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There is nothing magical about it. If you were correct and no-one made enterprise networking gear without phone-homes, quite a few of our clients' customers wou

There is nothing magical about it. If you were correct and no-one made enterprise networking gear without phone-homes, quite a few of our clients' customers wouldn't have a network, since they are strictly prohibited from buying any equipment that does. You seem to be extrapolating from limited experience, possibly of a few specific product ranges or licensing models, and assuming that the whole industry works the same way. It does not.

tw04 7y ago
That’s an awfully long-winded response without actually listing a single vendor. It would lead me to believe you don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve worked with basically every vendor in the space and phone-home is table stakes which is why your story doesn’t really hold water...
- Silhouette 7y ago
  You've worked with basically every vendor in which space? Surely not enterprise-level networking, where there are hundreds if not thousands of sources for numerous different types of device?
  - tw04 7y ago
    Let me bring you back since you seem to be trying to change the discussion now that you're stuck in a corner. We're talking about vendors that provide wireless networking hardware. Your claim was that any wireless hardware networking vendor that had phone-home wouldn't fly in hospitals or finance. I can literally walk into any hospital in the US and prove that wrong, so I asked you for a list of these magical vendors. There aren't hundreds, there aren't thousands, there are dozens at best at any given moment. Name one that is an enterprise wireless networking vendor that doesn't have phone-home.
    - Silhouette 7y ago
      We're talking about vendors that provide wireless networking hardware. You might have been, but the comment that I'm replying to is the first one in this thread to include the word "wireless". Ubiquiti make various other kinds of network equipment as well, and enterprise networking is a vast industry all of its own, of which wireless is only a small part.

tw04 7y ago

That’s an awfully long-winded response without actually listing a single vendor. It would lead me to believe you don’t know what you’re talking about. I’ve worked with basically every vendor in the space and phone-home is table stakes which is why your story doesn’t really hold water...

Silhouette 7y ago
You've worked with basically every vendor in which space? Surely not enterprise-level networking, where there are hundreds if not thousands of sources for numerous different types of device?
- tw04 7y ago
  Let me bring you back since you seem to be trying to change the discussion now that you're stuck in a corner. We're talking about vendors that provide wireless networking hardware. Your claim was that any wireless hardware networking vendor that had phone-home wouldn't fly in hospitals or finance. I can literally walk into any hospital in the US and prove that wrong, so I asked you for a list of these magical vendors. There aren't hundreds, there aren't thousands, there are dozens at best at any given moment. Name one that is an enterprise wireless networking vendor that doesn't have phone-home.
  - Silhouette 7y ago
    We're talking about vendors that provide wireless networking hardware. You might have been, but the comment that I'm replying to is the first one in this thread to include the word "wireless". Ubiquiti make various other kinds of network equipment as well, and enterprise networking is a vast industry all of its own, of which wireless is only a small part.