New Zealand Spy Agency To Vet Network Builds, Provider Staff

Wed May 14 13:35:41 UTC 2014

On May 13, 2014, at 2:47 PM, Tony Wicks <tony at wicks.co.nz> wrote:

>> Cc: NANOG list
>> Subject: Re: New Zealand Spy Agency To Vet Network Builds, Provider Staff
>> 
>> I didn't see the NSA telling us what we had to buy are demanding advance
> approval rights on our maintenance procedures.
>> 
>> Owen
> 
> Try to get approval to land a submarine cable onto US soil using Huawei DWDM
> kit and then come back to us.

Last I looked, you were free to change out the kit on your submarine cable to anything you wanted once the cable was landed.

Owen