NEC views its new facility at Greater Springfield, Ipswich City, as so important that the company’s global chairman, Hajime Sasaki, flew out form Japan to officially declare it open last month.

NEC has taken the lead by opening a business centre in Springfield Tower and is now within months of completing its state-of-the-art data centre at the new adjacent Polaris building. The event, also attended by Minister Rob Schwarten and Ipswich City Council officials including Mayor Paul Pisasale, marked the official opening of the Springfield commercial district at Australia’s fasted growing master-planned city. 

Businesses moving to the area can now take advantage of NEC’s purpose built infrastructure and hosted business and connectivity services – underpinning Springfield Land Corporation chairman Maha Sinnathamby’s plans to make the city Australia’s “most connected community”.

Ipswich City Mayor, Cr Pisasale took it a step further with a  tongue-in-cheek offer to the NEC chairman to shift the company’s headquarters to Ipswich. 

The new Springfield network provides anytime, anywhere exchange of information using state of the art NEC fully managed ICT technology and services, said NEC state manager Nigel Sellars.  NEC has formed an alliance with Springfield Land Corporation (SLC) – Springfield’smaster developers – to provide the ICT infrastructure for the entire city. In addition, NEC has signed a $15million agreement to lease a significant proportion of the purpose built Polaris Data Centre to support the delivery of hosted ICT services to Springfield’s burgeoning business community.  NEC is Springfield Land Corporation’s ICT partner of choice and will deliver organisations in the region with everything they need to run their business from fax machines to managed networks and managed software applications. NEC has leveraged decades of experience in IT and networking for carriers and operators worldwide, to accelerate the growth potential for businesses in Greater Springfield with end-to-endsolutions customised for their market needs and business objectives.NEC Australia’s managing director, Wataru Takeuchi said, “The most important aspect to any modern city is connectivity. By building a city from scratch, it’s been possible to implement the very best and most efficient communications network from the ground up, providing unrivalled access to services and functionality for all businesses. In a sense, we’ve provided all the IT infrastructure and services you’d expect from amodern managed office on a citywide scale.” TECHNOLOGY LEADSpringfield Land Corporation general manager of commercial projects, Chris Schroor said the signing was a real coup for the ever-evolving city and is evidence Greater Springfield’s CBD is destined to become one of the premier business addresses in South East Queensland’s western corridor.“We are excited to work with NEC, the company is a household name and its faith in the future of Greater Springfield is a big boost for our city,” Mr Schroor said. “The partnership with NEC provides new businesses instant access to essential infrastructure and managed services from the day they move in. NEC’s presence in the city will create numerous jobs now and in the future, offering residents of Greater Springfield further opportunities to work and live close together.”NEC will join a range of other large companies which have taken space at Springfield Tower and the Polaris Data Centre including GHD Engineering, Dalkia, Landpartners, Quest Newspapers and Insurserv. Springfield Land Corporation has also based its headquarters at the Tower.Designed by Haysoms Architects and constructed by Hutchinson Builders, Springfield Tower is the first high rise building to be completed in the Greater Springfield CBD.The 10-storey tower is has four Green Stars and 4.5 Star NABERS ratings, offering 9,311sqm of A-grade office space featuring large efficient floor plates, high levels of natural light and secure underground parking.Mr Schroor said the alliance with NEC will play a pivotal role in further developing Greater Springfield as a world class, technologically advanced city.  “Springfield will be developed with fibre optic backbone extending out to all new residences and pre-provisioned within the CBD area,” he said.  “It will also be linked through a diverse dark-fibre network connection to Brisbane CBD and local optic fibre connections across Springfield Central.”The $220million Polaris Data Centre has been designed as a primary and secondary data centre and also acts as a disaster recovery site, internet data centre and a carrier interconnect exchange for Springfield Central tenants.Mr Schroor said the Tier 3+ design will handle the availability and performance demands of any international or national blue chip company.  “The Centre has been designed to support the needs of State, Federal and commercial customers,” he said.Springfield Tower and the Polaris Data Centre are situated in the heart of Parkside, part of Greater Springfield’s growing CBD, with easy access to universities, public and private schooling, Orion Shopping Centre, 24ha of parklands and the award winning Brookwater Golf Course.NEC Corporation is one of the world’s leading providers of internet, broadband network and enterprise business solutions, said NEC state manager Mr Sellars. “NEC delivers tailored solutions in the key fields of computer, networking and electron devices, by integrating its technical strengths in IT and networks, and by providingadvanced semiconductor solutions through NEC Electronics Corporation. The NEC Group employs more than 150,000 people worldwide." http://www.nec.com.au/http://www.greaterspringfield.com.au/

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