Just like the oak seeds that flourish into trees with the nurture of quality soil, the rapid progression of Huawei Technologies is due to its customers providing the very fertile soil

Committed to provide leading edge solutions to meet customers' requirements, Huawei's UMTS/HSPA, GSM, CDMA and WiMAX mobile solutions are now serving 200 million subscribers in more than 80 countries, making it one of the top 3 global mobile equipment vendors.

Huawei has established strategic partnerships with the top 50 global mobile operators including Vodafone, Telefónica, France Telecom, KPN, Etisalat, China Mobile and China Unicom.

By focusing on meeting customers challenges, promoting networks' quality and reducing the construction and maintenance costs with innovative solutions, Huawei has been widely recognized and accepted by mobile operators all over the world.

Vodafone Spain: Enhancing competitiveness

Vodafone Spain is one of the most important and strongest operating companies within the Group. In August 2006, Vodafone chose Huawei to deliver and install the radio access part of its UMTS/HSPA network in Spain. Under the contract, Huawei will provide more than one thousand UMTS/HSPA new generation Node Bs for certain key cities including Madrid in Spain.

Vodafone and Huawei have conducted trial and field tests of UMTS RAN under different scenarios since September 2003. Huawei is one year ahead of the industry in roll out the UMTS/HSPA new generation Node B with all essential technologies. The digital power amplifier efficiency of the solution reaches 33% and achieves a 32% of saving in power consumption. The innovative distributed Node B supports easy installation and facilitates the network deployment. Other advantages include the IUB IP transmission solution, which greatly reduces the opex of HSPA network, and multi-carrier technology enables convenient expansion of the Node Bs. Furthermore, the Node B solution supports full performance HSDPA facilitating the network evolution. With Huawei's innovative and cutting-edge UMTS/HSPA solution, Spain Vodafone can save up to 30% of total cost of ownership within five years.

Impressive performance

Vodafone was deeply impressed by the stability of Huawei's UMTS/HSPA equipment. During a mobility test on high-speed railway, the voice call success rate measured was 61% along the coverage scope. Huawei constructed the UMTS coverage in the same area within one month, and when the express traveled at the speed of 250 kilometers per hour, such services as voice, video phone, and data services remained stable, with the voice call success rate reached 98.5%.

"Huawei's innovative Node B solution fully addresses our requirements for deploying a world-class 3G broadband (HSDPA) network. It also enables us to significantly reduce our operating costs, maximize the benefits offered to customers and improve our competitive position in the marketplace," said Helmut Hoffmann, Director of Global Networks.

eMobile of Japan: First IP-based HSDPA network

Japan, the most advanced country in the world in terms of 3G applications, has a substantial 3G subscriber base of over 50 million, representing about 50% of the global UMTS subscriber base. In order to deal with future competition, eMobile impose high standards on equipment selection, as well as network quality and construction.

On 19 July 2006, eMobile announced that Huawei was selected as a key 3G equipment supplier for the construction of its UMTS/HSDPA network. Under the framework agreement signed with eMobile, Huawei will deploy Japan's first All IP-based HSDPA network, initially starting in large metropolitan areas such as Sendai and Sapporo.

Reusing existing resources

Huawei's HSDPA solution supports All IP transmission and allows eMobile to construct the network based on the dedicated IP line of eAccess, making full use of eAccess' rich IP transmission resources. According to eMobile's technical department, the adoption of IP transmission to bear HSDPA service not only saves transmission resources, but also reuses eAccess' IP backbone, reducing the construction and maintenance cost of network to a large extent. Huawei's new generation UMTS Node B supports multiple IUB IP transmission solutions based on different network technologies, including TDM, MSTP, as well as data network- and TDM network- based Iub IP transmission, meeting different requirements in RAN networking.

The conventional macro base stations are large in size, so the requirement for site acquisition is really high. And since crane is a must in the installation, the cost increases. Huawei's innovative distributed Node B is small in size and light in weight that one person can install it easily, thus the 3G network deployment period is shortened. Moreover, the Base Band Unit (BBU) of the distributed Node B which is 1U in height and 19 inches in width can share cabinet with other equipment, facilitating the site acquisition.

Dr. Sachio Semmoto, Founder, Chairman and CEO of eMobile commented that: "Huawei is an energetic company full of innovative spirit which is customer-driven. With Huawei, we are confident of having selected the right partner who can help us to lead the market in product innovation, customer service and maximizing value for customers."

Ufone of Pakistan: Opting for EnerG GSM solution

Ufone is one of the leading GSM operators in Pakistan and it has set three criteria in the selection of suppliers. Firstly the supplier must deploy a network rapidly in order to meet Pakistan's fast growing mobile subscriber base. Secondly the network deployed must be able to evolve to 3G smoothly. Thirdly is Ufone is not only purely looking for suppliers, but also long-term strategic partners. After strict evaluations, Ufone finally awarded the contract of 550 million US dollars to Huawei. Under the contract, Huawei will provide its future-oriented EnerG GSM solution to expand Ufone's network to cover over 1,500 cities and towns and all major highways in the country.

In Ufone's entire network, a large number of GSM dual density BTSs were introduced. Huawei specially introduces 3G technologies to design GSM BTS and the series dual density BTSs support a transmitting power of 60 W and static receiving sensitiveness of -112.5dB, as well as cutting edge radio technologies including transmitting diversity, PBT, 4-way receiving diversity, ICC, AMR to reduce the number of sites and improve the coverage rate.

Huawei's IP-based softswitch networking has a strong ability in disaster recovery and greatly reduces the network construction and maintenance cost. Huawei's mobile softswitch supports both GSM and 3G networks, and it is highly suitable for large-scale capacity expansion and the fast deployment of new services.

Ufone President Babar Khan said: "The previous network roll-out was also the single largest plan in the history of Pakistan and this time again we are keeping the precedence. Pakistan is a high-growth market for mobile operators. Huawei's EnerG GSM solution will further enhance our services offering to Ufone subscribers."

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"Huawei's innovative Node B solution fully addresses our requirements for deploying a world-class 3G broadband (HSDPA) network. It also enables us to significantly reduce our operating costs, maximize the benefits offered to customers and improve our competitive position in the marketplace."
– Helmut Hoffmann, Director of Global Networks