Profile: AsiaInfo Holdings Inc (ASIA.O)

Asiainfo Holdings, Inc. (AsiaInfo) provides telecommunications software solutions and information technology (IT) security products and services in China. The Company's operations are organized into two divisions: AsiaInfo Technologies (China) Inc. (AsiaInfo Technologies) and Lenovo-AsiaInfo Technologies, Inc. (Lenovo-AsiaInfo). AsiaInfo Technologies encompasses the Company's traditional telecommunications business and provides software and solutions to China's telecommunications carriers. Lenovo-AsiaInfo provides IT security products and services. During the year ended December 31, 2008, approximately 83.7% of the Company’s total revenue was contributed by AsiaInfo Technologies, while the remaining revenue was contributed by Lenovo-AsiaInfo. On April 9, 2008, the Company acquired Beijing AKS, which provides firewall software.

AsiaInfo Technologies (China) Inc.

AsiaInfo Technologies' suite of solutions includes business and operation support systems, service application solutions and network infrastructure solutions. The products and services the Company offers the telecommunications industry include various software product suites, each of which is given the name Open because the software installed is designed with open architecture to facilitate further development and customization for specific purposes. Asiainfo typically integrates a combination of these products, together with its services, into customized solutions to address individual customer needs.

The Company's core business support systems/operating support systems (BSS/OSS) offerings include billing solutions, customer relationship management (CRM) and business intelligence systems (BI). Its BSS/OSS product suites include OpenBilling Product Suite, OpenCRM Product Suite, OpenBOSS Product Suite, OpenBI Product Suite and OpenPRM Product Suite.

AsiaInfo's network infrastructure solutions include network access and backbone infrastructure planning, design and implementation for telecommunications and Internet service providers. These services include technical training for the Company's customers, as well as professional maintenance and support services. Together with these professional services, the Company offers Internet Protocol (IP) and business operation network management solutions through its AsiaInfo NetXpert (NetXpert) and AsiaInfo OpenXpert (OpenXpert) product suites. NetXpert is a carrier class data and IP network management solution. OpenXpert is an integrated telecommunications network management system.

The Company designs and provides a series of applications that enable telecommunications operators and service providers to offer services, such as, short message service (SMS), mobile e-mail, mobile entertainment and mobile e-commerce. These applications involve licensed third-party software that it customize or integrate with its software to provide individualized solutions. Specific products include AsiaInfo Mail Center (Mail Center), AsiaInfo Spam Patrol (Spam Patrol), AsiaInfo Net Disk (Net Disk), AsiaInfo Internet Short Messaging Gateway (AIISMG) and AsiaInfo Device Management Platform (OMA).

Lenovo-AsiaInfo Technologies, Inc.

Lenovo-AsiaInfo offerings focus mainly on firewall and virtual private network technologies (VPN). AsiaInfo’s security applications are fixed configuration products with varying performance characteristics that offer integrated firewall, VPN and denial of service protection capabilities. Its security applications can be deployed to provide small to medium-sized businesses with secure Internet access and communication, both locally and from remote locations. The Company offers firewall and VPN solutions that protect throughout the network, including at Internet gateways, gateways to sensitive internal networks, and at client devices. Product offerings include the Power V series and the Super V series firewalls, which are designed to meet the throughput requirements of companies of all sizes.

The Company’s firewall products include on-Chip-SRAM to ensure access of processor chips to data, and multiple IP streaming classifications, parallel streaming, security module component technology and a hardware-based search algorithm to achieve multi-engine parallel wire-speed filtering. Its firewall products also include the Lenovo Firewall Redundant Protocol to monitor the firewall service. In addition to its security products, the Company also offers various IT security services, including consulting, implementation, management and training services.

The Company competes with Amdocs, Digital China, Huawei, Linkage, Neusoft, Topsec and Cisco.