Company Summary
• Built in 1996 and specializing in networking and communications till now
• Located in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong
• About 1300 employees in Feb. 2006, including close to 100 R&D engineers and about 60 QC staff
• Registered capital is USD6.25 million
• R&D, manufacturing and selling all products, over 100 product models independently, including wireless, router, switch, ADSL and so on
• No.1 market share holder in mainland China with a number of products taking more than 50% market share
• ISO 9001:2000 issued by SGS United Kingdom LTD
Sales Volume Growth
Sales Volume (Million Units)
year
12
Average Sales Volume
Growth Rate of 50% per year!
R&D Experience
• 10 years R&D experience, developed TP-LINK first ISA LAN card independently in 1996
• Developing all software and hardware for all our products independently
• All from first-class universities, such as Tsinghua University
• Many main engineers have served TP-LINK more than 3 years
• Our chief engineer has more than 15 years working experience for networking and communications
100 experienced engineers
40 software engineers
R&D Capability
• Developed up to 200 person*month R&D project including software and hardware
• Software developing level is better than or equal to that of Sercomm or Cybertan( fed back from our chipset suppliers)
• Well-equipped R&D laboratory with world-class testing equipments, such as Agilent for wireless, Spirent SmartBits and ADSL Line Simulator
• Effective development managing process
• Effective R&D testing system and up to 20 testing engineers
• Most first designed PCBs pass the certifications, like FCC and CE
• Continuously introduce new products for the worldwide market
Employees:
from 100 now to 150 in one year
New product technologies :
VOIP, VPN, multimedia, high-end switches
Satisfy the fast-growing
international
OEM business
R&D Plan
Chipset Supplier Partnerships
• Close and strategic partner relationship with world-class main chipset vendors, like Broadcom, Marvell, Atheros, Vitesse, Realtek and Ralink
• Direct customer of Atheros and Realtek
• Newest product R&D information, first-time samples and demo boards
• Open software source codes
• Monthly visit, close high executive contact
• Direct engineer contact
Newest Products and Customizing Capability
• Ability to launch the newest products under our R&D capability and supports from our chipset vendors
• Our own reliable software source codes
• Smooth and fast software porting between different hardware platforms
• Special R&D and sales resources for OEM business
• OEM business experience: more than 5 years
• Experienced hardware and software customization according to customer requirements
• Good after-sales service
Supply Chain System• Most suppliers from the Pearl River Delta Region,
which is the primary source of electronic products in China
• Our suppliers should be large scale, good quality
and able to supply an extra 20% to 40% of components immediately
• Most electronic components are from Taiwanese or
Japanese companies, including resistance and capacitance
• On time delivery: more than 90%
• Most of them are long-term and stable partners of TP-LINK
Factory
• Area: 16, 000 square meters
• Employees: more than 1000
• 27 SMT machines, 13 SMT production lines
• Daily production capacity of 20, 000 for NIC,
10,000 for Switch, 12,000 for Router, 8,000 for Wireless products
• ISO 9001:2000 issued by SGS United Kingdom LTD
Quality Control System
• Employees: approximately 60
• Effective quality control system
• Complies with ISO 9001:2000
• Advanced testing equipments, such as Smartbits 2000 and ND5000E
• Full check and FQA (Final Quality Assurance) for all delivery
• First testing pass rate: more than 98%
• FQA pass rate: more than 97%
OEM Business in TP-LINK
• 10% of total sales
• Has become one of the most important businesses in TP-LINK
• Led directly by our company chairman