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Cisco Spending Millions of Dollars Secretly Purchasing New Juniper Products
FrankPoole (1736680) writes According to a CRN investigative report, Cisco has been spending millions of dollars over several years to secretly purchase Juniper Networks' products, including new QFabric and MX series routers, for use in its 'competitive analysis lab,' where the products are tested and reverse engineered. According to the report, some of the Juniper products purchased by Cisco were still in beta and not yet commercially released. In addition, CRN discovered that a main source for Cisco to obtain these Juniper products was, ironically, a company called Torrey Point Group, a fast-growing VAR that was awarded Juniper's Part of the Year in 2011.
Perhaps they resell the products.
1. Get Juniper routers
2. Put custom firmware with NSA backdoor
3. ?
4. Profit
Juniper products are with few exceptions a million times better
Be more specific.
Okay... 1,070,204.982 times better - with a few exceptions.
When our name is on the back of your car, we're behind you all the way!
I bet BlackBerry never had one.