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I was really skeptical when I saw Huawei racks/cabinets being sold/promoted at the HK OpenStack Summit years ago.

I'd feel really uncomfortable running my 'private' cloud on that gear.

I wonder what state-benefits Alibaba is providing upstream given their reach these days.

If you think "promoting" is bad, try giving out free hardware.

I toured datacenters in Malaysia and the amount of Huawei equipment is unbelievable. All major telco DC are using them.

I asked around and most are saying that Huawei gave away their hardware for almost no initial cost. Huawei even supply their engineer to migrate away from Cisco/Juniper.

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