and seamless operator experiences that save time and money with advanced networking capabilities designed to support the demands of modern cloud environments. These solutions are specifically engineered to optimize performance, scalability, and agility within data centers. The solutions incorporate technologies such as the data center fabric, network automation with Apstra® to enable efficient management and provisioning of resources.
As part of NEC Value Added Network Solutions, with the networking expertise of HPE Networking and NEC, organizations can build robust and flexible data center architectures that meet the requirements of cloud-based applications and services.
