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Cisco Spending Millions of Dollars Secretly Purchasing New Juniper Products

Posted by timothy on from the just-making-sure-they're-not-stealing-our-ideas dept.

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.

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  1. And your point is what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does anyone really think Juniper doesnt't purchase Cisco gear in a similar fashion? Corporate behavior like this shouldn't come as a surprise to anyone.

  2. Re:But didn't their patents protect them? ;D by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    If it wasn't for legal reverse engineering, most of us would be sitting in front of $2000 IBM PCs.