Huawei Technologies announced on Thursday that its India Research& Development (R&D) centre located at Bangalore has completed 10 years of existence.

The centre initially began its operations with the development of Softswitch and Gigabit Switching Router in 2000. Subsequently the centre was engaged in development of solutions related to Next Generation Networks, Intelligent Networks, Data Communication, Network Management, Telecom Middleware, Optical Network and Mobile Handset Software for telecom carriers across the world.

The solutions developed at the centre have been delivered to clients such as Vodafone, T-Mobile, China Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, KPN, and Megafon.

Addressing the staff at the company’s function to commemorate its 10th anniversary in Bangalore recently, Mr. Xu Zhijun, President of global R&D, Huawei commented, “Ten years back, we established this R&D center in the hope that the deliverables and components developed here could support Huawei’s globalization efforts. Our dream has been realized as all the operating systems (platforms) in all the products for almost all of Huawei’s network equipments are developed here in the Indian R&D center.  During the 10 years of its operations, Huawei India R&D center has demonstrated its unique value to the parent company as a pioneer in CMM practices, software engineering and agile methodology”.

Mr. Justin Chen, Chief Operating Officer, Huawei India R&D center while congratulating the staff, stated, “Huawei India R&D center plays a very critical role in the whole of Huawei R&D through significant contributions to the product lines in terms of delivery and market support, thus playing a vital role in Huawei’s globalization efforts. This has been possible only through our staffs’ continued dedication and excellent contributions. Going forward, the next decade will bring more challenges as well as opportunities to us as we strengthen our service/platform/product delivery system to meet our customer requirements consistently with very high quality and quicker response”.

Huawei says that 98% of the employees at the Indian R&D centre are Indians.