The successful upgrade realises 32*100G wavelengths on the longest optically amplified single fibre span stretching 11500 km from South Africa to Portugal
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We join forces with our partners in Europe to translate new ideas into the technologies of tomorrow, delivering innovation to the EU market and making local expertise available to the world.
Huawei places a strategic focus on the Internet of Things, cloud and 5G technology to help Europe reap the benefits of the digital revolution. Our European Research Institute (ERI), based in Leuven, Belgium, oversees these activities across our network of European R&D facilities.
1 900 Huawei R&D staff in Europe
Member of 360+ standards organisations, industry alliances & open source communities
240 technical cooperation projects
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31 January 2019
Market needs certainty to attract investment for large-scale 5G infrastructure
28 January 2019
Smart Cities will make information more accessible and useful, improve service levels, and create a vibrant standards-based industrial ecosystem, the company says
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6 August 2014
Huawei is at the forefront of European 5G initiatives.
28 April 2014
Huawei is at the forefront of initiatives to drive 5G technologies forward.
29 January 2014
5G wireless networks will support 1000-fold gains in capacity, connections for at least 100 billion devices, and a 10 Gb/s individual user experience capable of extremely low latency and response times. Deployment of these networks will emerge between 2020 and 2030.
Breakthroughs in...
1 February 2013
Huawei is one of the world’s largest and most innovative firms in the information and communications technology (ICT) sector. Our technology is used by 45 of the globe’s top 50 telecoms operators and our smartphones are the third most popular worldwide....
28 February 2012
In this White Paper, Huawei describes the connected world; a technology vision for the next decade where mobile digital technologies have the potential to empower everyone regardless of who they are or wherever they may be located.
In a world increasingly characterized by migration and...
1 September 2011
Spectral resources are not inexhaustible, a fact that is becoming increasingly obvious as demand for them keeps growing. This is requiring operators to conduct proper planning for and use these resources efficiently.