Tag: Huawei

Europe should adopt joint 5G approach

Posted on November 27, 2019 by - News

The chancellor of Germany today called for European countries to adopt a common front on the future of 5G.

Reuters reports that Angela Merkel told German politicians that individual countries taking their own stance on relationships with China could lead to disaster, not for China but for Europe.

Her message obviously refers to Chinese company Huawei, blacklisted by the USA because of concerns its 5G equipment could pose a security threat.

America has so far failed to provide evidence for this.

The US administration has urged its allies to avoid using Huawei kit, but European countries appear to be reluctant to follow suit.

Huawei woos Euro partners

Posted on November 5, 2019 by - Events, News

Yan Lida, president of enterprise business group, Huawei, started its Eco-Connect Europe’s second day here, in Paris, today.

He opened by saying the US Department of Commerce has put Huawei on a blacklist and that “shocked the whole world”, but nevertheless in the first three quarters Huawei managed to grow its business by 24 percent.

Huawei has master plan but, beware the tiger!

Posted on September 25, 2019 by - News

Opinion Chinese multinational Huawei has revealed its plans to use its entire product reach to dominate the marketplace from mobile phones up through the desktop to the server level. Oh, and smart everything too, like motor cars and robots.

Last week, in Shanghai, your correspondent attended the Advanced Intelligence conference and attended a number of keynotes. You can find some of my coverage at Fudzilla.com.

It was pretty impressive stuff, and the keynotes spelled out the future.

Huawei’s 5G roll out well advanced

Posted on September 23, 2019 by - News

Chinese tech company Huawei said it was on track to roll out 5G in line with its plans during 2019.

Executives in Shenzhen disclosed details to ChannelEye of the systems and said engineers on the firm has invested billions of dollars in 5G over the last 10 years and held over 20 percent of 5G patents.

10,000 engineers at Huawei have worked on 5G research and development.

So far, Huawei has signed 50 contracts to support 5G, with 28 of those contracts in Europe.

Huawei challenges distribution models

Posted on September 20, 2019 by - News

The chairman of Huawei implied today that the traditional ways of distribution are a thing of the past.

Guo Ping, the rotating chairman of Huawei told ChannelEye that there is a parable in China about an “old man moving a mountain”. Here, Huawei is the old man who despite blockages eventually win the way.

He said that distributors and the dealer network in the UK could perhaps consider a multisource strategy.

Huawei shows partners towards campus networks

Posted on July 12, 2019 by - News

The American government’s favourite telco, Huawei, has been telling its British partners how they can make a pound or two flogging its  campus network switches.

Huawei thinks 5G and the demands of digital transformation will drive spending on campus networks and create opportunities for channel partners.

It launched its CloudEngine S-series of campus networking products, with the products being designed to support Wi-Fi 6 for customers moving towards a wireless environment.

Zhao Zhipeng, President of the Campus Network Domain, Huawei’s Data Communication Product Line said campus networks are the basis for constructing future-proof digital platforms for enterprises, and they are shifting their focus from data connectivity to service connectivity.

UK economy benefits from Huawei

Posted on May 15, 2019 by - News

Huawei’s channel has been told how much of a  contribution that the firm makes to the UK economy.

The firm has now shared some numbers for those wondering just what it does for the UK economy pointing out that it stimulated a £1.7bn contribution to GDP last year and its activities support 26,000 British jobs. It also paid £470 million in tax in 2018.

A lot of those jobs and money are being generated in the channel and the theme of the vendor’s partner conference was to focus on generating more growth in the future.

Huawei to invest £3 billion in the UK

Posted on February 22, 2019 by - News

Huawei is looking at shifting all the cash it is spending in the US to the UK.

The announcement follows the National Cyber Security Centre saying the vendor will not be treated as harshly as it was in the US.

The NCSC said it it believed it could mitigate any security concerns related to China, although the final decision as to whether Huawei will be allowed to work on the UK’s 5G network will be made by the government.

Chinese smartphones conquering Europe

Posted on February 19, 2019 by - News

Despite the US crackdown, Chinese devices are doing really well in Europe, according to Canalys beancounters.

According to Canalys, preventing the likes of Huawei and Xiaomi from operating in the States means they are investing in Europe to make up for their lost US business and have experienced significant sales gains.

Although Samsung still ranks number one in the continent and Apple remains a number two, Huawei’s market share now stands at 23.6 percent, compared to a market share of 14.8 percent last year.  Xiaomi’s grew from 3.6 to  six percent, the fourth position.

Huawei CEO said he would shut the company before spying

Posted on January 21, 2019 by - News

Huawei’s CEO, Ren Zhengfei, bluntly told the press that he would shut his company rather than hand over data to the Chinese government.

For those who came in late, the US has been telling anyone who listens that Huawei is using its network equipment to spy on people.  No evidence has ever been supplied, but that has not stopped Huawei losing lucrative government contracts.

Dell rulez servers

Posted on December 14, 2018 by - News

Tin box shifter Michael Dell took the number one position in the worldwide vendor server market for the third quarter of 2018, according to beancounters at IDC.

It had 17.5 percent of market share, followed by HPE at 16.3 percent. HPE had held top position for the same period in 2017.

Overall revenue in the global server market increased 37.7 percent year-on-year to $23.4 billion in the third quarter, marking its highest total revenue in a single quarter.

Tablet sales come back from the dead

Posted on December 10, 2018 by - News

While most of us have written off tablets as a marketing fad which went no-where, it appears that they are going to end up in someone’s Christmas stocking, where they will be as useful as a bright green jumper with Santa on the front.

Figures from Context indicated that across Western Europe volume sales of tablets were up by 21 percent in October year-on-year challenging those that have argued the form factor is out of

Network switch and routers see huge growth

Posted on December 7, 2018 by - News

Beancounters at Synergy Research have been adding up some numbers and concluded that the networking switch and router market is growing like crazy.

The sector saw its most significant ever quarterly sales in the third quarter, with revenue passing the $11 billion and has been growing at roughly one per cent annually, with Cisco continuing to dominate.

The analyst claims that the networking giant has 53 percent of the