The first stage is the birth of "Huawei 3Com".
At the end of the last century, the two giants in the data communications industry, Cisco and 3Com, competed fiercely. In the end, Cisco won and became the dominant player in the industry at that time. However, when the two giants were at odds with each other, At that time, Huawei quietly emerged and successfully entered the US market. In 2003, Cisco sued Huawei in a U.S. court for intellectual property infringement, hoping to squeeze Huawei out of the U.S. market. In response to Cisco's prosecution and to compete for the U.S. network communications market, Huawei and the U.S. company 3Com jointly established a joint venture - "Huawei 3Com". At that time, Huawei held 51 shares and 3Com held 49 shares. The headquarters was located in Hangzhou.
In the second stage, Huawei sold all its shares and H3C (Hua 3) was formally established.
From 2006 to 2007, Huawei sold 2 and 49 shares of "Huawei 3Com" to 3Com twice, and gave all its enterprise network business to H3C. Since then, "Huawei 3Com" has become It is a wholly-owned subsidiary of 3Com and officially changed its name to "H3C" (Hua III). There is no official statement on the reason for the sale.
In the third stage, HP acquired H3C and its business declined sharply.
In 2008, 3Com planned to sell H3C due to poor management. Huawei had been focusing on the operator market at that time, and H3C was at the forefront of the enterprise network market. Therefore, Huawei wanted to acquire H3C, which it founded. Comprehensively competing against Cisco, but due to the intervention of the US government, it failed, and Cisco must have had many bad intentions. In the end, 3Com and H3C were acquired by HP.
However, H3C’s life at HP was not easy. First, a large number of its businesses were divested by HP. Then, due to the "Snowden incident", the information security calls became louder and louder. In addition, Alibaba proposed the "De-IOE movement" (IOE refers to IBM, Oracle, and EMC. De-IOE means using domestic products to replace the products of the above three companies, with the purpose of reducing dependence on foreign products). Therefore, the sentiment to boycott foreign products was high at that time. , H3C, as a foreign-funded company, naturally had a difficult time, and its business declined sharply. Of course, HP is even more difficult. In 2014, due to poor management, the company was divided into "HP Inc." and "HP Enterprise."
The fourth stage, rebirth from the ashes, "Xinhua "Three Groups were established".
After years of suffering, the dawn finally dawned in 2016. Ziguang Group acquired 51 shares of H3C from HP for US$2.5 billion. Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) Holding another 49% of the equity, Ziguang Group became the controlling shareholder of H3C. Since then, H3C has had the coveted state-owned enterprise background and domestic enterprise status, and officially established the "New H3C Group". The previously lost and divested businesses have also It has begun to slowly return.
Now H3C is the core enterprise of Ziguang Group, with comprehensive digital infrastructure capabilities such as chips, computing, storage, networks, 5G, security, and terminals, and has 9 major industries. And 7 overseas branches, more than 50 sales and service agencies, products are served in more than 100 countries and regions, and the number of patent applications exceeds 12,000, of which more than 90 are invention patents. The company has a large number of products that rank among the best in the country. Class WLAN, Ethernet switches, non-x86 servers, blade servers, cloud management platforms, domestic brand server virtualization, SDN software, IT unified operation and maintenance software and other products are No. 1 in China, X86 servers, storage, enterprise network routers, hyper-convergence At the same time, the new H3C is the exclusive provider of HPE servers, storage and technical services in China.
The future of the "New H3C Group" is bright.