Huawei Technologies Expands Indian Development
Huawei Technologies, one of China's leading systems integration
and router manufacturers, stands to benefit significantly
from improved China-Indian ties following the visit of
the Indian prime minister to China, and simplified visa
application processing.
The company has had an office in Bangalore, India since
1998, and employs 500 Indian engineers from its headquarters
in Shenzhen, China, across the border from Hong Kong,
and in Nanjing and Beijing. Currently, Bangalore employs
550 Indians and 100 Chinese engineers. The company has
already spent US$60 million, but it now plans to raise
its investment to $100 million. This will bring its head
count to 2,000 persons by 2005.
Up until the recent trip by Indian PM Vajpayee, the Indian
government had placed visa restrictions on Chinese engineers
visiting and working in India. During that trip,
Mr. Vajpayee said that India and China should partner
together on technology, with China playing a lead role
in hardware, and India leveraging off its experience in
software development.
Huawei Technologies has partnered in the US wit 3Com.
Up until recently, it had its own line of routers, which
were significantly cheaper than Cisco products. Recently,
t has been fighting a court battle with Cisco, which has
accused the company of stealing some of its source code,
which is used by its line of Internet routers. Since then,
Huawei has claimed that it has cleaned up its code and
removed any contested code. The litigation is still pending
in US courts.
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