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Chinese Man Gets 30 Months For Fake Cisco Sales
alphadogg writes "A Chinese man was sentenced to two-and-a-half years in a US prison this week for trafficking in counterfeit Cisco Systems gear. Yongcai Li, 33, will also have to pay the networking company nearly $800,000 in restitution after being the conduit for hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of counterfeit computer hardware, the FBI said Friday. Prosecutors said he procured the fake gear in China and then sent it to co-conspirators in the US. His alleged co-conspirators have not been charged. Li was arrested by FBI agents on Jan. 9, 2009, in Las Vegas — while the annual Consumer Electronics Show was taking place there. Two years ago, the FBI claimed to have seized more than $78 million worth of counterfeit equipment in more than 400 seizures."
Why the hell is Cisco still in business, again?
Because most network managers, network admins, and their directors are a bunch of lazy whiners who haven't had to actually competitively bid out their hardware purchases for over 2 decades. Go ahead, I dare you, put a couple of Junipers in your all proprietary Cisco network and listen to unending howl of whining about how Junipers don't have Cisco proprietary features. Then show the network whiners the better functional abilities of the Junipers and watch religious zealots spew networking hypocrisy. Then show them how much more cost effective non-Cisco equipment is and watch the rationalizations begin. Dilbert is milk and cookies compared to networking admins, managers, and directors.