The competition between Huawei and Cisco
Review the 10 year’s story of Huawei and Csico, it’s easy to imagine that two companies in the congressional investiagations of their respective strategic . The north American market is the major market for Cisco, which contributed 60% of revenue, but now, the ambitious chinese competitor “Huawei” is trying to break into the market.in the industry point of view, the incident is a continuation of the ten years war between Huawei and Ciscon.
The war of intellectual property right
On October 11, in the United States, Cisco claims that huawei in 2003 copyright dispute between the parties to make false statements, and open a document in a sealed state before part of the public report, cisco said: on the basis of accurate comments and character space form, not only show that huawei contact the cisco code, more means the electronic code is copied and inserted into the huawei's code.
This recalled dispute of intellectual property right, began in 2003,which claimed the American sub company of Huawei “Future Wei”embezzle part of the cisco IOS (Internet operating system source code. Used in its Quidway router and switch operating systems, to form at least 5 cisco patents infringement.
From the challenge of huawei, forcing the cisco China overall prices decreased an average of 15% in 2001 and has $2001 after plummet this threat, with the development of the international market, huawei has spread from China to the world, even as American stronghold ,In June 2002,huawei sub company “Future Wei”, has begun to old rivals in the commercial market with cisco 3 com formal talks to set up joint venture company
In the same year, huawei series data communications products, all for the first time in June in telecom equipment exhibition held at the Atlanta, huawei data display products, performance and cisco products, but the price is 20% lower than their opponents to 50%, even in the mainstream U.S. financial and professional media published challenging advertising: they are the only different is the price of advertising background, is the golden gate bridge in San Francisco, and cisco logo is the golden gate bridge.
In the middle of December, 2002, cisco's global vice President came to shenzhen, China, from the United States formally proposed huawei cisco intellectual property violations, and request the court ordered the lawsuit in early 2003, cisco, banned huawei to sell the infringing products, huawei shall be forbidden to use command line program, similar to that of the cisco operating software and asking the company to give financial compensation.
Time of July 28,2004 in the United States, the two sides reach a final settlement, termination of litigation and the claims put forward by the respective court issued on the basis of statute, terminate the cisco aweigh company litigation, cisco may not be the case again in the future civil lawsuit filed a lawsuit or by the same reason, and all legal fees litigation fees and other charges will be borne by the respective parties .
After all, from this competition of intellectual property copyright, we can see that the Cisco treat Huawei as the biggest enemy in the global market, even in the home of Cisco, United States. That is not the only battle between these two competitors, what other competition happened? We shall see that later.
To be continued
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