Let it rain: The triumph of trickle-down tech The lines between enterprise and consumer-grade infrastructure devices are blurring faster than ever — which is saying a lot, given the advances of the past decade. The events of the past 30 years have shown that the concept of trickle down doesn’t work very well in economics, but it works great for technology. Alongside the massive strides made in various open source network, storage, and virtualization projects, trickle-down tech is why we’re suddenly seeing such advanced options available in consumer and prosumer devices today.Essentially, we’ve brought enterprise tech to the small business.[ Mobile devices are already in your network -- now learn how to manage them with InfoWorlds Consumerization of IT Deep Dive. Download the special report today! | Cut to the key news in technology trends and IT breakthroughs with the InfoWorld Daily newsletter, our summary of the top tech happenings. ]We’re at a place where you can buy a $60 wireless access point and router that can do nearly anything you could possibly need at home or in a small business, as well as WPA2 Enterprise with LDAP authentication. Need to cut different SSIDs on different VLANs for security and guest networking? No problem. Need 802.1x and QoS? Not a problem. DD-WRT does all of this and more, and its now coming standard on some wireless routers, rather than requiring a knowledgeable user to flash their compatible device. It’s becoming a standard.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here infoworld/article/2871802/consumer-electronics/triumph-trickle-down-tech.html#tk.rss_all
Posted on: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 22:15:21 +0000
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