Same for Huawei. https://www.theverge.com/2018/3/26/17164226/fcc-proposal-huawei-zte-us-netwo... https://www.forbes.com/sites/jeanbaptiste/2018/04/19/analyst-chinas-huawei-t... https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/17/technology/huawei-trade-war.html I don't think I would recommend either in todays political climate..... -----Original Message----- From: NANOG <nanog-bounces@nanog.org> On Behalf Of Suresh Ramasubramanian Sent: Friday, April 20, 2018 7:35 AM To: Colton Conor <colton.conor@gmail.com>; NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: China Showdown Huawei vs ZTE Ah. ZTE is in a spot of trouble right about now. http://www.scmp.com/tech/article/2142557/zte-calls-us-government-ban-extreme... On 20/04/18, 5:58 PM, "NANOG on behalf of Colton Conor" <nanog-bounces@nanog.org on behalf of colton.conor@gmail.com> wrote: Of the two large Chinese Vendors, which has the better network operating system? Huawei is much larger that ZTE is my understanding, but larger does not always mean better. Both of these manufactures have switches and routers. I doubt we will use their routing products anytime soon, but the switching products with MPLS are what we are exploring. Price wise both of these vendors seem to have 10G MPLS capable switches that are a 1/4 of the price of a Cisco or Juniper wants to charge. On the Huawei side looks like the S6720 is a fit. On the ZTE side, it looks like the ZXR10 5960 Series is a fit. Has anyone had experience with either of these two switches? How do they compare? Also, for each independent brand, is their switching network operating system the same as their routing network operating system that their routers run?