Detail The Company That Spooked The World; Huawei   Oleh:  [s.n] Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 404 no. 8796 (Aug. 2012), page 18-20. Topik: Computer Industry; Market Shares; Financial Performance Ketersediaan Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: EE29.73 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada     Lihat Detail Induk Isi artikel Banbury, a little English town best known for a walk-on part in a nursery rhyme and as the eponymous origin of a fruitcake, is an unlikely fulcrum for the balance of power in the world of telecoms. But the "Cyber Security Evaluation Centre" set up there by Huawei, a Chinese telecoms giant, in 2010 marks a new way of persuading purchasers, and the British government, that equipment from the manufacturer that runs it can be trusted. It operates in close co-operation with GCHQ, Britain's signals-intelligence agency, located conveniently just over the Cotswolds in Cheltenham. Its security-cleared staff, some of whom used to work for GCHQ, are responsible for making sure that the networking equipment and software that the Chinese firm wishes to sell to British telecoms companies are reliable, will only do what customers want them to do and cannot be exploited by cybercriminals or foreign spies--including Chinese ones. Several big Chinese firms, including ZTE and China Mobile, a giant mobile operator, have attracted scrutiny. But thanks to its size and its international reach it is Huawei that gets most attention. This July the firm's revenues outstripped those of Ericsson, for some time the world's largest supplier of telecoms equipment; Huawei clocked up 103 billion yuan ($16 billion) in the first half of 2012 compared with the Swedish firm's SKr106 billion ($15.5 billion). Because Huawei's sales as one of the world's ten largest mobile-phone manufacturers (a business Ericsson has left) account for about a quarter of that income, Ericsson is still the biggest supplier of network infrastructure. But probably not for long. The question of whether to trust this new giant divides the world. In Africa Huawei is everywhere, and welcome almost everywhere; in India it has found itself under attack by government and media as both a security threat and an unfair competitor. In Canada and New Zealand it has won meaty contracts for work on big new networks; in Australia in March the government blocked it from taking part in a new national broadband system. Opini Anda Klik untuk menuliskan opini Anda tentang koleksi ini! Kembali

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