“Huawei is very widely known to be closely tied to the Chinese Communist Party and its products have repeatedly been identified in the U.S. and many other countries as a threat to national security,” the source said.
“Competition is global and a combined HPE-Juniper is a stronger bulwark against that, against Huawei. It will be the only U.S.-based company that provides the entire technology stack that Huawei do.”
Huawei and HPE both declined comment when reached. Huawei has long-denied that its tech is used by China to conduct surveillance on the West.
Two sources told Fortune they were baffled by Loomer’s intervention.
