In 1997, Huawei won its first overseas contract,providing fixed-line network products to Hong Kong company Hutchison Whampoa.Later that year, Huawei launched its wireless GSM-based products and eventually expanded to offer CDMA and UMTS. In 1999, the company opened a research and development (R&D) center in Bangalore, India to develop a wide range of telecom software. From 1998 to 2003, Huawei contracted with IBM
for management consulting, and underwent significant transformation of
its management and product development structure. After 2000, Huawei
increased its speed of expansion into overseas markets, having achieved
international sales of
more than US$100 million by 2000 and establishing an R&D center in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2001, Huawei established four R&D centers in the United States, divested non-core subsidiary Avansys to Emerson for US$750 million and joined the International Telecommunications Union (ITU). By 2002, Huawei’s international market sales had reached US$552 million.
In 2004 Huawei continued its overseas expansion with a contract to build a third-generation network for Telfort, the Dutch mobile operator.[
This contract, valued at more than $US25 million, was the first such contract for the company in Europe.
In 2005, Huawei’s international contract orders exceeded its domestic
sales for the first time. Huawei signed a Global Framework Agreement
with Vodafone.
This agreement marked the first time a telecommunications equipment
supplier from China had received Approved Supplier status from Vodafone
Global Supply Chain. The agreement established the terms and conditions
for the supply of Huawei's solutions to any one of the Vodafone
operating companies worldwide. Huawei also signed a contract with British Telecom (BT) for the deployment of its multi-service access network (MSAN) and Transmission equipment for BT's 21Century Network (21CN), providing BT and the UK telecommunications industry with infrastructure necessary to support future growth.
In May 2008, Huawei and Optus
developed a mobile innovation centre in Sydney, Australia, providing
facilities for engineers to develop new wireless and mobile broadband
concepts into "ready for market" products. In 2008, the company embarked on its first large scale commercial deployment of UMTS/ HSPA in North America providing TELUS's new next generation wireless network and Bell Canada with high-speed mobile access.[23]
Huawei delivered one of the world’s first LTE/EPC commercial networks for TeliaSonera
in Oslo, Norway in 2009. The company launched the world's first
end-to-end 100G solution from routers to transmission system that same
year, to help meet the rapid growth of network traffic and enhance
router efficiency and reliability.
In July 2010, Huawei was included in the Global Fortune 500 2010 list published by the U.S. magazine Fortune for the first time, on the strength of annual sales of US$21.8 billion and net profit of US$2.67 billion.
In late 2010 it was reported that Huawei is planning to invest around
US$500 million (Rs 2,200 crore) to set up a telecom equipment manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu, India and $US100 million to expand its R&D center in Bangalore.来自：求助得到的回答