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Huawei spends $4 billion on fixed broadband research

by on25 September 2014



Needs more pipes

Chinese outfit Huawei is to invest more than $4 billion in fixed broadband technology research and development (R&D) in the next three years. 

Huawei said fixed broadband pipes connecting homes and offices remained a "key direction for strategic investment." The Shenzhen-based company said it would research basic technologies such as photonics used in fibre optic cables as well as software-defined networking.

Fixed broadband technology will be important given the rise of high-resolution video technology, which for instance powers 4K television sets as well as commercial big data operations that also consume significant bandwidth.

While fixed broadband has largely been overshadowed in the press by mobile broadband, actually it will be extremely important over the next few years, Huawei said.

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