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

  • From: Alexander Bochmann
  • Date: Wed Aug 17 10:04:48 2005 
...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.