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Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.  is the largest networking and telecommunications equipment supplier in the People’s Republic of China. It is headquartered in Longgang District, Shenzhen, Guangdong.

Bantian, Longgang District Shenzhen 518129, P.R.China

Established in 1988 by Ren Zhengfei, 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. In addition to the R&D centers in Shenzhen, Shanghai, Beijing, Nanjing, Xi’an, Chengdu, and Wuhan in China, Huawei also has R&D centers in Stockholm, Sweden; Dallas and Silicon Valley, U.S.; Bangalore, India; Ferbane in Offaly, Ireland; Moscow, Russia; Jakarta, Indonesia.

Huawei

(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 adjective to mean splendid, magnificent. The character 为 means action or achievement. Huáwei itself variously translates as “achievement”, “magnificent act” or “splendid act”. Such a translation is an etymological curiosity, not to be used generally.

History

Huawei was founded by Ren Zhengfei in 1988, 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.

From 1998 to 2003, Huawei contracted with IBM for management consulting, and underwent significant transformation of its management and product development structure. After 2001, Huawei increased its speed of expanding into overseas 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 3Com in 2007 for $US 882 million.

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.

In May 2008, Huawei joined Optus in developing a mobile innovation centre in Sydney, Australia, aimed at accelerating the adoption of high-speed mobile and wireless broadband.

Products and product deployment

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 other LAN equipment. Huawei manufactures also mobile phones  such as the Vodafone 710 and 716), 3G HSDPA cards (Huawei E620 HSDPA Card is being offered by e.g., Vodafone in the United Kingdom and Telia in Sweden), 3G HSDPA USB modem, Huawei E220. and 3G HSUPA modem stick Huawei E172.

In 2005, Huawei was selected by BT as a preferred supplier of communications equipment for BT’s 21CN network strategy. In the same year, Huawei signed a Global Framework Agreement with Vodafone for mobile network infrastructure. In 2006, Motorola signed a deal with Huawei where Motorola distributes and installs Huawei’s 3G equipment. On November 15 (2006), Huawei signed a deal 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. Huawei replaced Alcatel/Motorola in Romania, and Nortel in Belgium.

Vodafone awarded Huawei 2007 Global Supplier Award for Outstanding Performance in June, 2007.

On October 29, 2007, Huawei announced a WiMAX Solution

Huawei E960 HSDPA supports two working modes of the wireless gateway and USB modem . It includes four LAN interfaces for the RJ 45, WLAN and USB interface multiplex. The power is supplied through the USB from the PC.

Huawei pushes (broadband) Fixed Mobile Convergence (FMC). Leading the company’s FMC initiatives is the new Huawei HG553 VoIP home gateway, currently available through Vodafone. The device combines a standard ADSL2 + Wi-Fi-enabled four port router with a pair of phone sockets for VoIP calling and a dockable USB mobile broadband dongle, giving the user a backup option of 3G data should the fixed-line service fail. Being removable means that the owner can take the mobile broadband service with them when necessary.

Competitive position

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. In Feb 2009 CTS (Gibraltar) Ltd is due to launch a 3G Mobile network. This network is an end-to-end 3G solution provided by Huawei. 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).. By the end of 2008, global contract sales of Huawei Technologies, China’s largest telecoms gear maker, jumped 46 percent to $23.3 billion.. Huawei also forecast sales of more than $30 billion in 2009.

In 2007, Huawei became the 4th largest patent applicant in the world after Matsushita, Philips Electronics and Siemens with 1,365 applications. It also recorded sales(not contract sales) of 12.56 billion US dollars(an increase of 49% from 2006) for the year, which makes it the fifth largest telecommunication company in the world in terms of revenue after Cisco, Ericsson, Alcatel Lucent, and Nokia Siemens.

Huawei Technologies was included in the World’s Most Respected 200 Companies list compiled by Forbes magazine in May 2007, one of the six from telecom industry.

In December 2008, BusinessWeek magazine puts Huawei at number 3 after Apple and Google in their first annual list of ‘The World’s Most Influential Companies’ in collaboration with an advisory board of 14 academics, consultants, and industry leaders worldwide, including Shelly Lazarus, Chairman and CEO of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide and Jim Collins, author of Good to Great

In the end of 2008, Huawei has successfully shipped over one billion licenses for its All-IP based mobile softswitch. This significant milestone was reached only five years after Huawei shipped the industry’s first mobile softswitch and it is the first time any manufacturer has reached this level. Huawei softswitches are speeding the transformation of mobile networks to All-IP in more than 100 countries. Huawei launched its IP-based mobile softswitch solution in 2003 and, in the same year, installed the world’s first 3G mobile softswitch with separate architecture in the United Arab Emirates. In 2004, the company created the world’s largest IP mobile softswitch network in China.

In January 2009, a United Nations agency reported Huawei was the world’s top international patent seeker in 2008, which ended the almost one decade of domination by Netherlands’ Philips Electronics as the first place on the list of applicants for World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patent protection .

Smartphones

Huawei is ready for Android and Symbian opensource operating systems. This company is part of Open Handset Alliance and Symbian Foundation, too. Huawei will ship an Android operator branded smartphones in first half 2009.

Huawei Tops list of Patent Cooperation Treaty applications

[27 January 2009] According to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), Huawei was ranked as the largest applicant under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), with 1,737 applications published in 2008. Overall, the total number of international patent filings under WIPO’s PCT for 2008 represents the highest number of applications received under the PCT in a single year and China improved its ranking by one place, to become the sixth largest user of the PCT, with 6,089 filings.Wipo, January 27, 200

Corporate Information

Huawei is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks, and now serves 36 of the world’s top 50 operators, along with over one billion users worldwide.

The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and growth potential for its customers.
Huawei’s products and solutions encompassing wireless products(LTE/HSPA/WCDMA/EDGE/GPRS/GSM, CDMA2000 1xEV-DO/CDMA2000 1X, TD-SCDMA and WiMAX), core network products ( IMS, Mobile Softswitch, NGN ), network products(FTTx, xDSL, Optical, Routers, LAN Switch), applications and software(IN, mobile data service, BOSS), as well as terminals(UMTS/CDMA). Major products are designed based on Huawei’s ASIC chipset and utilize shared platforms to provide quality and cost-effective products.

At the end of June 2008, Huawei has over 87,502 employees, of whom 43% are dedicated to R&D. Huawei’s global R&D centers are located in Silicon Valley and Dallas in USA, Stockholm in Sweden, Moscow in Russia and Bangalore in India in addition to those in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu in China.

Vision & Mission

Vision

To enrich life through communication.

Mission

To focus on our customers’ market challenges and needs by providing excellent communications network solutions and services in order to consistently create maximum value for customers.

Research & Development

Overview

Not only do customers need products and technology, but more importantly, they need solutions that can bring them success in their business. Huawei has already made the transition from being technology-oriented to being driven by customer requirements, from solely providing products to offering complete end-to-end solutions, allowing the development of our products to be driven by our customers’ success.

R&D investment

We continuously work towards improving our ability to innovate based on our customers’ needs. Huawei has been investing a minimum of 10% of our annual revenue into R&D, with 10% of that investment used for pre-research to stay at the forefront of new technologies and breakthroughs. At present, Huawei has already successfully rolled out products and solutions in areas including FMC, IMS, WiMAX and IPTV.

In addition, we have re-structured the organizational framework of our product line, in anticipation of future network convergence and industry transformation. Huawei provides complete end-to-end solutions in areas including the service and application layer, core layer, bearer layer, access layer, and terminals, thereby offering our customers distinct advantages to face network convergence.

By focusing on key network technologies, Huawei has formed core technology systems for systems architecture, hardware, software and ASIC design. Also, we currently hold leading positions in areas such as mobile softswitch, UMTS, super-long-haul DWDM, MSTP, NGN, MSAN, IP telecom network, IP DSLAM, intelligent network and signaling network. Huawei has also become one of the leading providers in CDMA, 3G terminals, intelligent optical network ASON, core routers and switching. In addition, we have invested heavily in the development of our ASIC chips. At present, we have developed over 100 types of ASIC chips including UMTS baseband and HSDPA chips, optical network chips, router chips, and broadband access chips, greatly improving the system’s capabilities and thus enabling us to offer unique advantages at a lower cost.

We are introducing the world’s best R&D management models into our company and strengthening the support of our broad and shared platforms. Through the Marketing-PMT-IPMT-IRB framework, Huawei changed our product development and planning process, and gradually solved challenges involving the effectiveness of decision-making. Using CBB (a hardware and software sharing module), we established a technology sharing system that comprises various layers such as system design, platform, modules and components. With the experience gained from eight years of CMM implementation, we established a large and sophisticated software engineering management system. Meanwhile, we also introduced the fundamental ideas of CMM into our hardware quality management system. Most of our software development research institutes have already passed CMM level-5 certification.

Huawei also promotes standardized, component-based and platform-specific management in our research and development, and simplified the structure of our systems and organizational framework to prevent the leakage of technology. With an asynchronous development method, we coordinate development progress at various levels, manage the time-to-market of our products and speed up our response time to market demands.

Standards & Patents

Huawei actively participates in 91 international standardization organizations including ITU、3GPP、3GPP2、ETSI、IETF、OMA and IEEE. Meanwhile, Huawei’s representatives have been elected to more than 100 positions in various organizations.

Through our active participation in these groups, Huawei is committed to realizing the vision of network convergence, where communications and networking services are genuinely merged together.

By December 2008, Huawei had filed 35,773 patent applications. We had held 10% of the world’s LTE essential patents, ranking amongst the top three in the world.

Global Operations

After years of hard efforts, Huawei is becoming more and more internationalized. Our products and solutions are deployed in over 100 countries and serve over one billion users worldwide.

In 2008, 75% of our contract sales was from the international market, and we have set up more than 100 branch offices in order to provide quick services to our customers.

Also, we have established 14 R&D centers around the world such as in the Silicon Valley and Dallas of the United States, Stockholm in Sweden, Moscow in Russia and Bangalore in India to ensure global R&D with outstanding people.

In addition, we have 29 training centers worldwide to help our customers and local people to study advanced management, technologies and so on. We firmly believe in localizing our global operations, and make it a point to hire local employees. This not only enhances our understanding of the local market, but also contributes to the local economy by increasing employment, especially in less developed regions.

Partnerships

Huawei believes that cooperating with customers, suppliers and leading players in the industry to face challenges together through a win-win strategy is essential in today’s business world. We strive to build more stable partnerships with our customers and suppliers and reinforce strategic cooperation with international and domestic mainstream operators. Furthermore, we will enhance our position in key international markets, strengthen partnerships with major suppliers, and improve our response speed and service advantages in our supply chain.

In addition, we will further cooperate with our industry peers on many levels to set up a future-oriented, secure, and win-win development framework. Through this, we aim to create greater value for our global customers. In the past few years, we have also initiated multi-level cooperation in several fields including technology, products and marketing in order to face risks and challenges together.

Huawei has formed numerous partnerships with leading companies, and cooperates with them on the foundation of our self-developed technologies. We work closely with leading multinationals such as ADI, Agere, Altera, HP, IBM, Intel, Microsoft, Motorola, Oracle, SUN, TI and  Xilinx to improve the time to market of our products, and to incorporate the latest technologies and best management practices into our company.

We have also set up a joint venture with Siemens which focuses on the research, production, sales and services of TD-SCDMA in order to further advance its development. Jointly with Motorola, we set up a UMTS research center in Shanghai, which is engaged in providing global customers with more powerful UMTS products and solutions and HSPA.

To improve our corporate management, we have been cooperating with world-leading management consulting companies such as IBM, Hay Group, PwC and FhG since 1997, introducing advanced processes like IPD (Integrated Product Development), ISC (Integrated Supply Chain). We also carried out radical reforms in human resource management, financial management, quality control and so on, and have established an IT-based management system by implementing industry-leading practices.

We also join hands with a large number of prestigious companies such as Intel,Texas Instruments, Freescale Semiconductor, Qualcomm, Infineon, Agere Systems, Microsoft, IBM, Sun Microsystems and HP and set up joint laboratories.

Milestones

Year 2008

• Recognized by BusinessWeek as one of the world’s most influential companies
• Ranked No. 3 by Informa in terms of worldwide market share in mobile network equipment
• First large scale commercial deployment of UMTS/HSPA in North America, for TELUS and Bell Canada
• Ranked No. 1 by ABI in mobile broadband devices having shipped over 20 million units
• Ranked as the largest applicant under WIPO’s Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT), with 1,737 applications published in 2008;accounts for 10% of LTE patents worldwide

Year 2007

• Establishes joint venture with Symantec, to develop storage and security appliances
• Establishes joint venture with Global Marine, to provide end-to-end submarine network solutions
• A partner to all the top operators in Europe at the end of 2007
• Won 2007 Global Supplier Award by Vodafone. Was the only network equipment supplier to be awarded this specific accolade
• Unveils its ALL IP FMC solutions strategy designed to leverage distinct benefits for telecom carriers, from TCO savings to reduced energy consumption

Year 2006

• Divests 49 percent stake in H3C for USD880 million
• Establishes Shanghai-based joint R&D Center with Motorola to develop UMTS technologies
• Introduced new visual identity (VI). The new VI reflects our principles of customer-focus, innovation, steady and sustainable growth, and harmony.

Year 2005

• International contract orders exceed domestic sales for the first time
• Selects as a preferred telecoms equipment supplier and signs Global Framework Agreement with Vodafone,
• Selects as a preferred 21Century Network (21CN) supplier by British Telecom (BT) to provide multi-service network access (MSAN) components and optical transmission equipment

Year 2004

• Establishes joint venture with Siemens to develop TD-SCDMA solutions
• Achieves first significant contract win in Europe valued at over USD25 million with Dutch operator, Telfort

Year 2003

Establishes joint venture with 3Com focusing on enterprise data networking solutions

Year 2002

International market sales reaches USD552 million

Year 2001

• Divests non-core subsidiary Avansys to Emerson for USD750 million
• Establishes four R&D centers in the United States
• Joins International Telecommunications Union (ITU)

Year 2000

• Establishes R&D center in Stockholm, Sweden
• USD100 million generates from international markets

Year 1999

Establishes R&D centre in Bangalore, India, which achieves CMM level-4 accreditation in Year 2001 and CMM level-5 accreditation in Year 2003

Year 1997

• Launches wireless GSM-based solutions
• Expands into metropolitan areas of China in Year 1998

Year 1995

Generates sales of RMB1.5 billion in Year 1995, mainly derived from rural markets in China

Year 1992

Initiates R&D and launches rural digital switching solution

Year 1990

Embarks on independent research and commercialization of PBX technologies targeting hotels and small enterprises

Year 1988

Establishes in Shenzhen with as sales agent for Hong Kong company producing Public Branch Exchange (PBX) switches

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