NEC recognized in Gartner Magic Quadrant for 5G Network Infrastructure for Communications Service Providers as a Visionary TOKYO, Apr 28, 2021 - (JCN Newswire) - NEC Corporation (TSE: 6701) has been recognized as a Visionary in the February 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant for 5G Network Infrastructure for Communications Service Providers. According to the report, "This Magic Quadrant helps communications service providers identify and evaluate network equipment providers for their 5G network infrastructure. This end-to-end 5G network infrastructure includes RAN, core network, transport and network infrastructure services." NEC has been a pioneer and strong industry leader in open, software defined, cloud-native networks from the early adoption of SDN, including the world's first commercial deployment of OpenFlow, as well as the recent commercial launch of its Open RAN radio units and cloud-native containerized 5G core network. This is in addition to its subsidiary Netcracker's industry leadership in 5G orchestration, operations automation and monetization.