Thread regarding Windstream Corp. layoffs

stay away from huwei 5g also

"Contracts are very clear. If you have Huawei devices in your network then you cannot carry US government traffic. Windstream is violating that."

I thought the US government only just recently started banning Huawei gear - like the last several months. I'm not sure it's even official yet.

"Contracts are very clear. If you have Huawei devices in your network then you cannot carry US government traffic. Windstream is violating that."

Sounds like you should report this and claim the whistle blower money then.

Contracts are very clear. If you have Huawei devices in your network then you cannot carry US government traffic. Windstream is violating that.

Cisco has the same security exploits and much worse recently discovered. But Cisco isn't in China.

There are allot the federal government will uncover. They gave the money and it wasn't used for the purpose intended. So yeah. The have tried to get over the federal government

Are they not already being investigated by the FCC

Only a small part of the EarthLink CLEC footprint used that chinesium junk and they are only transport nodes all layer 1 nothing to worry about from a end user standpoint. Now if you don't understand why from what I said above then I can't help you further but these devices are only layer 1.

If you are an ilec customer you are all internal only we only use 3rd party for transport (again later 1).

Also security and privacy is a responsibility of the end user. If you are sending senestive information across a public network ( WE or not) you must ensure the proper encryption is in place from data originated by your network.