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Optical Transceivers, Transponders and Repeaters
News Release from: Bookham
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 09 June 2006
Huawei recognises supplier performance
Bookham has received the prestigious Excellent Supplier award from Huawei in recognition of the company's performance in 2005.
Bookham has received the prestigious Excellent Supplier award from Huawei - China's largest telecomms equipment vendor and the third largest telecomms optical networking equipment manufacturer worldwide - in recognition of the company's performance as a supplier in 2005 The award recognises in particular the quality and delivery performance achieved by Bookham with products manufactured in its major new assembly facility in Shenzhen, China, from which nearly all of the Bookham telecomms products are now being shipped
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 12 Jul 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Bookham supplies a wide range of its high end optical components and modules to Huawei, including 10Gbit/s copackaged laser modulators, receivers, directly modulated lasers and optical pumps.
Over the last three years Huawei has ranked among the Bookham top three customers in most quarters and this is the second time Bookham has been honoured with an award from Huawei: in 2004, Bookham received the Gold Supplier of the Year Award, the first time an optical components company was awarded this prize.
"We are pleased to see that Bookham has maintained consistently high quality during the product transfer to Shenzhen and has even improved delivery performance since the transfer", said Danny Shi at Huawei.
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"This award recognises Bookham's commitment".
Bookham opened an advanced manufacturing facility in Shenzhen, in the same area as Huawei, in March 2004.
Since then, transmit and receive optical assemblies, erbium-doped fibre amplifiers (EDFAs), mini gain block and metro amplifiers, and fibre and connector subassemblies have been transferred and received customer approval.
Production lines for receivers, pumps, direct modulated lasers and InP Mach-Zehnder (MZ) lasers have been fully qualified and customer volume shipment started.
Key quality systems and processes have also been established in Shenzhen in line with the company's best practices and global TL9000 and ISO9000:2000 registration.
"To receive an award from Huawei is an achievement of which we are extremely proud".
"It confirms that we are able to offer high quality and cost-effective manufacturing to meet the needs of our customers in China and around the world", said Adrian Meldrum, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Bookham.
"China is a very important market for Bookham, and is crucial to the business's ongoing strategy".
Bookham now employs over 950 people in its Shenzhen assembly facility.
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