Huawei Tech expanding B`lore centre

Huawei Tech expanding B`lore centre
The Hindu Business Line

SHENZEN (China): Chinese telecom equipment and software major, Huawei Technologies is expanding its Bangalore centre with a new R&D campus investing $100 million in the next three years, a top company official said.

"We are planning to set up our own campus in Bangalore for which we have acquired about 25 acres of land. We propose to invest $100 million in the campus which would have a capacity of 2,000 people," Huawei Technologies vice-president, (strategy and mark eting, applications and software), Mr James Yuan said.

The construction work would start early next year and the campus would be ready by 2008, he said. The new centre would focus on application software, intelligent network products, some part of next generation networks & 3G, ring back tones among the major tasks, Mr Yuan said.