Eprg Framework: Submitted To: Submitted By: DR - Gauri Modwell Dhan Singh L. 132-C
Eprg Framework: Submitted To: Submitted By: DR - Gauri Modwell Dhan Singh L. 132-C
132-C
Introduction
The Samsung Group is composed of numerous international affiliated businesses, most of them
united under the Samsung brand including Samsung Electronics, the world's largest electronics
company by sales. Samsung Heavy Industries, the world's second largest shipbuilder,
Samsung Engineering was ranked 35th, Samsung C&T, 72nd in a 2009 ranking of 225 global
construction firms compiled by the Engineering News-Record, a U.S. construction journal, and
Samsung Life Insurance was ranked at 14th in a 2009 ranking of Fortune Global 500
Industries.
Samsung Group accounts for more than 20% of South Korea's total exports, and in many
domestic industries, Samsung Group is the sole monopoly dominating a single market, its
revenue as large as some countries' total GDP. In 2006, Samsung Group would have been the
35th largest economy in the world if ranked, larger than that of Argentina. The company has a
powerful influence on the country's economic development, politics, media and culture, being a
major driving force behind the Miracle on the Han River; many businesses today use its
international success as a role model.
Samsung Products
Strix Systems, a provider of wireless mesh networking, received strategic investment from
Samsung Ventures America, the US-based venture capital investment arm for Samsung Venture
Investment Corporation (SVIC).
Samsung Ventures has seen significant Wi-Fi/ WiMAX opportunities worldwide, especially in
areas of next-generation mobile broadband through wireless mesh, and wireless backhaul for 3G
and WiMAX via advanced mesh technology.
Samsung Ventures has reviewed nearly all wireless mesh products on the market, and believes
that Strix has the best solutions, especially in supporting mobility, voice, and video over wireless
mesh.