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Siemens Partners Huawei-3Com

India's Siemens Ltd. has entered into a marketing partnership with Huawei-3Com to offer voice, data and video networking services to Indian companies. The combined Siemens-Huawei-3Com products and solutions are intended to accelerate the deployment of high performance networks, which are now essential infrastructure for all enterprises in India.

The alliance would help the Indian unit of Germany's Siemens AG increase its share in India's 10-billion-rupee convergent communication networks market from the present 24 percent, Executive Vice President Peter Gartenberg said.

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"In India, there is a huge dta traffic and high quality voice and video," he told reporters. "This is the segment that we are looking at tapping."
Competitors in the segment include Cisco Systems, Nortel Networks Corp and D-Link India Ltd.
Huawei-3Com is a joint venture between U.S.-based communication equipment company 3Com Corp. and China's leading telecoms gear maker Huawei Technologies.

The venture's Indian unit Huawei-3Com India Pvt. Ltd, which would represent its parent in the alliance, aimed to have annual revenue of USD 100 million in four years, the company's managing director, Eric Zhao, said.


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