[AusNOG] Huawei Enterprise kit

[Skeeve Stevens]

I think that vendor selection should always be more about just cost.

You should be considering:

- Available skill pool of engineers
- Vendor support, training, etc
- Distribution and supply held
- Partners and expertise
- Quality and compatibility

We considered becoming a Huawei partner for networking kit at one point as
we were working with them on another project (STB).

Their kit looked pretty ok.  Reasonable price... but they were the easiest
to deal with, choose a blah distributor (at the time), and their training
courses cost a significant amount... and one rule I operate on... I don't
ever pay to sell a vendors product... It is their job to find the right
partners and skill them up.

I also felt that the market in Australia wasn't that tolerant to Huawei at
the time.

This was 2 years ago, so a lot (most likely) may have changed.






...Skeeve

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On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Chris Gibbs <Chris.Gibbs at gosford.nsw.gov.au>
wrote:

>  Hey all,
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> 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/
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> 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.
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> 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
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> In the CPE and enterprise markets, what are people experience and general
> opinion of their routing and switching products?
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> 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.
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> Cheers,
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