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Chinese CISCO Switches - FBI concerns

I just recently read an article talking about FBI concerns about counterfiet CISCO Network switches made in China , sold by the Gold/Silver Partners of CISCO to US Federal government agencies.This information was based on a presentation made by the FBI on an investigation into the incident wherein this fraud came to light.Now whether there is a hidden objective behind this or not is noy yet known. The switches have been sold to numeorous government agencies. Now this can be a real concern in India also.Now the question is when these sales are executed through the Gold/Silver partners of CISCO, how does the government check this whether these are OEM certified or look alikes??? First of all we do not have adequate expertise in the Government Quality Control Systems , which are going to do this.How does CISCO check , whether the gold /Silver partners are not selling any counterfiet Switches?? Are there any checks in place…I dont think so that this happens cos i never heard of such a thing.A Network switch in a government organisation can be very dangerous as it can give access to the complete network thereafter. Moreover, how will you know if there is any malicious program running inside these network switches? these questions do not have any answers or are there any???

Now ill tell you something interesting , I have a broadband connection from MTNL(National ISP) wherein they have given me a Chinese broadband modem. I regularly see that , in my router there are lots of intrusions from IP addresses originating from China..Infact i do not know how many people have actually seen their Broadband log while working in the night or left ideal for few hours. Chinese are really proactive in network intrusions and hacking (A Sports site , thought to be associated with CNN has been hacked yesterday by a Chinese University) in protests against Olympic Torch boycott movement in certain European countries.

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