Just in.
From the Standard:
U.S. and Canadian law enforcement authorities have seized more than US$78 million worth of counterfeit Cisco Systems networking equipment in an ongoing investigation into imports from China, the U.S. Department of Justice and other agencies announced Friday.
The coordinated operation, begun in 2005, has resulted in more than 400 seizures of Cisco hardware and labels, the DOJ said in a news release. The operation targets the illegal importation and sale of counterfeit network hardware such as routers, switches and network cards. One of the operation’s goals is to protect the public from network infrastructure failures associated with the counterfeits, the DOJ said.
“Counterfeit network hardware entering the marketplace raises significant public safety concerns and must be stopped,” Assistant Attorney General Alice Fisher of the DOJ’s Criminal Division, said in a statement. “It is critically important that network administrators in both private sector and government perform due diligence in order to prevent counterfeit hardware from being installed on their networks.”
The agencies that worked together on the operation included the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Cyber Division, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP).
$2 million worth of the bust was captured in Toronto today. No word on who exactly was selling it at this point.
[tags]Fake Cisco Gear, Chinese Cisco Gear, Operation Cisco Raider, China Cisco, CSCO[/tags]
“Counterfeit network hardware entering the marketplace raises significant public safety concerns and must be stopped,â€
huh? does the stuff work or not? is it running a current version of IOS? can i patch it? not saying that kind of stuff is ok but a significant public safety concern? does it blow up when it receives is 200 billionth SYN packet?
@CG
You know, I’d love to get more information on this haul. I think that in lieu of more information that we can safely assume that if one were to taunt happy fun ball it might explode.
I did receive a few emails where readers thought that the counterfeit hardware might actually run better. That would be a interesting test. Running benchmarks between the two.
hmmm.