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Huawei Technologies expects the value of contracts from Asia Pacific to grow by 55% to reach $2 bn in 2006.  This was announced at a press briefing at CommunicAsia 2006 held in Singapore.

According to Liu Jianfeng, VP, Huawei Technologies Asia Pacific, “Huawei is committed to bring in excellent services and technologies to Asia-Pacific market. Asia Pacific is one of the fastest growing regions in the world for us.”  The company is present in 13 countries in Asia Pacific. This excludes China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.

Huawei also announced the launch of datacom products, handsets, and video conferencing solutions. The company launched the carrier-class metro Ethernet switches. These will be called Quidway CX series. It is aimed at greater reliability, security, and easy management of NGN, 3G, broadband access, and triple play. The company claims the Quidway series would assure protection of switching in 50 meters so that services are not interrupted

Seeing a big business in the SMB space in conferencing, Huawei also launched an integrated audio video conferencing solution. The set of solution includes high definition video terminals ViewPoint8066 and ViewPoint8033, Videophone ViewPoint8220, and ViewPoint 8210. This incorporates built in multi point control unit, which is aimed at reducing the operational cost for SMBs. The system, according to the release, will support PSTN/GSM/CDMA dial-in from up to six locations and a conference of up to 12 sites in total when combining video and phone conferences.

To catch up with its aggressive South Korean counterparts like Samsung and LG, Huawei launched seven 3G handsets U528, U526, and (UMTS dual mode) CDMA models C2285, C2205, C2281, C5300, C3300. According to the release, the company has supplied 3G terminals to customers in 70 countries. Huawei also launched what it claims as the world's smallest and fastest HSDPA.

Sudesh Prasad in Singapore
sudeshp@cybermedia.co.in