Huawei to double its Australian workforce

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At least 200 new ICT jobs will be created by Huawei in Victoria, the state’s Premier John Brumby and Huawei global CEO Ren Zhengfei announced at the Shanghai World Expo at the Saturday launch of what has been dubbed ‘Victoria Week’.

“Huawei’s expanded operations in Melbourne will build on Victoria’s world-class ICT research and development capabilities, which include the Australian Synchrotron, the National ICT Australia Victoria Research Laboratory and the new Centre for Energy-Efficient Telecommunications.” Brumby said in a statement.

The China-based telecommunications manufacture and networking product provider already has a team of 200 employees based at offices at Sydney and Melbourne, where it had only a meagre staff of 20 four years ago.

“We have grown from a team of 20 to over 200 staff in just four years, and now we will significantly expand our Victorian operations by creating 200 new jobs,” said Huawei Australia CEO Guo Fulin.

Huawei will assist in the research and development of next generation broadband in Victoria and is in talks to provide support to the National Broadband Network rollout. “Huawei is also in discussions regarding further strategic investments in Victoria to support the rollout of the National Broadband Network (NBN),” Guo said.

A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed with the Melbourne-based Institute of Broadband Enabled Society (IBES) in January this year, which will see Huawei provide the facility with Ethernet switches, GPON access network hardware for fibre-to-the-premise (FTTP) roll-outs, Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM) transmission equipment and Huawei’s universal network management system (NMS).

“As part of its MoU, Huawei has provided a range of equipment allowing IBES to construct an FTTP testing facility to trial future broadband application,” Brumby said.

“This testing facility further demonstrates Victoria’s position as a leading global location for high-end ICT research, especially in the field of telecommunications. No other city in Australia has the telecommunications capability and skilled workforce to take full advantage of the NBN when it is rolled out.”

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  1. Actually I have plenty of time for Huawei. Their 3g modems work well and have impoved in style and utility conciderably over a short time.

    And they provide ways for Linux to use them (Ubuntu uses my Vodafone 3g out of the box!)

    • I’ve never had a problem with Huawei — they seem to be quite a credible company to me. And certainly more Australians are using whitelabelled 3G modems from Huawei than they realise. Good to seem investing in Australia this way — not all international companies operating here do.

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