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Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. () in Shenzhen , Guangdong , People's Republic Of China is one of the world’s leading networking and telecommunications equipment suppliers. 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 31 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; Moscow, Russia. NAME () officially Translates in English to Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd.. 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. The character 华 also has strong connections to the country of China. 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 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 . 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. 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 3Com in 2007 for 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 the Chinese city of Chengdu. Huawei, Symantec form joint venture . ZDNet Australia. May 22, 2007. PRODUCTS AND PRODUCT DEPLOYMENT |
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