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Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. (Chinese: 华为技术有限公司; pinyin: Huáwei Jíshu Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) is a telecommunication equipment manufacturer based in Shenzhen, Guangdong, People's Republic of China.

Established in 1988 by former People's Liberation Army officer Ren Zhengfei, Huawei Technologies is a private high-tech enterprise which specializes in research and development (R&D), production and marketing of low cost communications equipment, and providing customized network solutions for telecom carriers in different areas.

Name

(Chinese: 华为技术有限公司; pinyin: Huáwei Jíshu Yǒuxiàn Gōngsī) officially translates in English to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.. Huáwei itself variously translates as “achievement” or “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. The character 华 also has strong connections to the country of China itself, as in 中华 pinyin:Zhōnghuá.

History

Huawei was founded by Ren Zhengfei in 1988, as a small distributor of imported PBX products. 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 to have such a history for their adoption.

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.

After 2001, Huawei increased its speed of expanding into oversea market. By 2004, it's overseas sales had surpassed that of the domestic market. Huawei has a joint venture with 3Com for router products, and one with Siemens for developing TD-SCDMA products.

Products

Huawei provides fixed network, mobile network, data communications, optical network, software & services and terminals --- 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.

In Sep 2006, Huawei's HSDPA datacard was chosen by KPN Group (the Netherlands) "after a month of strict testing". Willem van Oppen, CPO at the KPN Group, said: "We chose to work with Huawei due to the organsations quick response, innovation and ability to customize its solutions. With Huawei’s support we believe we will maintain our leading position in a very competitive market and look forward to a splendid future together". For more info, see "KPN Picks Huawei HSDPA Card" in the reference.

Huawei 3G PC card is the best selling PC card in Telia (Sweden) Stores in August 2006. "The statistics are based on sales in 76 Telia retail stores in Sweden. Telia has the largest retail chain in Sweden for telecom products and is one of the biggest resellers of mobile phones in the country." For more info, see "Top Ten Phone Sales in Telia Stores in August 2006" in the reference part.

Huawei makes also USB 3G datacard for Vodafone ( Vodafone Mobile Connect USB Modem) and Vodafone's first Vodafone-only branded 3G consumer handset, the Vodafone 710. Fore more info, see "Huawei: 'Who are We?' If You're In Comms, You'll Be Finding Out" and "Vodafone launches new Vodafone-only branded 3G handset" in the reference.

Huawei is making big inroad into the high-end markets. Huawei was selected by BT as part of its 21st Century Network (21CN), and Marconi was not. This leads to the demise of Marconi. Marconi was eventually purchased by Sweden's Ericsson. For more info, see "Huawei: 'Who are We?' If You're In Comms, You'll Be Finding Out" in the reference.

Customers

China Telecom, China Mobile, China Netcom, China Unicom, Chungwa, BT, BSNL (India), Cricket Communications (USA), KPN, Vodafone, NEUF, Casablanca Czech republic, AIS, Telefonica, Telfort, Telkom Kenya, SingTel, Hutchison Telecom, PCCW, Etisalat (UAE), Telemar (Brazil) Rostelecom (Russia), UFONE (Pakistan) , Magyar Telekom (Hungary) , Telmex (Chile) , Entel (Chile) , GTD (Chile) , Telefonica (Chile), CANTV Movilnet (Venezuela),TM(Malaysia), OT (Egypt) and TalkTalk (Britain)

Product deployment

Huawei's products are deployed in over 100 countries, including the United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, Italy, Czech republic, Russia, Brazil, Thailand, Singapore, Egypt, Nigeria,Venezuela,Colombia and Chile.

Huawei UMTS has been commercially deployed in UAE, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Mauritius and the Netherlands.

Competitive position

Huawei's contracted sales in 2005 reached 8.2 billion USD, an increase of 47% year on year, among which 60% of sales came from international sales.

Huawei has now become a leading vendor in the industry. As far as market share is concerned, Huawei is currently No.1 [citation needed] in digital switches and next generation network (Dittberner), No. 2 in ADSL broadband (number 1 in IP DSLAMs)[citation needed] and No.2 in optical network (RHK)[citation needed]. Huawei has also become one of the few vendors in the world to provide end-to-end 3G solutions.

World-wide network

Among Huawei's 44,000 employees, 10,000 are outside China. According to the company, 48% of them are engaged in R&D.

Alliances

Huawei has been cooperating with Texas Instruments, Motorola, Microsoft, Intel, Qualcomm, Sun Microsystems ,Vodafone, and others.

Cisco Lawsuit

In 2003, Cisco filed a lawsuit against Huawei claiming Huawei infringed Cisco's intellectual property to develop a line-up of routers and switches. Huawei immediately stopped selling the relevant products in the US market and then agreed to modify its command line interface, user manuals, help screens and portions of its source codes in some of its products. As a result, Cisco dropped the lawsuit. Both sides paid their own court fees. Cisco CEO John Chambers later commented that Huawei was a company that deserves respect.

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