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Wall
History in brief
In 1992
1.
Founded in early 1992,
Wall started its initial businesses by
representing Ericsson Cable for sales of fusion
splicers as well as other testing equipment and
devices from the other companies to the Chinese
cabling industry. In this way, it had earned its
first barrel of gold.
2.
Wall had won the
tender of fusion splicers by Ministry of Post
and Telecommunications (MPT) for the optic fibre
trunk line in the southern east China coast.
Since then Wall was among the qualified
suppliers for MPT.
3.
Cooperating with China
Telecommunications Construction Corp., Wall had
established a service center for fusion splicers
providing full services to MPT and its
subsidiaries using testing equipment from Wall.
4.
Wall started to
represent Laser Precision Corp. of USA for sales
of its all product portfolios. In about a decade
since then, Wall had expanded Laser precision
Corp.’s market share in China from scratch to
tens of million RMB Yuan a year.
5.
Wall had materialized
a Chinese interfacing on TD2000 OTDR it was
selling in China. The invention of the Chinese
interfacing on OTDR from Wall was first time
ever in the world and originated from China,
resulting in a round of innovations in China:
Chinese interfacing and operating system became
a must fancution for all fibre optic testers
sold to the Chinese market.
6.
Wall had for the first
time introduced into the Chinese market
Swisscab’s cabling manufacturing equipment and
expanded its annual sales revenue from zero to
hundreds of million RMB Yuan. The sales of the
products related to the equipment had also
reached to one hundred million RMB Yuan.
7.
Wall had formed a
joint venture, Tianjin Xing Guang
Telecommunications Company Ltd. with Tianjin
Optic Fibre Information United Development Co.,
specializing in passive optic components such as
fibre connectors, etc. Xing Guang company has
been consecutively awarded with the title of the
enterprise with good performance in Tianjin
Economic Development Zone for a decade.
In 1993
1.
Wall had won the
tender of fibre optic instruments including
fusion splicers etc. by MPT for Beijing-Wuhan-Guangzhou
directly buried cable trunk line
2.
Wall started to sell
Diamond of Swiss products of DIN jumper
connectors and became the only enterprise in the
world processing the DIN adaptors apart from
Diamond co. itself.
3.
Wall started to
represent York Tech Ltd. of UK for sales of
fibre optic instruments and soon made it a main
supplier to Fibre and cabling industry
4.
Wall had formed a
joint venture (Beijing Wall Comm Co. Ltd.) with
Beijing Research Institute of Glass industry
focusing on projects and product of fibre
network monitoring systems and cable TV
transmission systems. The joint venture had been
awarded with the title of high tech enterprise
with good performance for a few consecutive
years.
5.
Wall had won the
tenders from army for telecom testing equipment
and become its qualified supplier. Since then
Wall products were among the list of army
procurement for years.
In 1994
1.
Wall represented AESA
co. for sales of cabling testing equipment and
had expanded its market share from nothing to
half of the Chinese market.
2.
Wall had won the
tender of fibre optic instruments including
fusion splicers etc. by MPT for Beijing-Wuhan-Guangzhou
overhead fibre cables.
3.
Wall had entered the
Chinese market for cable TV and started to sell
fibre trans-receiving systems of Antec co. of
USA and MMDS system of ITS co. of USA. At the
same Wall was also representing a few CATV
testing equipment suppliers for sales.
4.
Wall had formed a
joint venture (Nanjing Wall Fibre optic Co.
Ltd.) with Nanjing Jiang Ling Machinery Factory,
Nanjing Research Institute of Electric Power
Automation (Nan Rui Group) and Nanjing
Telecommunications Engineering Institute of PLA,
manufacturing and selling fibre optic products
including CATV transmission system etc.
5.
Wall had won the
tender of more than one hundred units of OTDR by
MPT for Beijing-Shenyang-Harbin cable trunk
line. That was the biggest order ever from MPT
in its domestic and overseas procurement of the
same tester.
In 1995
1.
Wall had succeeded in
establishing and operating in Guangzhou Telecom
Office, China Telecom the first fibre on-line
monitoring system in China, change the telecom
carrier’s years old passive maintenance of fibre
network.
2.
Wall had won at times
the tenders of fiber optics equipment in China
telecom projects for Beijing-Taiyuan-Xi,an and
Xi’an-Lanzhou-Urumqi cable trunk lines
3.
Wall stated to
represent ICT of Spain for sales of its full
product portfolio, making ICT from a unknown
company in China to one among main suppliers to
the Chinese market for telecom transmission
testers
4.
Wall started to
represent Datron Telecom of USA for sales of all
its products for military telecom applications
and successfully made its products of man-pack
and vehicle-amounted transceivers listed in the
procurement of China telecom network for war
preparation and standard army equipment.
5.
The Fiber optic
testing equipments such as FSU925 fusion
splicers sold by Wall had been selected by
Electrical bureau, Ministry of Railways (MOR) as
its nominated products and had been purchased
for years since then for daily maintenance in
MOR
In 1996
1.
Wall had formed a
joint venture (Shanghai Wall Com Equipments Co.
Ltd.) with Shanghai branch of Telecom & Signal
Bureau, MOR, managing and manufacturing testing
equipment applied to railways.
2.
Wall started to
represent exclusively EG&G of USA for fibre
testing equipment and expanded its market share
for chromatic dispersion in China to 90% by its
CD300 chromatic dispersion testers.
3.
Wall started to
cooperate with Shanghai Research Institute of
Cabling industry to run Wall Shanghai office and
obtained very good achievements in developing
raw materials applied to cabling industry such
as fibre, tube etc..
4.
Wall had formed a
joint venture (Guang Zhou Wall Telecom Co. Ltd.)
with Guangzhou Telecom Office, China Telecom,
mainly specializing in professional work such as
integration, sales and maintenance, etc of fibre
cable monitoring systems in Guang Dong province.
In 1997
1.
Wall had formed a
joint venture (Changchun Wall Information Tech
Co., Ltd.) with Changchun Institute of Post and
Telecommunications engaging in engineering
design and implementation for optic fibre
network construction
2.
Wall had become the
sole supplier of fusion splicers in the tender
of China Telecom for Lanzhou-Xining-Lasa fibre
trunk line project. Wall had made success
testing at Tang Gu La Mountain Pass, Tibet at
altitude of 5000 metres above see proving that
FSU925 fusion splicers it provided could work
well at high altitude and extremely low
temperature.
3.
Wall had exported
Fiber Optics and Telecom products to North Korea
4.
The telecom testing
equipment provided by Wall were once again
nominated by PLA as its standard equipment
5.
Beijing Wall OFC
Trading Co. Ltd was founded and planning to
establish its distribution channels for its
telecommunication products through Beijing Zhong
Guang Cun retail market
In 1998
1.
Wall had formed a
joint venture (Beijing Wall Photoelectronic Co.
Ltd) with Beijing Institute of Technology,
specializing in business of infrared products in
fibre optic sector. It had soon become a
high-tech enterprise in Zhong Guan Cun High Tech
Garden.
2.
Quickly entering
photonic component sector, Wall at the same
represented a few component manufacturers in USA
and Europe for sales in China and achieved good
sales performance
3.
Wall had formed a
joint venture (Guilin Wall Fibre optic Co.,
Ltd.) with Electronic Research Institute No. 34,
Ministry of Information Industry (MII),
developing and manufacturing passive and active
fiber optic components. The joint venture had
soon become a new hight-tech enterprise in
Guilin, Guangxi.
4.
Wall started to enter
data communication market by representing Radcom
of Israel for sales of data communication
testing instruments.
5.
Wall moved its head
office to a new office located in 16th
floor, Wantong New World Plaza, Beijing
In 1999
1.
Wall had formed a
joint venture (Chengdu Wall Communications Co.,
Ltd.) with The 5th Institute of MII(
Datang Telecom), mainly in the business of fibre
optic testing equipment as well as Wall Group’s
businesses in southern west of China.
2.
Wall started full
cooperation with EXFO of Canada by promoting
sales of its full product portfolio and won the
first tender by China Telecom with EXFO
products. Later on, Wall had promoted EXFO
products to be among mainstream of the Chinese
Telecom market.
3.
Wall had acquired
China Star International Technology Cooperation
Corp.
4.
Wall had established
its presence in the market for railway signaling
by inviting Design Institute of Communications &
Signal Corp., MOR and China Civic Engineering
Construction Corp. (CCECC) to became new
shareholders of Beijing Wall Com Co., Ltd. in
its restructuring
5.
Wall had entered Fiber
optic passive component manufacturing sector by
inviting The No.11 Electronic Research Institute
of MII to become new shareholder of Beijing Wall
PhotoElectronic Co. Ltd in the latter’s
restructuring. The Institute no. 11 invested in
Beijing Wall PhotoElectronic Co. Ltd. by all its
tangible and intangible assets. Wall had sieved
the opportunity in the start up of world opto
telecom market and then been considerably
rewarded.
6.
Wall had jointly with
Optic Engineering Department, Beijing Institute
of Technology to set up Wall BIT China Research
Centre jointly researching academic issues and
developing products of passive optic components.
7.
Wall had set up Wall
Innovation Ltd. at Silicon Valley, in USA,
establishing the R & D base for Wall Group at
the origin of fibre optic high-tech, etc.
In 2000
1.
Wall had acquired
Beijing Wen Cui Auction Ltd. under CPPCC and
planned to start auctions on website.
2.
Registered with the
fund of tens of million RMB Yuan, Beijing Wall
Investment Co. Ltd was funded as a legal entity
in China and was used as a platform for Wall to
march into Venture capital investor.
3.
With Beijing
University of Post and Telecommunications, Yong
Jin Group, Zhongshan Gong Yong Group, etc., Wall
had jointly set up Bu Tele Tech Co. Ltd. and
planned to list the joint venture at Shenzhen
Growing Enterprise Market.(www.bt-t.com)
4.
Wall started up its
plan to list itself on HK Growing Enterprise
Market.
5.
“.COM” bubbles basted
resulting in break of its value chains. Fiber
Optic market had shown its downturn trend.
6.
Wall sold the tangible
and intangible assets related to fiber optic of
Beijing Wall Photoelectronic Co. Ltd to a group
in Shanghai, thus rewarding Wall with return
considerably higher than investment and cashing
in its assets sold. Wall had therefore become
the only enterprise in the Chinese Fiber optics
industry benefiting its investment in fiber
optic.
7.
Wall marched into
digital TV sector by investing in
DTVIA
Tech labs Co., Ltd.
(www.DTVIA.org.cn)
8.
Wall went into
manufacturing sector of optic-end exchange and
ethernet exchange by investing in Chengdu
Widearea Telecom Tech Co. Ltd. (www.wideaera.com.cn)
9.
Wall had moved its
head office to 27th floor, Tower C,
Chengming Building, Beijing.
In 2001
1.
Wall expanded its
product portfolio to optical switches, handheld
laser sources and power meters, etc. by
investing Beijing YaZhong Instruments Co Ltd.
with capital, technology and marketing
resources.
2.
Owing to change of
Fiber optic market, The plan of Wall to IPO in
HK Growing Enterprise Market had been shelved.
3.
Wall International
Investment Ltd. was registered in HK and
involving in securities businesses.
4.
In restructuring of
Beijing Wall Innovation Investment & Management
Co., Ltd., Wall cooperated with the buisnes
school , Tsinghua University to do management
consulting business and provode consulting
services to a few listed companies and well
known firms.
In 2002
1.
Bidding for the tender
of Beijing Traffic Administration Bureau for
traffic monitoring network, Wall was qualified
as a supplier to the bureau and entering the
sector of intelligent control of traffic (ITS)
2.
Wall started to
represent AOIP of France in China to sell its
handheld testers of cat. 5 & 6 cables
3.
Wall invested into
Shenzhen Wall Huan Tong Telecom IT Co. Ltd
selling testing equipment for access network and
to cover business of Wall Group in Southern West
of China
4.
Wall started full
cooperation with Ando of Japan.
5.
Wall started to
represent Sigma System of USA in China to sell
its products of temperature controlling
platforms and chambers
6.
Wall started to
represent Nyfors of Sweden in China to sell its
products of fibre optic recoater, AutoPre, etc.
7.
Wall started to
represent PowerOptics of USA in China to sell
its products of light sources, Electro-Opto
source, etc.
In 2003
1.
SARS broke out and
spread over China
2.
Wall started to
cooperate with Lumics of Germany to sell in
China its laser products.
3.
Wall restructured Wall
Photoelectronic Co. Ltd. to Beijing Wall IT Co.,
Ltd. specializing in development and sales of
telecommunications software.
4.
Wall had won two
tenders from North Division of China Telecom for
fusion splicers, OTDR, handheld SDH testers,
laser sources and power meters, etc.
5.
Wall had formed a
joint venture called Wall BU academy of Telecom
with Computer Institute, BUPT, specializing in R
& D work on telecom software.
In 2004
1.
Wall had entered
digital TV sector by investing tens of millions
RMB Yuan in DTVIA again. thus becoming its 1st
majority share holder in order to get hold of
new commercial opportunities brought by “Three
networks merge “ (Combination of telecom, CATV
and computer networks)
2.
Wall started to have
its Wall branded fusion splicers by investing in
Nanjing DVP OE Tech Co. Ltd.
3.
During Mach and May,
2004, Mr. Magnus Breidne, Scientific &
Technology Counsellor, Sweden Embassy to China
and Mr. Ciro Vasquez, Senior business
development manager, Invest in Sweden Agency as
well as their entourage had visited separately
Beijing head office of Wall Group. They had
clearly demonstrated their supports for the
technical and commercial cooperations between
Wall and Swedish high-tech companies in the past
years. They also hope Wall and Swedish parties
can establish an interactive platform for
investment to expand the cooperations among Wall
and Swedish companies from fibre optic
communications to telecommunications and
information technology sectors. Both parties
have reached a consensus that both parties
should upgrade the mutual visits and exchanges
periodically in the future.
4.
Wall started to
cooperate with Nettest of USA in China to sell
its products.
5.
Wall has formed a
joint venture named Wall Guangzhou Technical
Service Centre with Telecom. Equipment Company
under Guangdong Telecom. Bureau in the purpose
of establishing a regional technical service
system in south China to provide a expanded area
and territory for the sales and use of both
parties’ telecom products and systems
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