Huawei Joins the SDR Forum

Huawei, a telecommunications equipment manufacturer based in Shenzhen, China, has joined The SDR Forum, a non-profit industry association dedicated to promoting the success of next-generation radio technologies. 

Huawei (News - Alert) can now collaborate with the other 108 member organizations of the SDR Forum to educate and influence decision makers, develop and expand markets and advance relevant technologies while supporting their mutual objectives.

Pucker said that by joining the SDR Forum, companies like Huawei illustrate the continuing value the forum brings in facilitating collaboration between technical, government and business leaders at all levels of the wireless value chain to improve performance, reduce the total life cost of ownership, and facilitate the rapid deployment of standardized families of products, technologies and services.

“Huawei has established a significant roadmap in terms of SDR development and deployment,” Zhu Haobing, vice president of Huawei’s Wireless Product Line, said. 

The SDR Forum has member companies representing countries around the globe, however, Huawei is the group’s first member from China. 

This new membership was facilitated by the recent partnership between the SDR Forum and Infoex-World Services, allowing Infoex to represent the Forum’s 100+ members in China.

Zhang Wei, technology director and chief representative of Infoex-World Services Ltd., said that SDR is a promising technology with a bright future in China. 

"Infoex is partnering with the SDR Forum to promote the understanding and adoption of Software Defined Radio across to spectrum regulators, wireless equipment manufacturers and the carrier community," Wei said.

Earlier this month, Huawei, had announced that it has commercially deployed what it claimed to be the world' s first unified network management system, iManager U2000 for Shanghai Unicom, a subsidiary of China Unicom.