Fake Cisco equipment bust

Anything is possible as an old man said once... "in impossible there is a possible"

How? The infamous "third shift". If you are a manufacturer in China with the Cisco contract, you can produce Cisco equipment for part of the day and fake Cisco through the night. You already have lots of hardware and packaging from Cisco. All you need to do is insert cheaper memory, etc. -- oh, and bribe the local officials.

This is why we have tainted drugs, toothpaste, etc. Our companies are saving money for their CEOs & stockholders, not employing workers from their own country and all the while acting surprised that such a thing could happen.

eBay will kick them off if there are enough complaints. Or when they start to negatively impact eBay's bottom line.

S.G. wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Very interesting - I had never heard of the "third shift" Quite true what you say about CEOs. I work for a telecommunications company and every day we outsource more and more, to the point where if I didn't work there I wouldn't be a customer.

For more details, look at

I'm curious, wouldn't Cisco know about such a thing and want to do everything possible to protect against this? Don't these plants go around the clock? If not, it seems like Cisco would have personal stationed there that would see this kind of activity.

I just don't understand why we're so asleep towards this kind of behaviour. I really don't think people care.

Thats not the only vector. Take the most counterfeited thing which is probably the WIC-1DSU-T1 card. Cisco's list price on it is $1000. It probably costs

S.G. wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:

Wow, thanks for the articles. The second one is not so interesting even though it refers specifically to Cisco. The first one though, gives a more complete vision of what really is going on. So it looks like american manufacturers are outsourcing. In the process are moving jobs overseas driven by the greed to ever make more money and give their CEO even fatter paycheques (who is really worth $200 million for a year's work???)And... they're getting beaten at their own game by the crooked chinese. Well, even then they won't stop.. so go figure. Know why? GREED! that's why. Bring back the jobs and control production. That's what they should do. Me feel sorry because you've taken my job away but you are now facing unfair competition?? Not me. Boo hoo! too bad for you.