Cisco vs Huawei: The Backstage and of Cisco's Lawsuit Against Huawei for Infringement

Author: Sun Li, Editor-in-Chief
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Publish Date: 2003-03-01
Features: The competition between Cisco and Huawei is an inevitable battle between dominant market leaders among later competitors. Cisco leveraged its 80% market share advantage to control the proprietary protocols, refusing to transfer them to any third party, thereby establishing control and monopoly over customers and achieving a 70% gross profit margin. Other manufacturers wishing to interoperate with Cisco's systems faced potential protocol infringement issues. Once users adopted Cisco's systems, expansion could only involve selecting Cisco again, and customers had to buy whatever Cisco sold, no matter how expensive. Monopoly violated WTO principles more than infringement. The conflict between Cisco and Huawei clearly represented a clash of interests—one side prioritized customer interests to seek survival, while the other represented shareholder interests, desperately maintaining growth and prosperity to win over "capital." The outcome of this war would determine the future trend of the industry—whether one model could survive the IT winter and endure.