NEC Corporation and Cisco have entered a Global System Integrator Agreement (GSIA) to expand their partnership for accelerating the deployment of innovative 5G IP transport network solutions worldwide.

Under the agreement, the companies will jointly drive new business opportunities for 5G. NEC group companies will work closely with Cisco to complement NEC’s ecosystem with optimized IP metro/access transport and edge cloud computing solutions.

Cisco will support NEC’s customer engagements by offering best-in-class products, proposals, and execution support.

The new agreement underlines NEC’s track record as a Cisco Gold Partner over two decades, and its engineering capabilities to provide Cisco products to its global customer base across multiple regions.

NEC’s expertise as a network integrator in both the IT and network domains, coupled with Cisco’s innovative 5G solutions portfolio, promise to provide tremendous added value to the 5G ecosystem.

NEC and Cisco will make collaborative efforts to further enhance their joint solution portfolio and to optimize regional activities for advancing the digital transformation of customers across the globe.