Huawei announced the launch of its OpenLab in India to provide ICT infrastructure support for smart city and enterprises digitisation transformation.
Huawei will be investing $23 million jointly in its OpenLabs in India and Thailand over the next 3 years.
“These facilities will provide platforms for customers and partners to innovate together using Huawei’s ICT capabilities and India’s local talent,” Jay Chen, CEO of Huawei India said.
OpenLab Delhi — located at Huawei India’s Gurugram headquarters is the 12th facility globally.
The OpenLab Delhi will focus on driving Smart City innovations in areas as diverse as IoT, Smart Pole, Smart Building, Smart Campus, Smart Transportation, Intelligent Video Surveillance solutions and Convergent Command & Control solutions.
“India is a key market for the Enterprise business and the OpenLab Delhi is an important part of Huawei’s global OpenLab plan. We will also be providing training and certification to Indian ICT talent in latest technologies at the OpenLab Delhi,” said Derek Hao, president, Enterprise Business Group, Huawei India.
Huawei OpenLab Delhi will offer ICT training to nearly 400 personnel per year; provide ICT Career Certification to 250 engineers per year; and Proof of Concept Training to nearly 100 engineers annually.
Huawei will partner with System Integrators (SI), Independent Software Vendors (ISVs), Independent Hardware Vendors (IHVs), and consultants for its OpenLab in India. Huawei, together with industry alliance and partners like Trinity, Videonetics, Qogno in India and Honeywell, SAP, Johnson Controls, OBS globally aims to build ICT ecosystem in India in response to industry’s digital transformation.
Currently, 211 of Fortune Globe 500, including 48 of the top 100, have selected Huawei as their partner in digital transformation.
Huawei had already opened 12 OpenLabs in Delhi (Gurgaon), Bangkok, Singapore, Munich, Paris, Dubai, Istanbul, Mexico City, Cairo, Johannesburg, Moscow and Suzhou (China).
Huawei will continue to invest in its OpenLab program to have more than 20 facilities globally. Over the next three years, Huawei will allocate nearly 1,000 talents around the world and invest a total of $200 million in the program.
