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Re: India cites security concerns, blocks Huawei bid to expand their

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tony Finch)
Wed Aug 17 09:35:32 2005

Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:34:48 +0100
From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>,
	NANOG <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <87vf24gb7b.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
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On Wed, 17 Aug 2005, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> For a contrast, consider the situation in Germany.  Beginning this
> year, Germany's largest research network DFN will run on Huawei
> technology.  Not many security concerns over here, apparently.

Huawei are one of the suppliers for BT's "21cn" IP-based replacement for
the UK's telephone network.

http://www.btplc.com/News/Articles/ShowArticle.cfm?ArticleID=c15461a1-6d24-448b-8e5d-d6c967ba720c

"Ciena and Huawei have been chosen in the transmission domain to supply
the optical electronics that will convert the signals carried at high
capacity over the cables connecting the metro and core nodes."

Tony.
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