Incorporated in 1988 and headquartered in Shenzhen, China, Huawei Technologies specializes in the R&D;, production and marketing of telecoms equipment, providing customized network solutions in different telecom fields. Huawei is now the largest telecom vendor in China’s telecom market and is quickly becoming a leading player in the global telecom market. Currently Huawei provides telecom products and solutions for over 270 operators worldwide and 22 of the world’s top 50 operators are using Huawei’s products and solutions. Huawei focuses on such areas as WCDMA, CDMA2000, NGN, xDSL and data communications. Huawei has 24,000 employees and sales in 2004 reached 5.58 billion USD.