Many Companies Share Concerns About Chinese Network Equipment, Strand Says

Concerns about Chinese-made network equipment are widespread in the U.S., Strand Consult said in a report released Tuesday. Concern isn’t “limited to national governments and the military intelligence operations,” Strand said: “Nor is the concern confined to telecom operators which build and run networks. It is the small, medium, and large enterprises that use networks which fear that their valuable data will be surveilled, sabotaged, or stolen by actors associated with the Chinese government and military. Consequently, it is the clients of telecom operators which push to restrict Chinese-made equipment from networks.”