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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 communications equipment, and providing customized network solutions for telecom carriers in different areas.

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.

Huawei also manufactures 3G/GPRS Mobile Internet Connection cards used by Vodafone to provide their new 3G internet services.

Huawei's 3G (UMTS/HDSPA) data cards are built entirely with off the shelf components with very basic systems integration. The devices are the lowest cost data cards on the market and therefore many mobile data carriers are purchasing them. The cards work well for basic data but are tempermantal when used in Mobile IP environments and do not support SIM based WLAN authentication protocols such as EAP-SIM, EAP-AKA or SSL-SIM.

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) and CANTV Movilnet (Venezuela).

Product deployment

Huawei's products are deployed in over 100 countries, including the United States, Germany, France, United Kingdom, Spain, the Netherlands, 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.

Due to the fact that Huawei's datacards are the lowest cost data cards available to operators in bulk they are becoming very popular. Datacards from Sierra Wireless and Option Wireless are still much preferred by end users but their costs are not attractive to operators. End-users report problems with the Huawei Datacards, E600, E612, E618 and E620. Many stores in The Netherlands report that datacards sold by KPN are seeing a large return rate due to instability. Recent deployments in Taiwan by Emome (Chungwa Telecom) have seen much the same customer reaction.

Many customers worldwide also complain about clear lack of quality in basic essentials of their products, such as poorly manufactured power cables, which are used to reduce total cost.

Its a matter of time before Huawei fixes these issues and it is yet to be seen if they can compete technically with Option Wireless and Sierra Wireless while keeping their costs lower than their competitors.

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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