Huawei is bringing Chinese companies to the Asia Pacific market edge

Huawei's philosophy is to offer integrated but modular components for a digital platform, then to have a good ecosystem supporting it.

Leung (left, background) and Zhou (right, foreground).

While most companies create that ecosystem to benefit themselves, Huawei is looking for synergies for its partners too. At the recent Huawei ISP Summit in Indonesia the company invited customers from China so that they can further their interest in investing in the region, revealed Daniel Zhou, President, South Pacific, Huawei Enterprise Business Group.

"We are trying to do more bridge works to bridge business between regions," Zhou said during his keynote at the summit.

Asked about the move later, Zhou elaborated: "We see the ecosystem itelf not simply as the positioning of Huawei but we also want to build the ecosystem."

Zhou shared that this is the first time that Huawei has made the gesture. "In the last three summits it was different," he said. "In the past we ran the summits focused on the region. All the customers and partners were from that region.

"Last year we noticed that a lot of Chinese over the top (OTT) players were very interested in this market. Some are already here. Some are thinking about coming."

The company is also committed to facilitating interactions the opposite way, from the Asia Pacific in China. "Singapore companies are also looking at opportunities in China," Zhou said. "We will have activities in Shanghai and Beijing, and they will go with us."

Wing Kin Leung, CTO of Marketing and Solution Sales Department of the Huawei Enterprise Business Group, who called the move "bringing Chinese companies to the Asia Pacific market edge", added: "We sit in between and facilitate all the cooperation..we are happy to see that."

*Huawei sponsored transport and accommodation to the Huawei ISP Summit Asia Pacific 2019.