China continues to grow at leaps and bounds. In 2003, D-Link Greater China increased revenue in all major product segments, erupted in growth from the exploding broadband market, and strengthened its close alliance with China’s most dominant telecommunications company.

With this momentum, the Company continued to aggressively compete in the data communications and enterprise market segments and strengthened its leading position in the huge emerging markets of China.

The networking and broadband markets experienced further recovery and market demand continued to increase on a healthy trend. The long-term driving forces for Greater China’s data communications markets remain strong.

As the leading player in the China networking market, D-Link delivers advanced, standards-based, scalable connectivity products for the future.

In 2003, D-Link enhanced and built upon its strategic partnership with China Telecom and China Netcom, two of the world’s largest wireline service providers. China Telecom and China Netcom chose D-Link as their key, major partner for providing ADSL Customer Premise Equipment to their extensive customer bases.

Further, the partnership leverages D-Link's wireless networking, video conferencing and IP Telephony design and manufacturing expertise with the offering of value-add connectivity product bundles to China Telecom's and China Netcom's massive and growing customer bases. This strategic partnership well positions the Company for continued success through direct access to the largest customer base in the exploding broadband market of Greater China.

Leveraging the rapid growth of the expanding broadband market and the flourishing environment created under China's open door policy and reform, combined with support from government leaders and key figures from various sectors of the community, D-Link Greater China continues to drive business at a rapid pace, designing and developing connectivity concepts for the future.