Huawei .. the success story of the beginning of PBX phone

Huawei .. the success story of the beginning of  PBX phone

During the eighties of the last century, the Chinese government has paid its efforts towards a multi-faceted strategy for the development of telecommunications infrastructure in the country, and was one of the core communications network elements is the telephone exchanges keys, and here was the beginning of Huawei, which is today the largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment in the world.

In the late eighties several Chinese research groups applied for the purchase and development of exchanges phone technology, and it is usually through joint ventures with foreign companies, in that time it was soon all communications technologies in China are imported from abroad.

This pay former engineer in the People's Liberation Army rang Zchngfe to establish a local Chinese telecommunications company capable of producing such switches without relying on joint ventures for technology transfer from foreign companies, so brand: Huawei in 1987 in the city of Shenzhen.

According to Huawei, the registered capital at the time of its founding was no more than 3.5 thousand dollars, and in the early years was its business model is focused only on the sale of exchanges phones especially imported from Hong Kong, but the company boosted its investment in research and development of manufacturing technology for, and by the year 1990, has about 55 employees in the areas of research and development, and began manufacturing its products from own switches targeted hotels and small businesses.

Perhaps one of the articular points on Huawei was the year 1996 when the Chinese government has adopted a strict policy towards supporting the local telecom equipment manufacturers and restrict the use of foreign competing products, this has made the Chinese company in the eyes of the government and military hero, pushed for the establishment of a number of other offices and research and development.

In the period from 1998 to 2003, Huawei signed a contract with the American company "IBM" Management Consulting conducted a substantial modifications to the management and restructuring of product development, and accelerated the pace of its expansion into international markets and achieved global sales of over one hundred million dollars and established the first center for research and development outside of China, and was in the Swedish city of Stockholm.

In 2010, Huawei's name appeared for the first time in the list of the richest five hundred company, which publishes an annual "Fortune" magazine, the US, after the arrival of its annual sales to $ 21.8 billion and net profit to 2.67 billion dollars.

Huawei is currently considered one of the most successful manufacturers of smart phones (Getty)

Continuous success

Currently, Huawei is the largest manufacturer of telecommunications equipment in the world, and the third largest supplier of smart phones, and owner of a huge number of offices of research and development, the owner of tens of thousands of patents, even the date of December 31 / December 2013 filed Huawei more than 44 thousand patents in China and about 19 request A request outside China, and about 15 thousand applications under the Patent Cooperation Treaty, received about 37 thousand asked to approve.

As for the company since 2010, the largest share in respect of the quality standard patented technology LTE / fourth generation of advanced networks (LTE / LTE-A), and, in particular, has been approved 466 of the company's proposals concerning the technology as an essential criteria, enabling it to occupy the first position and capture nearly 25% of the proposals, which won approval in the world.

And spread products and solutions Huawei in more than 170 countries around the world, and is a research and development a key pillar in support of commercial projects, which employs more than seventy thousand employees in this area, representing 45% of the total number of employees around the world.

In 2013, the company has invested US $ 5.4 billion-that 14% of the total revenues  in research and development programs

Huawei is one of the first corporate actors in the field of research and development devoted to the future of the fifth-generation networks, because of their investments in this area more than six hundred million dollars until 2018, the end of 2013 the company has joined the more than 170 specialized international institutions, the development of standards and standards of technology communications and Information Technology sector.

The company established its headquarters in the Middle East for more than ten years in Bahrain, currently employs about four thousand people, more than 60% of whom were hired locally by the company that are spread in ten countries across the Middle East offices.

Source: Al Jazeera