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Huawei's leadership role in IMS standards development and in its own proprietary Softswitch

2010; Emerald Publishing Limited; Volume: 4; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1108/17506141011094109

1750-6158

William Foster, Russell C. Reinsch,

ICT Impact and Policies

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study of Huawei's leadership role in the Internet Protocol Multi‐media Subsystem (IMS) international standards effort while it developed its own proprietary Softswitch solution. This strategy of leading the standards bodies, developing proprietary standards, and being the low‐cost provider is helping Huawei to become the number one telecom company in the world.