NEC partners with Fortinet over 5G security

Japanese tech giant NEC is incorporating the security expertise of US company Fortinet into its ‘Open Networks ecosystem’.
NEC has been steadily building up not only its in-house 5G and Open RAN capabilities, but fairly aggressively expanding what it calls the NEC Open Networks ecosystem. The latter was the main theme of NEC’s presence at this year’s Mobile World Congress and the Japanese vendor is arguably the most significant player in pushing telecoms collaboration rig