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Huawei to open new lab in Germany
    2018-10-25  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

HUAWEI Technologies will open a new information security lab in Germany next month that will enable source code reviews in a step aimed at winning regulators’ confidence before the country’s 5G mobile spectrum auction.

Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) said Huawei will open the lab on Nov. 16 in Bonn, where the BSI and other key regulators are based.

Also headquartered in the former capital is Deutsche Telekom, the partly state-owned market leader that has close business ties with Huawei.

The lab would facilitate source-code reviews, a BSI official said. This entails examining the programing language used to run network gear and screening it for vulnerabilities such as “back doors” that might allow spy agencies to gain covert access.

“We have to deal with the reality that there are few hardware manufacturers in Germany — they come from abroad,” a BSI official said. “Based on this reality, we have to achieve the best level of security possible.”

Huawei was among a group of telecom providers and network equipment suppliers that took part in a workshop hosted by the BSI last week to address security in 5G networks that can enable connected factories, self-driving cars and telemedicine.

The company declined to comment on any cooperation with the German authorities, but said: “Information security is absolutely central to all we do.”

“We rigorously test the cyber-security of our products against the highest global standards,” a spokesman said.

The opening of Huawei’s lab comes just as Germany’s federal network regulator, which is also based in Bonn, finalizes terms for the 5G licensing round that it plans to hold in the first quarter of 2019.

Total costs of building out Germany’s 5G networks could run to 80 billion euros (US$92 billion), making the stakes huge for Huawei, the top global supplier with a market share of 28 percent, and rivals Ericsson, Nokia, ZTE and Samsung.

Huawei has already gained a foothold, partnering with Deutsche Telekom on a 5G pilot project in Berlin.

Germany’s federal interior ministry, for its part, said in answer to a parliamentary question last week that there was no legal basis to exclude any foreign equipment provider from Germany’s 5G buildout — nor was any such measure planned.(SD-Agencies)

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