I geuss no-one believes in buying American made anymore. No wonder our economy is as bad as it is. I had to say it.
Please send all flames to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Alex Lei [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 26, 2002 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Huawei routers - a.k.a. futurewei.com [7:49778] Groupstudy, I'd be very very surprised if Huawei violated Cisco's rights, simply because Huawei is the largest networking gear company in China, if they did anything suspicious, Cisco would surely find them. From what I know, Huawei is a pretty ethical company for a multi national corporation, and they sponsor a lot of research projects in Chinese universities. For the question in an earlier thread, Hua means China, Wei is effort or achievement. Alex Ron Tan wrote: > > Hi group, > > Huawei routers were introduced into the local market sometime > in the past 2 > months in an asian networking exhibition called "Communicasia". > > That's where I met the Huawei distributor whom had volunteered > to provide a > demo set for me to play with (myself from an international mnc, > has current > projects to revamp our LAN/WAN structure) and guess what, my > boss is > requesting me to have a look at their routers ! > > The day the router came into the office, I noticed that there > were no > manuals provided. After meddling with the router, I believed > that there was > no need to request for one in the first place ! There will be no > requirements to load the box with IOS, it is IOS (with a bit of > differences). The whole thing was CLONED ! > > I'm not too sure about reversed-engineering but more on how > Cisco is going > to protect their market dominance. With boxes selling for > 30-40% cheaper, I > guess lots of ppl will be rushing off to buy it. > > Guess might as well I pack my bags for China to get a new set of > certifications. > > Ron Tan Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=49808&t=49778 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
