We have an upcoming project in ideation. We currently have a fairly large number of very small sites that are essentially unmanaged from the network perspective. Mostly residential ISP connections with consumer equipment that was setup by local staff or region technicians. We intend to try and upgrade about 80 sites with managed switches, access points, and firewalls. Sounds great so far, right?
Now the not so great part. Most of these sites are really small, like 3 people and a drobo small. Normally we use Juniper gear at a lot of leased line sites, but I'm starting to think that the cost of the project might get a bit expensive for the return. Also, site-to-site VPN is out of the question for now so to some policy / political stuff for now. That makes remote management more troublesome as well.
Where do you all draw the line on these things. Is their a $x per employee rule of thumb?
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