China Showdown Huawei vs ZTE

Tue Apr 24 16:41:50 UTC 2018

Saku,

I do feel bad for US Based consumers as I am one of them! Overall, I find
Huawei's solutions to be 1/3 the price of the equivalent Juniper/Cisco. The
only the stopping me from buying them is the fear of it being hacked due to
the media.

Like the S6720-EI is MEF certified, runs MPLS, and is $3500 with a lifetime
warranty. Please let me know if anyone else comes close to this number.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2018 at 10:31 AM, Saku Ytti <saku at ytti.fi> wrote:

> On 20 April 2018 at 16:44, Colton Conor <colton.conor at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Yes looks like they are both under pressure. I feel bad for the USA based
> > employees. I know Huawei has quite a few in Plano, Texas.
>
> Feel sorry for US based consumers. Historically protectionism always
> hurts the local economy most. By creating artificial demand on local
> products, over time local products become uncompetitive for export.
>
> I wonder, in what fundamental way Cisco and Juniper are US products,
> Huawei and ZTE Chinese products? To me it looks like Cisco has no
> development on IOS-XR outside India, components and assembly is in
> China. Shareholders are people holding Vanguard/Blackrock. What makes
> US company a US company?
>
> --
>   ++ytti
>