Huawei has had less success cracking the market for enterprise routers, where Cisco still holds 81.8 percent of the market in the fourth quarter of last year, compared with fourth- placed Huawei’s 2.5 percent share, according to Redwood City, California-based Dell’Oro Group.

Huawei aims to double annual sales at its enterprise group to $4 billion this year, from $2 billion last year, He said. Within three to five years sales will more than triple again to between $15 and $20 billion, He said. Huawei’s Roese said the company is moving 10,000 employees into the new enterprise division, including 6,000 research and development staff. That’s about 9 percent of the company’s 110,000 staff worldwide.