> And while we are at it, we should also ban US companies from providing critical infrastructure like this in Germany (and Europe). After Snowden, its clear that hardware from US vendors like Cisco should be seen as potentially compromised.[2]
Genuine question - What are the big European network infra equipment makers? You only ever hear of US and Chinese companies like Cisco and Huawei operating in this space.
Others mention Alcatel, Ericsson, Nokia. How much of their equipment is made in China? How hard would it be to compromise the manufacturing process or loading of firmware to include backdoors?
Ericsson, they had or still has the best stuff. But just like any big companies, management likes to kill the company for their own good. Early 2010s when Huawei becomes a threat to their business ( that was before Huawei was even known by general public ), stocks and earning were down, they finally woke up.
But today they are still much more expensive than Huawei, AND their bet on Intel 10nm Custom Foundry didn't help.
I don’t know of any US company making LTE or 5g hardware. I think it is mostly European. Much of the the networking hardware is US but much of all networking is Broadcom based now.
Genuine question - What are the big European network infra equipment makers? You only ever hear of US and Chinese companies like Cisco and Huawei operating in this space.