[AusNOG] Huawei Enterprise kit

[Paul Gear]

Hi Chris,

Personally, I'm more worried about their software quality control, 
especially on the security side.  Have a listen to 
http://risky.biz/RB250 - their security flaws sound like the types 
affecting home NASs and one-man PHP coding shops, not enterprise-grade 
suppliers.

That podcast was nearly two years ago.  Personally, I'm skeptical about 
their ability to turn around such a poor security culture in two years.  
Your opinion may vary.

Regards,
Paul

P.S. Note that HP Networking's Comware gear (i.e. not the ProCurve 
range) contains H3C (Huawei/3Com partnership) roots.  I'm personally a 
lot more comfortable with that than with Huawei on their own.  At least 
they have established security teams and defined processes for issuing 
advisories.

On 07/07/2014 08:55 AM, Chris Gibbs wrote:
>
> Hey all,
>
> After recently listening to a packet pusher podcast on Huawei 
> (sponsored by Huawei), I thought it might be a good topic to drag up 
> again. 
> http://packetpushers.net/show-193-huawei-cloudengine-cloudfabric-sponsored/ 
>
>
> I know ASIO recommended that NBNCo ban Huawei from bidding. Maybe 
> justifiable for the core/PE but does the same ban hold true for 
> customer and enterprise kit? Not being 'privy' to ASIO recommendations 
> I'm not sure either way.
>
> Being government, I think we can request from the ASD generalised 
> information but their current Evaluated products list doesn't contain 
> any products from Huawei. http://www.asd.gov.au/infosec/epl/index.php
>
> In the CPE and enterprise markets, what are people experience and 
> general opinion of their routing and switching products?
>
> We are currently an all Cisco shop but due to pressures on our budget 
> have been reviewing this decision and testing out kit from Juniper and 
> HP. Just wondering if we should be testing out Huawei kit too.
>
> Cheers,
>
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