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Why are you forgetting about Cisco, Juniper (now HPE), and Arista - all of which are US companies?

Also, why is Nokia closer to the US than Ericsson?

Cisco, Juniper, and Arista make carrier hardware like cell phone radios and controllers and traditional telephone network switches?

While there's probably a little overlap in all of their product lines with Nokia (I mean Nokia makes simple ethernet switches so that carriers can buy all their gear from one vendor), most of those companies don't really compete in the same markets as Nokia

Cisco isn't selling into T-Mobile and AT&T's customer networks. Nokia isn't selling into JPMorgan's or Walmart's IP networks

Nokia also makes complex backbone carrier-grade network switches based on the Intellectual Property portfolio they acquired from Nortel.

That kind of stuff is the closest that they would come to compete with the others cited. They're all trying to get into datacenter gear, but Cisco specifically has gotten out of various levels of service provider network gear (they sold off all their cable network stuff, for example) which is where Nokia, Ericsson, etc all make their bread and butter

Cisco is still in the SP networking space, but they’ve been pushing heavily into datacenter and core routers generally (vs. edge which are more common in SP networks).

Granted, I only worked as a lowly dev in the Cisco SP routing team, and I haven’t been keeping up to speed with their work.

> As the other global options for network hardware

Hence my comment :)

Nokia does in fact compete with Cisco and the others, but less so than in the past.

Because context is important and we're discussing Nokia and/or Nvidia in this particular thread.

Re-read the comment I replied to. I wasn’t the one who brought up how Nokia is the closest company to the US for network hardware.

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