Huawei is a leading global information and communications technology (ICT) solutions provider. Its products and solutions are deployed in over 170 countries, supporting the communication needs of one-third of the world’s population. Huawei offers the most complete telecom product portfolio in the industry to customers in Europe and worldwide. Huawei’s 190,000 employees are committed to meeting the needs of telecom carriers, enterprises and consumers by providing competitive end-to-end ICT solutions and services. Founded in 1987, Huawei is a private company fully owned by its employees.

In Europe, Huawei has currently over 13000 employees, some 2 400 of these work in highly skilled jobs, dedicated entirely to research, development and innovation cooperating across the continent with more than 100 academic and research partners, investing over 75 Mio € p.a. in partnerships. Our European Research Institute (Huawei ERI) oversees the activities across our network of European R&D facilities: our sites span across Europe (in countries such as Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Sweden and the UK) and cover several ICT related research areas such as wireless, fixed, optical, future networks, standard developemnt and chipset design technologies to name a few.