NextHop Technologies has opened an office in the China Life Building in Beijing. The new office will house a team of local business, application engineering and technical support staff dedicated to helping support customers in the region for the company's routing and switching products.

Officially opening the new office today will be NextHop president and CEO Ed Cluss and Tim Bean, vice president of engineering.

"We are tremendously excited about opening our Beijing office. Our experience with our China customers, including Huawei, has been positive and we look forward to providing strong support for our current customers and doing more business to help our ODM and OEM customers bring reliable, scalable and cost effective routing and switching solutions to market in the shortest time possible," said Mr. Cluss.