2002/11/11

¡¡(By Staff Member) PT/EXPO COMM CHINA 2002 kicked off on October 29th at China International Exhibition Center in Beijing. More than 500 corporations from 24 nations and areas participated in the five day exhibition. The showplace was more than 55,000 square meters. During the session of the expo, Futong Group made a presentation for its new generation network solution with brand-new insight.

¡¡Sponsored by the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), P. R. China and China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT), the International Communication Equipment and Technology Exhibition in China (PT/EXPO COMM CHINA) was specially organized by China National Postal Telecommunications Appliances Corporation (PTAC) and China International Exhibition Corporation (CIEC). Happening every even year, the expo is the only international communication information exhibition held in China at a national level. It is also the largest exhibition ever involved in Asia under the communication information category. Since held for the first time in 1994, this expo is the fifth one.

¡¡For more than ten years, the information industry in China has been developing with a steady pace that amounts to 2 to 3 times of the national GDP growth rate. The proportion of the communication and electronics Industry in the GDP growth has been increased, from 1.4% in1989 to 4.2% in 2001. A state public communication network, which covers the whole country and connects to the world, has been preliminarily formed with superior technologies and diversified services. The network has jumped to the first place among networks in the world in respect to its scope and capacity, with the level of its technology being among the most advanced in the world.

¡¡It is due to the recent years of rapid development of China communication Industry that the domestic communication market turns out to be the most potential one in the world. Particularly under the condition in which the global economy has experienced the decline and the communication market shrunk, the China market becomes more of a place contested by all strategists. This communication expo has therefore been on the focus of attention by the international communication circle. Its size is equivalent to the one in 2000 when the global telecommunication field was flourishing. It attracted not only powerful and strong carriers like China Telecom, Netcom, Unicom, Mobile, Satecom, and Railcom, but also well-known sino-foreign telecom equipment manufacturers and information technology companies, such as Nokia, Motorola, Ericsson, Simans, Alcatel, UTStarcom, Fujitsu, Lucent, DTT, Zhongxing, Huawei, and Futong Group. This fully demonstrates that there has been an all-out confidence in the China market among companies in the world communication landscape.

¡¡Many new technologies and equipment that had been developed and applied within prior two years were on the display during the session, however, what struck a clear-cut difference from the previous expos is that the demonstration of solutions and service will be taking up a more major stage, instead of displaying single pieces of gears. The sight of sophisticated satellite communication equipment, mobile phone products and technologies, varieties of mobile phones, Blue Tooth technology, fiberoptic communications, wiring systems, personal communication tools, test and analysis tools, and data transmission equipment and technologies were made possible during the session. But what occupy the major portion of the exhibition were network products and technologies, Internet products and service, microwave communications, broadcast communications, power supplies, battery equipment and products, access products and technologies, communication software and solutions, data warehousing technologies, electronic and mobilized business systems, and operation and service business.

¡¡With emphasized unambiguous theme slogans of ¡°New Network, New Business, and New Power¡± and ¡°FTTH - Futong - New Generation Network Solution Supplier,¡± the booth of Futong Group was novel in design and received close attentions from visitors. A set of leading communication solutions in the Industry was exhibited combinedly by Futong Group subsidiary companies, Green-Net Communication Technology Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen and Eastern Giants Technology Co., Ltd. in Shenzhen. The set includes the Next Generation Network ¨C AnyComm IP Network - Consolidated Services Solution, Easy-V Voice Solution, Campus Broadband Network Pricing Operation Solution, and the instances of application of those solutions in different places. Other than the above, the multitalented VDSL exchanger and the TiNet serial Ethernet exchanger, both of which have been recently introduced by Green-Net, were also shown in the exhibition. Showa Electric Wire & Cable Co., Ltd. of Japan presented its most recent networking solutions as well. During the exhibition period, Minister of MII Wu Chuanji visited the Futong booth in person. He inquired with President of Futong Wang Jianyi about the advancement of Futong into the information access segment and positively encouraged the practice. Over hundreds of patrons from all over the country paid a visit to the Futong booth with great interest. They were encountered with detailed introduction and demonstration of the product by the technical staff of the company, which allowed them to more closely comprehend the new generation network solution made at Futong Group.

¡¡(By Our Reporter)