:D Well put. The only real difference is that I doubt many people
will suffer a firey death to due poorly managed VoIP keys.
The technology is developing at such a rapid pace that the phones
will likely be replaced within a year or two anyways.
On 11-Dec-06, at 4:27 PM, Brock Campbell wrote:
> Echos.....
>
> Ford Pinto......
>
> On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 16:24 -0600, Tony Arkles wrote:
>> On 11-Dec-06, at 4:17 PM, Dylan Griffiths wrote:
>>>
>>> Security seems to be a secondary concern for too many companies :p
>>
>>
>> Here's a hint about why. Your suggest scheme sounds great from a
>> technical point of view. I'm going to ignore the additional
>> engineering cost, and just look at a per-unit setup cost. Lets say
>> that it takes, on average, 5 minutes to set up the key pairings, and
>> assume an installation of 50,000 units:
>>
>> 50,000 units * 1/12 hours/unit = 4166.7 hours
>> 4166.7 hours * $20/hour = $83,333
>>
>> Assuming that they don't anticipate losing more than $83,000, it
>> doesn't really make sense to add that overhead. (I'm not debating
>> how safe of a decision this is, just looking at it from a bean
>> counter point of view). I think I'm likely shooting low here as
>> well, given that Sasktel pays their Tier I tech support roughly $20/
>> hr, the actual installers may make a little more than that.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Tony
>>
>>
>>
>>
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