This is Trump and Ajit Pai's dog and pony show to avert attention from the Net Neutrality decisions going on that I can guarantee you is making both of them money on the back side.

They are either don't trust their engineering department and expect plenty of bugs to have to pay out for or to dumb not to realize that one critical bug released in the wild could cost them millions or tens of millions. Why not put a value on what the bug could of cost the company. Then pay out a percentage up to a maximum payout of a million or something. That would get people interested.

Maybe we need to implement work laws like Thailand. That if a job can be filled by a US Citizen then a foreigner can not take that job.

Would need more information on the locations. Running Linux, Windows, Solaris? I presonally use Zenoss for all of my monitoring. It is handling around 1800 devices right now and monitors all aspects of the network and servers. Zabbix uses agents. So you could run the server at your location and of course the agents connect to it for monitoring. People talk about needing a VPN connection to be safe. But another solution that I would do is use stunnel for encrypting. I do run a large openvpn setup as well. With this large of a VPN setup I would look at possibly using Quagga and doing RIP. It will be easier to manage all the routes and netblocks.

You have to be able to afford pricey CEO's, CTO's, and any of the C's. To do this you have to compensate by replacing a higher paid employee that know what he is doing with one that half ass knows what he is doing but makes the books like nicer. You can see here (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/03/475952/ceo-pay-faster-worker-pay/?mobile=nc) that companies have spiraled out of control. Heck look at AIG, General motors bonuses paid out when we the tax payers were paying their salaries

You have to be able to afford pricey CEO's, CTO's, and any of the C's. To do this you have to compensate by replacing a higher paid employee that know what he is doing with one that half ass knows what he is doing but makes the books like nicer. You can see here (http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2012/05/03/475952/ceo-pay-faster-worker-pay/?mobile=nc) that companies have spiraled out of control. Heck look at AIG, General motors bonuses paid out when we the tax payers were paying their salaries.

He needs to move to a Redbox style setup. There are plenty of vendors online that have better setup's than Redbox. DVDNow and a few others. Even offer video games which suprising is still a pretty good rental market. A lot of kids rather rent the game for a few days to a week since that is all the time it takes to beat most of them now days.

Actually VOIP is very much a big part. It's just that there currently isn't any devices on the market as of yet. And not to mention the Sprint/Clearwire merger has yet to fully happen. Ever think that once the merger happens that maybe some devices will "appear" on the market?