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| Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. 华为技术有限公司 | |
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| Type | Privately-held company |
| Founded | 1988 |
| Founder | Ren Zhengfei |
| Headquarters | Shenzhen, China |
| Industry | Telecommunication |
| Revenue | 16 billion USD (2007) |
| Net income | 512 million USD (2006) |
| Employees | 70,000 (2007) |
| Website | www.huawei.com |
Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Chinese: 华为技术有限公司; pinyin: Huáwei Jíshu Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) in Shenzhen, Guangdong, People\'s Republic of China is the largest networking and telecommunications equipment supplier in China and one of the world leaders in this industry.
Established in 1988 by Ren Zhengfei Ren Zhengfei - Modeled After Mao. Time Magazine. 2005., Huawei Technologies is a private high-tech enterprise which specializes in research and development (R&D), production and marketing of communications equipments, and providing customized network solutions for telecom carriers. Huawei serves 35 of the top 50 telecoms operators and puts 10 per cent of revenue into R&D each year.China\'s technological challenger. The New Zealand Herald. March 15, 2007. In addition to the R&D centers in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Xi’an, Chengdu, and Wuhan in China, Huawei has also R&D centers in Stockholm, Sweden; Dallas and Silicon Valley, U.S.; Bangalore, India; Ferbane in Offaly, Ireland; Moscow, Russia.
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(Chinese: 华为技术有限公司; pinyin: Huáwei Jíshu Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) officially translates in English to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.. The character 华 means the country of China, also can be used as abjective to mean splendid, magnificent. The character 为 means action or achievement. Huáwei itself variously translates as "achievement", "magnificent act" or "splendid act", although breaking down the meaning of such a given name is analogous to noting that in Hebrew "David" means "beloved one". Such a translation is an etymological curiosity, not to be used generally.
Huawei was founded by Ren Zhengfei in 1988http://www.huawei.com/corporate_information/milestones.do Major events on Huawei official website, as a distributor of imported PBX products, with an initial registered capital of 24000 RMB. By 1989, Huawei started developing and later marketing its own PBX. After accumulating knowledge and resources on PBX business, Huawei achieved its first breakthrough into mainstream telecommunication market in 1993, by launching C&C08 digital telephone switch, which had a switching capacity of over 10K circuits. Until that time, Chinese domestic telecom companies were not able to build switches with such capacity. Huawei\'s switches were first deployed only in small cities and rural areas. It eventually gained market share and made its way into major city switch offices and toll service. Other Huawei products also likely have such a history for their adoption, against the competition of then dominating foreign telecom equipment manufacturers.
In 1994, Huawei established long distance transmission equipment business, launched its own HONET integrated access network and SDH product line. In 1996, Huawei captured its first overseas contract, providing fixed-line network products to Hongkong\'s Hutchison-Whampoa. Later, in 1997, Huawei released its GSM product and eventually expanded to offer CDMA and UMTS.
The United States alleged that in 2000 Huawei installed a telecommunications system in Iraq, which would have been in violation of U.N. sanctions. However, China\'s foreign minister Tang Jiaxuan denied that Chinese enterprises and corporations assisted Iraq in building the fiber optic cables for air defense, and the United States did not accuse Chinese workers of building fiber optic cables specifically. Powell: China agrees to stop helping Iraq. CNN. March 8, 2001 ISG Final Report. GlobalSecurity.org. Sept 30, 2004. Made in the USA. LA Weekly, Mar 20, 2003.
From 1998 to 2003, Huawei contracted IBM for management consulting and undergone significant transformation of its management and product development structure. After 2001, Huawei increased its speed of expanding into oversea market. By 2004, its overseas sales had surpassed that of the domestic market. Huawei has a joint venture with Siemens for developing TD-SCDMA products. In 2003, Huawei entered into a joint venture named Huawei-3Com with 3Com for Internet Protocol-based routers and switches, eventually selling its 49% stake to Huawei in 2007 for $US 882 million. 3Com\'s Big China Venture. Forbes. Nov 29, 2006.
Huawei and American security firm Symantec announced in May 2007 the forming of a joint-venture company that will develop security and storage appliances to market to telecommunications carriers. Huawei will own 51% of the new company, to be named Huawei-Symantec Inc. Symantec will own the rest. The joint-venture will be based in Chengdu.Huawei, Symantec form joint venture. ZDNet Australia. May 22, 2007.
World\'s First 3.5G Datacard with Mobile TV Functionality [Hannover, 4 March 2008] Huawei Technologies Co.,Ltd. ("Huawei"), a leader in providing next generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, today announced that it has launched the world\'s first mobile TV capable 3.5G datacard, called the E510, at CEBIT, the world\'s largest communications showcase event for consumer electronics, held in Hannover, Germany.
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Huawei provides fixed network, mobile network, data communications, optical network, software & services and terminals, including modems --- ranging from switching, integrated access network, NGN, xDSL, optical transport, intelligent network, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, W-CDMA, CDMA2000, a full series of routers and LAN switches, videoconferencing, terminals to other key telecom technology fields. Huawei manufactures also mobile phones (e.g., Huawei supplies Vodafone with exclusive Vodafone-branded 3G mobile handsets Vodafone, Huawei sign deal for 3G handsets. ZDNet News. February 15, 2006., such as the Vodafone 710), 3G HSDPA cards (Huawei E620 iSuppli Analyses Huawei 3G HSDPA Card. 3G.CO.UK. November 8, 2006. HSDPA Card is being offered by e.g., Vodafone in the United Kingdom and Telia in Sweden) and 3G HSDPA USB modem, Huawei E220 (also sold by Vodafone as Vodafone Mobile Connect USB Modem).Vodafone Mobile Connect super 3G USB modem. The Register. November 21, 2006.
Huawei\'s products are deployed in over 100 countries, including Fiji, Brazil, Paraguay, the United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Singapore, Sweden, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Nepal, Pakistan, Chile, Ireland, Australia and the Philippines.[citation needed] Customers include Oi, Hola Paraguay, China Telecom, China Mobile, China Netcom, China Unicom, BT, Carphone Warehouse (UK), Tiscali (UK), TRE, TeliaSonera, Opal, BSNL (India), Cricket Communications (USA), KPN, O2, Orange, Globe Telecom, Vodafone, Telefonica, Telfort, SingTel, StarHub, Hutchison Telecom, Total Peripherals Group, Ufone (Pakistan), Nepal Telecom (Nepal). Huawei\'s 3G equipment has been commercially deployed in the UAE, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mauritius and the Netherlands.[citation needed] Huwawei\'s 3.5G HSDPA network was commercially launched in Sri Lanka by Mobitel Lanka.
In 2005, Huawei was selected by BT as a preferred supplier of communications equipment for BT’s 21CN network strategy.Huawei Picked for BT\'s 21CN. Light Reading. APRIL 28, 2005. In the same year, Huawei signed a Global Framework Agreement with Vodafone for mobile network infrastructure.Huawei Meets Vodafone\'s Needs. Light Reading. NOVEMBER 22, 2005. In 2006, Motorola signed a deal Motorola exec\'s domain is profitable, if not sexy. Chicago Tribune. November 12, 2006. with Huawei where Motorola distributes and installs Huawei\'s 3G equipment. On November 15 (2006), Huawei signed a deal Huawei wins first major German deal. China Daily. November 16, 2006. worth 30 million euros (US$38.4 million) with German operator Versatel Holding Deutschland GmbH. Huawei will build a fibre-optic communication network based on Internet protocol (IP) for Versatel, Germany\'s third largest fixed-line operator. On February 1 (2007), Forbes reported that France Telecom has selected Huawei to supply UMTS mobile equipment for its third generation network.France Telecom adds China\'s Huawei to pool of UMTS equipment suppliers - report. AFX News Limited. February 1, 2007. Huawei replaced Alcatel/Motorola in Romania, and Nortel in Belgium.
Vodafone awarded Huawei 2007 Global Supplier Award for Outstanding Performance in June, 2007.Vodafone awards Huawei 2007 Global Supplier Award for Outstanding Performance. Huawei Press Releases. June 13, 2007.
In October 29, 2007, Huawei offers a WiMAX Solution http://www.webitpr.com/release_detail.asp?ReleaseID=7004
Huawei\'s global contract sales for 2006 reached USD11 billion (a 34% increase from 2005), 65% of which comes from overseas market. Huawei has now become a leading vendor in the industry and one of the few vendors in the world to provide end-to-end 3G solutions.[citation needed] In 2006, Huawei ranked No.1 in the global NGN market (Infonetics), No.1 in Mobile Softswitch (In-Stat), No. 2 in Optical Network (Ovum-RHK), No.1 in IP DSLAM (Infonetics), No.2 in broadband convergence routers (Gartner), and No.1 in MSAN market (Infonetics).Huawei Financial Highlights. Huawei Corporate Information. 2007.
Huawei Technologies was included in the World\'s Most Respected 200 Companies list compiled by Forbes magazine in May 2007List on Forbes website, one of the six from telecom industry.
Huawei was awarded 2007 InfoVision Awards from the International Engineering Consortium ("IEC") at Broadband World Forum Europe 2007 for its SmartAX MA5600T Series Products and OptiX OSN 6800&3800 solutions. This is the 3rd consecutive years it won InfoVision Award; and it is the only vendor that received two awards in different categories: the SmartAX MA5600T Series Product in the Access Network Technologies and Services category and the OptiX OSN 6800 & 3800 product suite in the Metro Network Technologies and Services category.
Huawei Technologies grew by 45% and hit a fresh record of USD16 billion contract sales in 2007
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