Don't worry. The US government is obviously not exporting the country's best technology and undermining national security. Those products should still meet China's software and CD manufacturing requirements, however. At 01:35 PM 6/17/97 -0500, Jon Green wrote:

NOTE: This is not intended to be serious. :)

I think we should all boycott Cisco over this (not that I'd buy their products in the first place..) Their partnership with censors of a communist regime is repugnant. Using the modern technology to build a giant brainwashing machine is very scary.

SAN JOSE, Calif. - June 17, 1997 - The Beijing Telecommunications Administration (BTA) has selected Cisco Systems' StrataCom(R) Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) switches for the city's first metropolitan-area network (MAN)....