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■ In the Internet domain, Huawei constructed an
efficient and secure cloud platform for Qwant,
France's top search engine company, and built a
cost-effective hosting platform for LeaseWeb in the
Netherlands. Huawei's products and solutions were
deployed by more than 90 Internet companies and
data center cloud service providers.
■ In the education domain, Huawei's Elastic Education
Cloud Solution was applied in more than 20 countries
and regions. Our Smart Campus Solution helped
more than 50 universities—including Tsinghua
University—apply innovative ICT to teaching and
research. Additionally, our Agile Education WAN
Solution significantly increased the speed of the
China Education and Research Network.
■ In the media and entertainment domain,
approximately 200 media institutions from 15
countries, including China, France, and Italy,
deployed Huawei's Omnimedia Solution. We
partnered with Sobey Digital Technology to deploy
the industry's first service-defined omnimedia
cloud solution in the converged press center of
Shenzhen Media Group, helping the group achieve
its strategic transformation towards omnimedia.
Our HD Program Production Solution—which
was built on Big Data storage and Agile Network
technologies—was extensively used on a commercial
basis by leading media groups such as China Central
Television, Phoenix TV, Hong Kong's TVB, and Hunan
Broadcasting System.
■ Huawei also partnered with more than 20 leading
global carriers, including Vodafone Global Enterprise,
Deutsche Telekom, and BT Global Services, to
provide ICT services for enterprise customers.
Based on its BDII strategy, Huawei invested heavily
in R&D. We made notable progress in the following
domains: enterprise networking, data centers, office
collaboration, cloud computing, and high-end storage.
To increase network agility for services, we released our
Agile Branch and Cloud Fabric Data Center Network
solutions, and optimized our Agile Network Solution.
Approximately 500 enterprises worldwide have
deployed these solutions. Our Cloud Fabric Data Center
Network Solution, Agile Campus Solution with wired
and wireless hybrid networks, and enterprise network
security products were all positively rated in many
reports, including Gartner's magic quadrants. According
to 2014 Q2 statistics from IDC, we ranked third globally
in the Ethernet switch market and the second with
our data center switches, low-end access products,
and routers. Huawei's S12700 series agile switches
received the 2014 Interop Tokyo Enterprise Networking
Special Prize and the SDN Solution award from the
US-based IT website Network World. Huawei's unified
communications and collaboration, videoconferencing,
and contact center solutions have been extensively
deployed on a commercial basis in more than 60
countries and regions, and entered developed markets
including Europe and North America.
By following the concept of "Make IT Simple, Make
Business Agile", our IT products became more
competitive in the marketplace:
■ More than 700,000 virtual machines were running
on Huawei's virtualization products by the end of
2014.
■ Revenue growth from our storage products ranked
first in the world for five consecutive quarters,
earning a position in Gartner's Challengers quadrant.
Notably, our high-end storage products were
included in the Major Players quadrant.