Google, Amazon, Microsoft Go East For Network Gear

theodp writes "Wired's Cade Metz has the scoop on the move away from U.S. network equipment stalwarts, calling it of the best-kept secrets in Silicon Valley. 'Cloud computing is an arms race,' writes Metz. 'The biggest web companies on earth are competing to see who can deliver their services to the most people in the shortest amount of time at the lowest cost. And the cheapest arms come straight from Asia.' Or, as Joyent's Howard Wu puts it, 'It's kind of like buying couches. If you buy one, you go to a retail store. If you buy 10,000 couches, you go straight to the factory.'"

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I expect to see some typical comment about the

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I expect to see some typical comment about the possibility of foreign entities being persuaded, coerced, bribed, or forced by a Government agency of the local government to modify the design of the hardware in order to have a backdoor for spying. I'm sure these big corporations inspect their hardware thoroughly. Anyways why does everyone paint eastern governments as entirely evil.