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46 Huawei Investment & Holding Co., Ltd. 2014 Annual Report
FlexOTN architecture has become a core solution in
next-generation OTN evolution, leading 400G OTN
standards. We drove the release of G.fast standards,
and increased the speed of copper wires to more
than 1 Gbit/s, making copper wires as important as
FTTH. We initiated and led efforts to standardize
K-V interfaces for massive storage and redefine the
Storage Management Initiative Specification (SMI-S) at
the Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA),
spearheading the technological trend of IP-based and
simplified storage management.
By December 31, 2014, Huawei was a member of 177
standards and open source organizations and held
183 key positions. We served as a board member of
IEEE-SA, ETSI, WFA, TMF, OneM2M, OMA, OASIS, and
CCSA, among many others. We were actively involved in
3GPP and IETF, holding several leadership positions, and
played a major role in initiating key projects. Huawei
submitted more than 4,800 standards proposals in
2014.
By the end of 2014, we had filed 48,719 patent
applications in China and 23,917 outside of China, with
38,825 granted. In 2014, Huawei made it onto the Top
100 Global Innovators list1.
Huawei has consistently invested over 10% of its sales
revenue in R&D every year. In 2014, we employed
approximately 76,000 R&D employees, comprising 45%
of our total workforce. Huawei's R&D expenditure
totaled CNY40,845 million in 2014, accounting for
14.2% of the company's total revenue. We cumulatively
spent more than CNY190,000 million on R&D over the
last decade.
1 The Top 100 Global Innovators list is released by the Intellectual Property & Science division of Thomson Reuters. The selection
is mainly based on four metrics: volume of patents, success rate, global reach, and influence.
Huawei established a 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC) together
with the University of Surrey in the UK, multiple well-
known companies, and world-renowned carriers. We jointly
announced the world's first 5G testbed in London in November
2014, confirming our position at the forefront of global 5G
research.
As an important contributor to ICT standards and the
ICT industry, we have been actively involved in and
promoted the development and implementation of
mainstream international standards. We have partnered
with stakeholders to build a mutually beneficial industry
chain and ecosystem. We have helped create major
opportunities for industry development such as 5G, IoT,
and NFV and thereby steer the direction of the industry.
We have striven to establish a series of industry alliances;
for example, ETSI ISG mWT, SDN, eLTE, APT700, 3.5G,
disaster recovery technology, and data centers.
In Europe, Huawei was elected to the Board of 5G
Infrastructure Association under the 5G PPP and
participated in the EU Framework Programme for
Research and Innovation under the Horizon 2020
programme. We helped initiate the 802.11ax TG
for next-generation Wi-Fi, and created a new Next
Generation 60 GHz (NG60) Study Group (SG). Huawei's