NEC collaborating with Cisco today, announced a strategic relationship in the construction and sale of commercial long-term evolution (LTE) networks for service providers.

The companies plan to jointly provide the end-to-end equipment for building LTE networks for service providers, including NEC's wireless network equipment (eNodeB), NEC's mobile backhaul solutions and Cisco's Mobile Internet network equipment ASR5000 .

Furthermore, after interoperability testing under real world and worst-case scenarios, NEC and Cisco have completed network verifications in preparation for the construction of LTE networks in a variety of environments for the delivery of a variety of mobile broadband services.

Also NEC boast experience fully installing NTT DOCOMO's commercial LTE service, "Xi," from infrastructure to handsets. NEC has also shipped commercial wireless base stations for KDDI, and the company's global accomplishments in the area include participation in a number of LTE field trials with SingTel and Telefonica.