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Ron Skruzny's avatar

A great read. I kept on thinking of Apple and how it tries to have a common operating system, chip set but then you have to buy new hardware every year or so. Instead they could charge an annual fee . . . but probably would not work for the consumer. It works for Microsoft Office but not the full stack from Azure down to the applications software.

What do they do with the old hardware - recycle?

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Esther Dyson's avatar

Now, can they please make it as easy to connect to a new printer as to connect to Zoom?

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Colin Brown's avatar

Thanks! Really good deep dive. Sending it to a few friends at Nokia for comment

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wei's avatar

The enterprise's internal network environment is often disorganized and burdened with perpetual technical debt. Utilizing Meter for network and access management is indeed an excellent idea; a complete rebuild would likely offer a more efficient and simplified solution.

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AG's avatar

Isn't there an elephant in this room? The word Huawei isn't mentioned a single time in this extremely long piece.

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Packy McCormick's avatar

Fair point, but their competitive products are effectively banned in the US. So a decade from now when we’re talking all packets globally, they’ll potentially run into each other, but don’t think super relevant for now.

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Audere Insights's avatar

Great post! Thanks for writing, very much appreciate the historical context and broad yet detailed discussion on network and market evolutions.

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Packy McCormick's avatar

Thanks for reading it!

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wino's avatar

Who can read such a long text? Be a bit merciful.

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Anthony's avatar

Love your work, but I feel like this fails the, "if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." test. FWIW, my main take away is you think this is going to be successful because you think whatever these brothers commit to will be successful.

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