Cisco denies involvement in "Prism gate" says it hasn't monitored China communications

Yesterday, Cisco denied its involvement in the Prism Gate, saying the company's network was not involved in the project and would not be customized for the project.

It was previously reported that the "Prism gate" Snowden revealed that the U.S. National Security Service through Cisco routers to monitor Chinese networks and computers. Cisco has been involved in the construction of almost all of China's big web projects. Cisco said it did not monitor the communications of ordinary citizens or government departments anywhere in China or anywhere else in the world. Cisco sells the same equipment around the world, as well as in China and the United States, and does not make equipment customization for the aforementioned projects.

Cisco is currently involved in the construction of almost all of China's large-scale network projects, involving government, customs, postal services, finance, railways, civil aviation, medical, military and other key sectors of the network construction, as well as China Telecom, Unicom and other telecommunications operators network infrastructure. Among them, China Telecom 163 and China Unicom 169 are the most important two backbone networks, both carrying more than 80% of China's internet traffic.

Although Cisco denies involvement in "prism door", since ZTE, Huawei in the United States suffered from security investigations to the "prism door", but also to the domestic information security thinking. Awareded, director of the Institute of Information Security, said that our country in the strengthening of the independent it ecosystem training, in some important areas must be made to replace the domestic, so as not to leave security risks.