RE: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-25 Thread cebuano
Yeah, this company even has its own stack of certs starting with HCNE, HCSE, and last but not least, HCIE!!! Yikes, some more paper Certs to hang on the wall :-> But on the serious note, if I can get this 3640 for $500 and load a Cisco IOS, who cares?? Heck, buy the 3680. Elmer -Original Mes

Re: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-25 Thread Thomas E. Lawrence
See what happens when American companies send their manufacturing to China? All those products sure look like their Cisco counterparts. Why pay Cisco's price when you can buy the Chinese knock off and save a ton of money? What was it Lenin said? When it comes time to hang the Capitalists, they wi

RE: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-25 Thread Mark W. Odette II
Just idle curiosity of their retail pricing structure. mark -Original Message- From: cebuano [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 1:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670] Yeah, this company even has its own stack of certs sta

Re: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-26 Thread Gaz
Not sure whether Cisco could close them down if they wanted. Wouldn't like to be on Cisco's side as they roll in to China. They can probably do enough business in their own part of the worls to keep the family fed and watered. Do China abide by everyone elses laws? Dunno... ""Priscilla Op

Re: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-26 Thread Peter van Oene
They are currently doing on the order of 4 billion in annual sales IIRC. At 05:42 PM 7/26/2002 +, David Armstrong wrote: >Does anyone remember what happened to Compaq when they reverse engineered >IBM's PCs and then sold their products at significantly lower prices? > >Has anyone seen this co

Re: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-26 Thread David Armstrong
Does anyone remember what happened to Compaq when they reverse engineered IBM's PCs and then sold their products at significantly lower prices? Has anyone seen this company listed on a US stock exchange? I wouldn't be surprised if these guys did very well. David Armstrong Message Posted at:

Re: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-26 Thread Priscilla Oppenheimer
Tom Scott wrote: > > > BTW what does "wei" mean in futurewei and huawei? Thief? Copy Cat? One who has no innate creativity and takes ideas from others? ;-) Seriously, they can't possibly have stolen the actual IOS code or Cisco would close them down. Most of the protocols are industry standard

Re: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-28 Thread Ronald James
ladies & gents!! before u made any attacking or too exaggerated messages to other countries, please consider!! otherwise u are violate the states is the most freedom countries in the world i never tried their products but if it runs the same cisco ios or something copying cisco's design, ju

Re: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-28 Thread Michael L. Williams
Regarding HSRP and EIGRP, I did a google search on "EIGRP site:huawei.com" and the first page returned was no longer on Huawei's website, but you could pull up the Google cached version, and it lists EIGRP as a supported protocol. Other than that single reference, the only other reference to EIGR

Re: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-28 Thread Michael L. Williams
I have to say that 30-40% off of Cisco's *retail* prices isn't really that great of a deal I'd just as soon buy the Cisco through my employer and get their discount Mike W. "Ron Tan" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Hi all, > > In US the company is call Futurewei, you c

Re: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-28 Thread Michael L. Williams
EVERYTHING in China has ties to the government... it's called communism.. Mike W. "Peter van Oene" wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > These guys actually are a major player in the asian market space. They > apparently reverse engineer products and push them to market at very low

Re: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-28 Thread Ronald James
please, please, don't make any attacking comments to other countries before u find out the truth, if this is a copy action against cisco, just escalate to cisco, that simple !! it seems to me your discussion is a bit off now, please do focus on our concern and suggest constructive advices. ""Mic

RE: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670]

2002-07-28 Thread Paul Borghese
ly 28, 2002 12:22 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Anyone tried Huawei Routers ? [7:49670] please, please, don't make any attacking comments to other countries before u find out the truth, if this is a copy action against cisco, just escalate to cisco, that simple !! it seems to me your discu