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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