Re: automated site to site vpn recommendations

[Tim Raphael <raphael.timothy () gmail com>]

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 () 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