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The nonsense about $60 linksys devices was addressed in the article. Did you bother to read it? CISCO quoted a $487 router. You expect the taxpayer to foot the
by ChristianMarks 14y ago
The nonsense about $60 linksys devices was addressed in the article. Did you bother to read it? CISCO quoted a $487 router. You expect the taxpayer to foot the bill because you're too lazy to keep track of which router you've installed at each location? I deal with bureaucrats like you all the time. This is the last place I would have expected to find them.
- moonchrome 14y agoThe bureaucrats I deal with would buy the various routers at best prices and then proceed to build a software system to track which router was installed where that would cost > top of the line routers and would be built by a company friendly to the person making the decision. Initial costs would be low to win the bid but many "required changes" would ramp the bill up. They would create software jobs and get optimal router pricing - if that's not efficiency I don't know what is !
- ChristianMarks 14y agoThose systems exist--CISCO has been selling them for years. Or have we identified another area ripe for disruption?
- Swannie 14y agoCISCO also sells Monitoring-aaS, which will do discovery, monitoring and upgrade for $xxx/device/yr.
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- moonchrome 14y agoI can assure you that any existing software would fail to meet the requirements (hint - primary requirement being related to/friends with/lobbying the decision maker).
- ChristianMarks 14y agoYou're right if nepotism is a requirement. But if we could suspend our cynicism long enough to consider available enterprise products (which is a tremendous strain admittedly for anyone who agrees with Paul Graham about "enterprise" computing) then as a comment below points out, CISCO sells Monitoring as a service and there are other vendors that provide this.