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Huawei may handle Airtel's 4G rollout in Delhi, Mumbai

You know what? Preconceived ideas and prejudice are never a good thing.

I suggest to you to render your judgement only after you have actually used it.

Peace.
 
Why Chinese telecom companies are still allowed to operate in India? What happened to the blacklisting?

I think the ban were on routers, switches and networking products , I thin Chinese banks offer Airtel huge loans at cheap interest rates.
 
The products you use are not generally an issue. If a company like Motorola or Nokia-Siemens or Ericsson does the rollout - don't you think they would do a better job?
No. In what way do you think they would do a better job?
 
You know what? Preconceived ideas and prejudice are never a good thing.

I suggest to you to render your judgement only after you have actually used it.

Peace.

Thanks - but how did you figure my views are preconceived or prejudiced? I have had the opportunity to use some Chinese products and they fall way short of the mark of products from Europe, Japan and USA - even if they are all manufactured in China.
 
No. In what way do you think they would do a better job?

Let's say you have service level agreements - for delivering a product or service on time and the sum involves billions of $ - in case of a dispute, you are forced to go to court - where do you think there is more chance you getting a fair trial - if your supplier is Ericsson in a Stockholm court or if your supplier is Huawei in a Beijing court?
 
Christ - can't they ask a European or Japanese company to handle the rollouts? Why get substandard firms from China to do this? Cost cutting has its advantages but there is a limit to compromising on quality.

Apparently your carrier is thinking otherwise. Substandard products will never qualify for critical national infrastructures in the US. An example would be those from India.

India will never get away from relying on imports for their developments, such as Huawei. That's your destiny, get use to it.
 
Huawei has done it in Mexico:

Huawei to power Telcel’s 4G expansion into 26 markets in Q1 2013 to reach 65% of Mexico’s population



Telecom Lead America: Telcel, a subsidiary of America Movil (AM), said its LTE services will cover nine cities, with plans to expand to 26 markets until the first quarter of next year to reach 65 percent of the country’s population.

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Aimed at addressing demands for data services, AM has partnered with Huawei to launch LTE network in Mexico.

To roll out Mexico’s first commercial LTE network, AM adopted Huawei’s SingleRAN LTE solution.

AM’s plans for an Heterogenous Network (HetNet) will enhance network spectrum utilization and end-user data transfer speeds. Customers will benefit as they can experience better wireless networks in Latin America.

Customers will also get advanced smartphones such as Huawei’s Ascend P1 smartphone and Huawei’s LTE broadband modem E397 device.

AM’s Telcel has a nearly 70 percent market share of the Mexican mobile market with nearly 70 million subscribers.

Huawei’s SingleRAN LTE technology enables Telce’s LTE network to support smooth evolution toward future-oriented systems. Huawei’s SingleRAN RRU equipment and small cell products will enhance end user data transfer speeds on the newly launched commercial LTE network.

This allows for more convenient access to HD video calls, speedy web browsing, online gaming, and photo sharing while providing the best technical support for high-speed and large-volume machine-to-machine applications like distance education and health care.

Huawei claims that it has secured over 110 commercial LTE/EPC contracts and has launched 51 commercial LTE networks.

editor@telecomlead.com
 
Huawei's partnership with UAE

Etisalat-Huawei partnership to cover 4G network

Updated:2012/11/14 13:09

Etisalat says its strategic partnership with China-based Huawei would enable it to cover 85 per cent of the UAE’s populated areas under the advanced 4G LTE-FDD (fourth generation long-term evolution frequency-division duplexing) network in 2013.

“Etisalat and Huawei’s close cooperation in pioneering the world’s most advanced ICT [information and communication technology] products and services, can deliver faster and more accessible telecom services to our customers across the UAE. There is no doubt that the new generation of communications will have a vital role in enhancing the development process in all communities,” said Jaber Al Janahi, Vice President of Corporate Communications at etisalat.

A group of mediapersons from the UAE accompanied senior executives from etisalat to China to visit Huawei’s various state-of-the-art facilities, countrywide. Huawei annually invests an average of 10 per cent of its revenue into research and development (R&D).

Etisalat was the first in the region to launch the 4G LTE-FDD in 2011 in collaboration with Huawei. The first phase of the project covered around 80 per cent of the populated areas in the country with close to 1,000 stations. Etisalat now plans to increase the number of stations to extend its 4G coverage in the populated areas and strengthen the internal coverage for buildings, malls and airports, in addition to other key buildings.

As for the 3G network, Etisalat currently covers around 99.8 per cent of populated areas with more than 5,500 stations.

“Etisalat will continue to expand its 3G network in conjunction with the second phase of the LTE project,” the telecom operator said.

Huawei, an employee-owned private company, has established end-to-end capabilities across the carrier networks, enterprise and consumer markets by providing competitive solutions and services, which have been deployed in over 150 countries serving more than one-third of the world’s population.

In 2011, Huawei recorded revenues of $32.4 billion (Dh119.16 billion), a year-on-year increase of 11.7 per cent. Huawei provides 45 of the world’s top 50 telecommunications operators with unified platforms, consistent experiences, and adapted solutions. In the Middle East, Huawei has established a strong relationship with key operators such as etisalat.

Huawei aims to become one of the leading mobile phone brands in the world and to be the third-largest smartphone vendor with 15 per cent market share by 2015. Huawei is currently the world’s sixth-biggest maker of mobile phones. In the Middle East, Huawei’s 2011 consumer sales revenue was $175 million, and its 2012 annual sales target is $200 million.

The Middle East is one of the fastest-growing regions worldwide for Huawei with regional contract sales across the Middle East in 2011 totalling $3.22 billion, a 20 per cent increase from the previous year.

Source:zawya
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They're going to be the biggest telecom tech provider in the future. Bank on it!

Huawei SoftCOM: Reshaping the Future of Network Architecture

Updated:2013/3/6 14:21


Technology advancements have created infinite connected possibilities but have also brought critical challenges. Current network infrastructure designs have not kept pace with ever-growing requirements; telecom operators are struggling to keep up with the rapid network upgrades necessary to support their customers’ increasing demand for bandwidth and personalized services and they have been unable to reap appropriate returns on the investments in supporting this demand.

Complexities of industry game rules, where devices are now closely linked to applications and many operator business models still charge users based on online duration and monthly data allowances, have caused the pipe to become marginalized. The demand for bandwidth and increased diversity in personalized end-user needs means that operators need to deconstruct and abstract pipe capabilities, enabling more services and values, and so finding ways to retain and win over subscribers rather than alienate them.

Technological upgrades have become more sophisticated. To adapt to development needs, vendors need to apply the latest technologies in network devices to achieve a competitive price/performance ratio, keep up with the pace of Moore's Law, and continuously upgrade individual hardware elements. However, it is costly to frequently upgrade large numbers of existing network elements. Therefore, operators need to make the relationship between technologies and devices more abstract and set up flexible mappings.

Huawei believes that addressing these challenges should be guided by a desire for simplicity. It believes that telecom operators’ competitiveness can be enhanced by holistically reshaping the way they manage their network and operations and streamlining basic network architectures to discover the functions that are truly essential. Network architecture has become increasingly complex with networks needing to provide more and more functionality, necessitating an evolutionary overhaul of network architecture as we know it. This evolution is a move towards breaking down complex issues, optimizing resource allocation, and, ultimately, simplification of the entire process.

In order to deliver on its belief in simplicity, Huawei has developed the SoftCOM strategy: a holistic approach to the future of network architecture, addressing operators’ business and technology challenges by focusing on simplification. At the core of this approach lies Huawei’s view that the future of network evolution is in the ability to provide operators with a simple approach to overcoming the challenges brought about by the accelerated changes in the industry landscape.

Huawei SoftCOM is a cloud-based systematic future network architecture that leverages the power of SDN and enhances telecom operators’ competitiveness by transforming network, operations and business. The SoftCOM evolution is underpinned by four key elements:

Equipment-Level Cloud-Lization – the decoupling of hardware and software;

Network-Level Cloud-Lization – the decoupling of forwarding and controlling;

IT System Cloud-Lization – transforming traditional IT infrastructure to a cloud-based infrastructure; and

Internetized Operation – transforming telecom-oriented systems to Internet-oriented systems

Equipment-Level Cloud-Lization

By decoupling software from hardware and abstracting functions, all network device functions will no longer be dictated by individual hardware. Instead, network elements share a unified hardware platform, with resources shared flexibly and functions defined by software. A hardware pool will be established, which automatically supports scalability, realizing flexible and efficient deployment.

Network-Level Cloud-Lization

By decoupling control plane from forward plane and abstracting network resources to separate management from usage, network elements will be centrally managed at the upper layer, ensuring optimized network resource allocation, higher efficiency and simpler software upgrade. This creates a smarter architecture that will make network more agile for transformations. Therefore, a network resource pool will be built up with centralized routing for better experience and higher utilization.

IT System Cloud-Lization

Traditional telecom IT infrastructure needs to be moved to a cloud platform so as to achieve huge capacity at a low cost via elastic computing, distributed storage, parallel applications as well as automatic scalability. Through these, the computing pool and storage pool are constructed to optimize the utilization of IT resources.

Internetized Operation

To provide truly user-centric services, operators need to transform the way they traditionally manage their operations to become more Internet-oriented. This transformation will be realized not only through opening network API to third parties for the development of rich applications, but also through transforming traditional IT infrastructure to a cloud-based IT system built up on a distributed web framework that is capable of providing business intelligence from big data analysis. This will provide end-users with online, self-service propositions on demand.

Huawei understands operators’ business needs and can provide them with the most comprehensive and systematic portfolio of ICT solutions that will enable them to optimize returns on their investments. Based on the SoftCOM evolution, Huawei is poised to help operators achieve business success and reshape the ICT industry. Its ‘Dig In, Widen Out’ strategy will enable operators to reduce costs and create innovative business models with open networks.

“Dig In” brings about network optimization, transforming the existing high CapEx and high OpEx model to a substantially lower TCO model through network abstraction, programmability, control simplicity and management automation, enabled by SDN, NFV and cloud computing technologies.

Huawei SoftCOM will facilitate structural TCO reduction. Through equipment-level cloud-lization, network resources can be flexibly shared and utilization maximized. Networks will become much more scalable, network functions can be defined on-demand and time-to-market of services can be shortened. Through network-level cloud-lization, network capabilities are consolidated in an abstract manner, which will enhance network intelligence.

“Widen Out” brings about network monetization, fundamentally transforming today’s fully controlled, closed and rigid business model to one that is open, new services-enabling and agile. This new model will enable operators to establish key differentiators and new value propositions in the new digital eco-system by leveraging the operator’s key strengths and capabilities, achieved by building a converged cloud platform across distributed data centers and wide area network infrastructure.

By transforming operations to become Internetized, an innovation platform connecting various industries is created, which allows networks to become ubiquitous and provide an avenue through which social and business interactions take place. This will accelerate the development of the ICT industry and network monetization will be maximized through much enhanced network services and extended value propositions in the digital eco-system.

SoftCOM, Huawei’s vision of reshaping the future of network architecture will have significant impact on broadband network, operations and business. Huawei’s cloud-based, end-to-end approach will help operators leverage the power of SDN in enhancing competitiveness and transforming the way they manage their network and operations for business success.

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Huawei in Europe


Huawei launches M2M business in Europe

Iain Morris
September 5, 2012

Huawei (Shenzhen, China) has announced the start of a major M2M push in Europe as it aims to become the dominant player in the nascent industry.

China’s largest networks vendor has spent the last few months signing distribution agreements for its embedded modules in Europe’s biggest markets.

It now counts m2m Germany, Simple Solutions (UK), Sagitron (Spain and Portugal), Matrix (Spain), BE Telecom (Belgium and Israel), Netcom (Poland) and Techship (Sweden) among its partners, and says further deals are in the pipeline this year.

The company also has a partnership with smart-grid specialist Landis+Gyr in the UK, where authorities want every household and business to be fitted with a smart meter by 2019.


Analysts are predicting annual growth of between 20% and 30% for the worldwide M2M industry, and expect some 12 billion mobile devices to be connected to the internet by 2020.

Speaking to M2M Zone at the M2M Alliance Conference in Dusseldorf, Georg Steimel, Huawei’s head of M2M solutions, says the company’s distribution partners are already in negotiations with customers and expecting business later this year.

Steimel says the energy sector is the most promising short-term opportunity for M2M vendors because of government initiatives in this area, but he cites market structure as the other critical driver of M2M take-up.

“Smart metering has already been deployed in Italy because ENEL has a monopoly in the Italian market, and so there was just one decision maker,” he says.

“In Germany, we’ve had discussions about standards going on for years as well as lots of local utilities involved in decision-making. If you have many small parties it is much more difficult to have widespread deployment in the short term,” Steimel says.
Huawei hopes it can become as successful in Europe’s M2M markets as it has been in China, where it claims a 40% share of the market for embedded modules.

Although regulation is often perceived to be more demanding in Europe than in China, Steimel says that Huawei has been able to satisfy all requirements.

Huawei says its embedded modules are available in all common form factors, including LCC, LGA, board-to-board and miniPCie.
The company has also launched three new embedded modules for the automotive market. Two work on HSPA+ cellular networks and one uses LTE.
 
Huawei and Latin America


UNE Colombia and Huawei to deploy LTE network in South America

Nov 14,2011

Huawei announced that it will deploy its first LTE commercial network in South
America for UNE Colombia.

UNE is the largest fixed broadband operator in Colombia.

UNE will deploy the network in Bogota and Medellin using Huawei‘s LTE edge
solution. The entire core network will be geared with Huawei equipments.
Furthermore as for now, Huawei will provide terminal devices for UNE, including
the world’s first LTE five-mode USB dongle E392 and other models.

“We are pleased to partner with Huawei for the deployment of Colombia’s
first commercial LTE network for the first stage” said Juan Ignacio
Palacio, VP international business, UNE.

“UNE is committed to providing its customers the best and fastest possible
Mobile Broadband Internet experience. We believe that Huawei’s cutting-edge
SingleRAN LTE solution will enable us to rapidly achieve our objective of
building one of the largest and best next-generation mobile networks in
Colombia,” Palacio added.

“The selection underscores Huawei’s top position in the LTE field and
highlights its leading advantages in the MBB solutions delivery. The
cooperation between UNE and Huawei will accelerate the LTE commercialization
progress in South and Latin America’s MBB market,” said Ying Weimin,
president of GSM&UMTS<E Network, Huawei.

There are 35 commercial LTE networks globally. 18 of them are using Huawei&#8217;s
SingleRAN LTE solution. Huawei ranks No.1 worldwide with over 50 percent market
share, according to GSA&#8217;s LTE Evolution Report released on October 12, 2011.


By Telecomlead.com Team
editor@telecomlead.com
 
Huawei + Brazil

Brazil signs deal with Huawei to develop mobile Internet in 450 MHz band

Posted on 12 July 2012 by Roberta Prescott.

China-based telecom equipment provdier Huawei signed a statement of commitment with Brazil&#8217;s Ministry of Communications (Minicom) focused on the development of new technologies to support broadband services using the 450 MHz spectrum band. The agreement was signed between Brazil&#8217;s Communications Minister Paulo Bernardo and Huawei Brazil&#8217;s Veni Shone.

Under the agreement, Huawei is committed to conducting research in the use of LTE technology across the 450 MHz spectrum band. The Brazilian government has pledged to provide incentives to Huawei, including tax incentives.

The network plans are aimed at providing Internet access to people in rural areas and small towns.

The Brazilian government has for some time looked to use the 450 MHz band to expand broadband access across rural areas. According to Minister Bernardo, there is still a large gap between network access in urban and rural areas.

&#8220;While we&#8217;re getting 50% of municipalities in Brazil covered by Internet broadband, in the rural area it does not reach 10%,&#8221; Bernardo told journalists during a signing ceremony.

Minister Bernardo believes that, with new technology, the number of homes connected to the network could rise to 70% before the end of 2014.

Huawei&#8217;s focus for the project is to provide the technology for companies that won LTE spectrum licenses.
The Chinese ambassador to Brazil, Li Jinzhang, said the agreement is a breakthrough in cooperation between the two countries and stressed that the Chinese government will continue supporting and encouraging Chinese enterprises to invest in Brazil.
 

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