[83509] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: India cites security concerns, blocks Huawei bid to expand their indian ops
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alexander Bochmann)
Wed Aug 17 10:02:17 2005
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:59:59 +0200
From: Alexander Bochmann <ab@lists.gxis.de>
To: "'NANOG'" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20050817130509.0BE86398C5@equinox.DOMINO.ORG>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
...on Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 02:05:07PM +0100, Neil J. McRae wrote:
> Tony Finch 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.
> A large number of optical networks across the globe are now Huawei,
> we are using their IP CPE (17xx/26xx/36xx/72xx replacements) in a number
> of products and these devices have stood up to significant security
> testing [including DDOS].
I assume that an Indian intelligence agency would
be more concerned about things like hidden remote
control or data collection services on the systems.
Alex.
