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U.S. considers order to bar Huawei, ZTE purchases
- StudentStuff 8y agoThis all circles back to the fact that none of the base station manufacturers have an open source stack that any nation can trust to be reasonably secure. Instead, carrier networks are a hodgepodge of various vendors equipment, many of which have terrible security histories (looking at you Juniper!). Its reasonable to be suspicious of non-domestic vendors, but the fix isn't to consider Ericsson or Nokia (formerly Alcatel-Lucent) secure, but rather to put this code in the public purview such that non-employees can bugfix, extend and enhance our communications networks.
- Nokinside 8y agoIf Huawei and ZTE are shut out from US markets, Ericsson and Nokia divide the US market between the two. Good news for them. Base stations are not the most critical parts in mobile networks. Using Huawei's base stations would be probably OK. Several countries and operators have inspected and monitored Huawei's hardware and traffic they generate for over ten years and nothing has been found. Buying operating services and the most critical hardware and software from Huawei is different question.