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It's not just the cable plant but also the transport gear that are the add/drop points for their OSN/OTN. I feel like the article fails to expose this. When the
by windexh8er 7y ago
It's not just the cable plant but also the transport gear that are the add/drop points for their OSN/OTN. I feel like the article fails to expose this. When the first active element in an optical network is Huawei they can choose to siphon (or worse?) optical lambdas at will.
Platforms like this are common for submarine applications: http://carrier.huawei.com/en/products/fixed-network/transmission/wdm-otn/osn8800 http://carrier.huawei.com/en/products/fixed-network/transmis...
- wbl 7y agoWhich shouldn't matter. The network is untrusted.
- late2part 7y agoMaybe. The !00g lambdas can be trivially encrypted end to end.
- windexh8er 7y agoI'd generally agree with you but network position carries a weight and value. Being at the crux of a NAP has significant "free" upside meaning that I can easily DoS any downstream on the network and subjectively block, throttle, and generally impede others at will. I can also still easily manipulate critical services such as DNS, BGP and others as well as use my position for intelligence gathering and masquerading. Just because we shouldn't trust the network doesn't mean other services have the luxury of strong crypto.