I am going to post something that goes against the IT grain. Since everyone is complaining about SOHO and residential crap hardware, I am going to target what "supposedly" runs the internet. Devices where people get paid top dollar to administer and who are bribed with money to be kept quiet.
These enterprise hardware appliances are junk, plagued with bugs, backdoors, vulnerabilities, quirks and high price tags and aren’t much better than your typical 50 dollar home router or switch. These devices are made by:
Products made by this company give their end users a false sense of security, buggy interfaces, hardware backdoors built right in from the vendor for the NSA to monitor your internal networks while also allowing China to have their way with your data.
http://money.cnn.com...ever/index.html
I wish large companies would stop funding this crap but the company loyalty is so high due to the salaries they make from supporting this junk people are force to grin and bare it. As long as large companies continue to fund their expensive shit, they won’t go away anytime soon.
People need to have a conscience and just boycott their crap regardless of the size of their pay cheque. In the last 3 weeks I’ve had to throw out a few of their low end managed switches because of hardware problems they were causing on the network. Unfortunately the rest of the network is run off the same crap.
Cisco also charges an arm and a leg and their enterprising licensing is an expensive nightmare. Typically, the only difference between their low end product line and their top end isn’t a change of hardware but a different firmware which is uploaded to their device to unlock features that have been shut off or hidden within the device until the product license is upgraded.
I have no respect for this company that touts itself as a leading networking and security appliance. Nothing but expensive junk.