Huawei opens new facility in Bangalore

By siliconindia   |   Thursday, 18 September 2008, 22:58 IST
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Bangalore: The telecom provider Huawei has opened a new facility in Bangalore to develop telecom platforms, OSS and data analysis solutions, reducing delivery time for the company. The new facility will house over 450 engineers to develop telecom server platforms, network management platforms, data analysis solutions and OSS common management services. The new development practices will help Huawei to reduce delivery time to customers from around nine months in a typical development scenario to around three months. "This expansion and adoption of the latest development practices such as agile development, feature driven development and continuous integration methods will enable us to deliver our platforms and solutions to our customers faster," says Veer Kamesh, Vice President and Head of Network Business Line at Huawei. The platforms developed by Huawei Technologies India are used across all the product lines of Huawei like core networks, application & software, datacom, wireless networks, and optical networks, and deployed by global telecom operators including BT, Vodafone, China Mobile, China Unicom, EMOBILE (Japan), KPN, Orange, Telemar, Telefonica, Neuf, France Telecom, SingTel, CANTV and Versatel China based Huawei, has over 87,000 employees, of whom 42 percent are dedicated to R&D. Huawei's global R&D centers are located in Bangalore in India, Silicon Valley and Dallas in USA, Stockholm in Sweden and Moscow in Russia in addition to those in Beijing, Shanghai, Nanjing, Shenzhen, Hangzhou and Chengdu in China.