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QUANTA NETWORKS IT & OT Solutions for the Modern Enterprise Outpace disruption with solutions that adapt to both IT and OT business models to gain a competitive advantage, improve operational efficiency and maximize profitability. IT Solutions OT Solutions SP Solutions. Following years of deployments in 5G-based ORAN (open radio access network), Quanta Cloud Technology (QCT), a subsidiary of Quanta Computer, has set sail on a new journey to help enterprises.

Server

• Founded in 2000, Quanta's Enterprise Solutions Business Unit (ESBU) was an innovator which focused on ODM/OEM business development and manufacturing of high-performance IT equipment, enabling enterprises to manage IT more effectively, to enhance business more efficiently and as a result, to get more profits eventually. Product lines include high level blade servers, 1U/2U/4U rack servers, server motherboards, 10GbE LAN cards, storage, and L2/L3 networking switches…etc. In recent years, cloud computing has become the market trend in the world. Therefore, ESBU was renamed to be Cloud Computing Business Unit (CCBU) in 2010.
• CCBU has more than 600 experienced engineers dedicated for product development. By leveraging Quanta's strong manufacturing infrastructure, worldwide logistics, service centers, and supply chain, CCBU has successfully customized datacenter hardware solutions for international firms, telecom companies, and cloud service providers worldwide and is getting good prestige in the cloud industry.
• In addition, CCBU is also devoted to provide green solutions from product design, customization, manufacturing, to stack & rack integration for your existing datacenter architecture and applications. Our vision is to build a partnership with our clients while developing high-performance, environmental-friendly system for corporate responsibility to our earth.

Unsurpassed 4U rackmount server for HPC & server consolidation

• The Quanta 4U quad-processor rackmount server is designed to deliver high performance, reliability and scalability to enterprises with support for up to four multi-core Intel® Xeon® Processor 7500 series and large memory capacity in 64 DIMM slots. The expansion capacity makes it competitive and ideal for large-data-set workloads, business-critical applications (ERP, CRM, SAP…etc.), server virtualization & consolidation, and virtual desktop hosting. With the future-ready 4U server, there is no need to reconstruct data centers when enterprises want to increase workload capacity.

Impressively outstanding 1U/2U rackmount servers

• Quanta 1U/2U servers provide business comprehensive system solutions by supporting the latest Intel® Xeon® multi-core processor 5500/5600 sequence and IPMI 2.0. In order to satisfy business' needs on remote management to the system, the server has 'KVM over IP' function. These 1U/2U new value-added servers are designed for increasing business' demands on HPC application, web-hosting infrastructure, front-end enterprise databases, minimal-downtime cluster server, and etc.

Large datacenter networking switches

• Designed for the needs of enterprises and data centers, Quanta provides high quality and cost effective wire-speed layer2/3 switch products. In order to perfectly meet your evolving business requirements and new application deployments, Quanta delivers a wide range of products from 10 Gigabit to Fast Ethernet and provides options of open-source customization.

High density JBOD Storage

• Flexible, affordable and highly available, Quanta storage enclosures integrate with Quanta servers to provide enterprises simple and affordable IT infrastructure. The 4U disk enclosure is designed to meet the needs of data growth and flexibility. Users could easily scale up the storage capability with the growth of their business, and access to critical data with high reliability because of the design of fully redundant controller modules, power supplies, hard disks, and cooling modules.

Integrated rack solution

• Featuring centralized power and cooling system, the integrated rack solution is an optimized green modular design for different datacenter infrastructure, computing/storage density requirement, power efficiency, best PUE, and CAPEX/OPEX reduction.

Quanta Computer Incorporated (TWSE: 2382) (Chinese: 廣達電腦; pinyin: Guǎngdá Diànnǎo) is a Taiwan-based manufacturer of notebook computers and other electronic hardware. Its customers include Apple Inc., Dell, Hewlett-Packard Inc.,^[2]Alienware, Amazon.com, Cisco, Fujitsu, Gericom, Lenovo, LG, Maxdata, Microsoft, MPC, BlackBerry Ltd, Sharp Corporation, Siemens AG, Sony, Sun Microsystems, Toshiba, Verizon Wireless, and Vizio.^{[citation needed]}

Quanta has extended its businesses into enterprise network systems, home entertainment, mobile communication, automotive electronics, and digital home markets. The company also designs, manufactures and markets GPS systems, including handheld GPS, in-car GPS, Bluetooth GPS and GPS with other positioning technologies.^[3]

Quanta Computer was announced as the original design manufacturer (ODM) for the XO-1 by the One Laptop per Child project on December 13, 2005, and took an order for one million laptops as of February 16, 2007.^[4] In October 2008, it was announced that Acer would phase out Quanta from the production chain, and instead outsource manufacturing of 15 million Aspire One netbooks to Compal Electronics.

In 2011, Quanta designed servers in conjunction with Facebook as part of the Open Compute Project.^[5]

It was estimated that Quanta had a 31% worldwide market share of notebook computers in the first quarter of 2008.^[6]

History[edit]

The firm was founded in 1988 by Barry Lam, a Shanghai-born businessman who grew up in Hong Kong and received his education in Taiwan, with a starting capital of less than $900,000.^[7][8] A first notebook prototype was completed in November 1988, with factory production beginning in 1990.^[8]

Throughout the 1990s, Quanta established contracts with Apple Computers and Gateway, among others, opening an after-sales office in California in 1991 and another one in Augsburg, Germany in 1994. In 1996, Quanta signed a contract with Dell, making the firm Quanta's largest customer at the time.^[8]

In 2014, Quanta ranked 409th on Fortune's Global 500 list.^[9] 2016 is the strongest period with it being in 326.^[10] In 2020, Quanta dropped to rank 377.^[11]

Products[edit]

• Apple Watch^[12]
• Apple Macbook Air^[13]
• Apple Macbook Pro^[14]

Quanta Network & Wireless Cards Driver Download For Windows 7

Subsidiaries[edit]

Subsidiaries of Quanta Computer include:^[15]

• Quanta Cloud Technology Inc - provider of data center hardware.
• FaceVsion Technology Inc - telecommunications, webcam, and electronic products.
• CloudCast Technology Inc - information software and data processing - liquidated in February 2017.
• TWDT Precision Co., Ltd. (TWDT) - 55% ownership, which was sold in June 2016.

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Techman Robot Inc.[edit]

Techman Robot Inc. is a cobot manufacturer founded by Quanta in 2016. It is based in Taoyuan's Hwa Ya Technology Park. It is the world's second largest manufacturer of cobots after Universal Robots.^[16]

Major facilities[edit]

Shanghai, China (QSMC)This was the first mainland China plant built by Quanta Computer, in December 2000, to focus on OEM and ODM production and currently employs nearly 30,000 people. Huangjian Tang, Quanta's Chairman for China, manages seven major plants, F1 to F7, two large warehouses, H1 and H2, and the Q-BUS Research and Development facility.

Chongqing, China (QCMC)Built in April 2010. Quanta Computer invested and built a plant in Chongqing, China, the third plant built by Quanta Computer in China.

Court case[edit]

In 2008, LG Electronics sued Quanta Computer company for patent infringement, when Quanta used Intel components with non Intel components.^[17] The Supreme Court of the United States ruled that LG, who had a patent sharing deal with Intel did not have the right to sue, because Quanta, being a consumer, did not need to abide by patent agreements with Intel and LG.

References[edit]

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3. ^'QUANTA COMPUTER INC (2382:Taiwan): Company Description - Businessweek'. investing.businessweek.com. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
4. ^Nystedt, Dan. 'One million OLPC laptop orders confirmed'. Network World. Archived from the original on 15 May 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2011.
5. ^Hachman, Mark (7 April 2011). 'Facebook Launches 'Open Compute Initiative' Servers'. PC Magazine.
6. ^'Quanta remained number one notebook OEM in 1Q08, says DisplaySearch'. DigiTimes. 27 June 2008.
7. ^'Quanta Computer'. Forbes. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
8. ^ ^abc'History of Quanta Computer Inc. – FundingUniverse'. www.fundinguniverse.com. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
9. ^中時新聞網. '全球500大 鴻海擠進32名 - 財經要聞'. 中時新聞網 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2020-10-30.
10. ^Fortune. 'Global 500 2016'. Retrieved 2020-11-23.
11. ^'《財星》全球500強出爐9台企上榜 台積電純益率奪冠'. 蘋果新聞網 (in Chinese). Retrieved 2020-10-30.
12. ^Ali, Zara (2017-07-25). 'Apple Watch Series 3 Likely To Launch in Fall 2017 Raising Revenue for Quanta Computer'. Wccftech. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
13. ^Truta, Filip. '12-inch MacBook Air Launching in Q1, Quanta Ramps Up Manufacturing'. softpedia. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
14. ^'Macbook Pro lifts Quanta's Q1 revenue, but forex losses hit bottom line - Nikkei Asian Review'. Nikkei Asian Review. Retrieved 2018-02-01.
15. ^'(English Translation of Consolidated Financial Statements and Report Originally Issued in Chinese) QUANTA COMPUTER INC. AND ITS SUBSIDIARIES CONSOLIDATED INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS'(PDF). Quanta Computer Inc. p. 12. Archived(PDF) from the original on 1 October 2018. Retrieved 1 October 2018.
16. ^Huang, Elaine. 'This Made-in-Taiwan Robot Is Drawing International Attention'. english.cw.com.tw. CommonWealth. Retrieved 5 August 2019.
17. ^LII Staff (7 January 2008). 'Quanta Computer, Inc. v. LG Electronics, Inc. (06-937)'. Retrieved 16 January 2017.

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