Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei, a former engineer in the People's Liberation Army, is a Chinese multinational networking and telecommunications equipment and services company with its headquarters in Shenzhen, Guangdong. At the beginning, Huawei was focused on manufacturing phone switches, but has since expanded its business to include building telecommunications networks; providing operational and consulting services and equipment to enterprises inside and outside of China; and manufacturing communicationsdevices such as mobiles, tablets etc. for the consumer market. Recently it has stepped into the smartwatch market with an Android Wear based device. It is the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world, having overtaken Ericsson in 2012.