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Huawei India focuses on hi-tech optical solutions
[BANGALORE -8 August 2005] Huawei Technologies has committed investment of USD 100 million in india R&D centre.It is developing the core platform for the third generation mobile switches and optical network products.
The Bangalore R&D centre, employing 700 high end software professionals, has built the core platform for the intelligent network and the next generation telecom switches for the Chinese firm's global customers.
"Our Indian professionals are working on the next generation products in 3G mobile and optical network and their software becomes the core platform," Huawei Technologies India Chief Operating Officer James Yuan said.
Huawei, which has invested USD 80 million since setting up its India R&D centre in 1999 here, home to telecom professionals, last year. It is finalising plans to build a new campus over 40 acres of land to house 2,000 professionals, he said.
"We have become aggressive on campus hiring and are looking at freshers who can be trained in the telecom domain," James said, adding, the firm intends to ramp up its workforce to 2,000 by 2006.
The Intelligent network solution (IN), developed here has been deployed in over 30 countries including Brazil, where the system is put in use for a "soccer lottery" that efficiently handles 1,500 calls per second.
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