automated site to site vpn recommendations

Wed Jun 29 23:38:42 UTC 2016

There is a downside to subscription pricing for the vendor: they don't get the instant cashflow they're used to. I know Cisco seems to be taking a tactic where only some product lines use subscriptions and the others are on a typical enterprise 3-5 year replacements cycle to provide Cisco with the  large cash injections upon upgrade.

Tim 

> On 30 Jun 2016, at 7:00 AM, Seth Mattinen <sethm at rollernet.us> wrote:
> 
>> On 6/29/16 15:33, Eric Kuhnke wrote:
>> My biggest issue with Meraki is the fundamentally flawed business model,
>> biased in favor of vendor lock in and endlessly recurring payments to the
>> equipment vendor rather than the ISP or enterprise end user.
>> 
>> You should not have to pay a yearly subscription fee to keep your in-house
>> 802.11(abgn/ac) wifi access points operating. The very idea that the
>> equipment you purchased which worked flawlessly on day one will stop
>> working not because it's broken, or obsolete, but because your
>> *subscription* expired...
> 
> 
> I'm sure most hardware makers would love to lock in a revenue stream of "keep me working" subscriptions if they could get away with it. From the company's perspective what's not to love about that kind of guaranteed revenue?
> 
> I often wonder if Microsoft will someday make Office365 the only way to get Office, which if you don't maintain a subscription your locally installed copy of Word will cease to function.
> 
> ~Seth