As big as Dahua has quickly become, with nearly $1 billion USD in 2013 sales, the company has a very rudimentary sales and marketing effort internationally, resting on a patchwork of low end OEMs to sell their products and struggling even to communicate in English.
Rectifying this is becoming urgent as they have an emerging hit on their hands (in HDCVI) but with their bigger domestic rival, Hikvision, rapidly responding with their own offering (HDTVI).
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