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Tsinghua Tongfang and 6Wind partnership to take China's booming ICT market by storm

22/11/2005

China’s high-technology industrial giant signs agreement to leverage 6WIND’s market-leading networking software for delivering new generation e-applications

Beijing and Paris, November 22, 2005 – 6WIND pioneer in advanced IP-agnostic software technologies, and Tsinghua Tongfang, announced today, that they have entered into a  strategic partnership to co-develop and market industrial e-application solutions for China, the world’s fastest growing economy with the largest ICT market potential.  The agreement, uniting two world-class market innovators and technology leaders, was signed during a meeting between TsingHua Tongfang executives and 6WIND’s executive board members in Paris, France, on November 17th 2005.
Tsinghua Tongfang, China’s largest industrial supplier of e-application solutions and network integration was the first to provide intelligent e-city services in the area of integrated city management and planning and has developed total digital solutions for intelligent homes and buildings.  6WIND, a fast-expanding international networking software company, is revolutionizing development processes of new generation IP-centric applications for systems integrators and equipment makers spanning from France to China, South Korea, Japan and the USA. 

Under the terms of the agreement, Tsinghua Tongfang will leverage 6WIND’s cutting-edge IP-agnostic software technology to complement its industry-wide expertise in developing and marketing new lines of products and systems for 5 principal e-application areas:
- video surveillance
- urban heating and water treatment
- digital homes
- highway smart card systems
- intelligent building systems

“China is poised to leapfrog several generations of legacy networking technologies by benefiting from latest best-in-class solutions to build state-of-the-art ICT access.  By collaborating with 6WIND and integrating its advanced dual-IP software, Tsinghua Tongfang is taking a definitive step to further innovate and create new market opportunities towards achieving China’s status as the economic powerhouse of 21st Century ICT.  We will be strategically positioned to timely deliver new competitively priced, scalable and future-proof industrial application systems that are totally IP-centric,” said Mr Li  Jisheng, Vice President of Tsinghua Tongfang and CEO of the group’s IT business division.

“We are constantly surprised by the speed at which China is modernizing all facets of its industries and communications infrastructure. Our partnership with Tsinghua Tongfang is a significant milestone with multiple economic and market implications, reinforcing 6WIND’s commitment and ensuring more localized adaptation and content of pragmatic IP-centric systems for whole new generations of Chinese users.  We are proud to be working with a remarkable visionary company like Tsinghua Tongfang, contributing to China’s dynamic ICT growth,” said Alain Dasté, 6WIND’s Chief Executive Officer.

About Tsinghua Tongfang Co. Ltd.
Tsinghua Tongfang Holdings Co. Ltd. (www.thtf.com.cn/2002/index.php) is a holding company with Beijing Tsing Hua University Enterprise Corporation as its principal stockholder.  It was licensed to trade at the Shanghai Stock-Exchange on 27 June, 1997.  With combined annual sales of over $900,000,000, Tsinghua Tongfang is established in four major lines of business including information technology, energy and environmental engineering, applied nuclear technology and bio-medicine.
Tsinghua Tongfang's leading enterprise is telecommunications with network systems as its core business.  After many years of combining technological research and manufacturing, Tsinghua Tongfang has built for itself high and new technological product portfolios with proprietary intellectual property rights.  These portfolios include network technology, software and system integration, data-processing and -servicing, broadband communications and computer products.  Tsinghua Tongfang has successfully released enterprise-oriented total solutions in areas of automated systems for the home, city, government and transport including e-commerce, e-education and smart card systems.
Further information regarding Tsinghua Tongfang can be found at http://www.thtf.com.cn/www/web/index.aspx.

About 6WIND
6WIND is the undisputed leader and innovator of advanced IP-agnostic* networking software for OEM licensing.  The company’s flagship technology, 6WINDGate™, enables system integrators and network equipment providers to significantly cut development time and costs, simplify network application integration and accelerate the go-to-market process of new generation multi-services IP-centric systems and gateways.  6WINDGate-empowered devices are used worldwide in advanced dual IP projects on mobility, WLAN, interoperability, and secure broadband access by major industrial corporations, ISPs and telecommunication operators, public services, state bodies and the academia. 
6WIND was the first European company to receive the global IPv6-ready logo.  A European Information Society Technology 2004 award winner, it was also named a “Leader of Innovation”, Europe in 2005.  The company is a spin-out of Thales (HO.FP) with headquarters in France and offices in Asia.

* Internet Protocol version agnostic, refers to the ability of 6WINDGate to support seamless networking on any IP infrastructure without favoring IPv4 or IPv6, having been developed ground-up to support both.

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