How High Can Net Fly 50 Cents?, page-106

Country bob, appreciate the adult response, without resorting to name calling and derision.

I may very well be wrong, for your sake I hope I am, and that I'm missing something fundamental.
I reviewed the documents, including the install, presentations, admin manual from the .cn site that @knwee2 was so kind to provide. Few scary items in there..

namely, in their presentation material, they go on and on about how insecure IPsec, and VPN's are, yet they are using the same encryption algorithms for their tunnels. (which in the documentation, refers to them as VPN's) ironic hey. Further to that, they are using old versions of the schemes.. i.e. AES128, when the industry standard is AES256 - the reason they do this, is they have to decrypt it.. using general compute for these calculations, rather than purpose built hardware is CPU taxing..

Their "test" and "use" cases with the performance testing, they're making a number of outlandish assumptions, and not providing the full testing methodology, I could quite easily generate the variance they're showing there in the comparison.

the pro/con lists are absolute rubbish, I won't bother to disseminate them all.

One key thing, they harp on about the platform being pen tested.. and as such, when you implement it, it means you don't have too... Absolute load of bs. any new system, even if it's a xAAS will be pen tested, or needs to be independently done on a regular basis. That's part of the appeal of opensource software, as it's vetted from the code level publically by a large amount of people.

they talk about a reverse proxy, and load balancer in their platform. Again, absolutely no benefit and the wrong place and tools to do it.

Can i see a use case? yes I can, for a SME of under 50 employees, that doesn't want to spend money on a commercial VPN system, and provides faux SDWAN type connectivity (without functions like QoS, ratelimiting) and without decent logging or auditing - no option for snmp, syslog exports.

It honestly sounds like, they have an App (the client) being sold via China Telecom, that lots of people have downloaded, but without the VIN gateways, there's nothing to use them with.

I'm not qualified to speak to the business aspect of the company, or the money. I'm not telling anyone to buy or sell or not buy, simply raising awareness that just cause it has some buzzwords in it - sdwan, china, thousands of licences, ease of use, etc, doesn't mean it's a viable product.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but this seems to be the only thing they are focussed on? no other products just VIN/VSP (which is another blog post by itself)

If the VIN product doesn't sell, and doesn't generate revenue, what's the plan for the company?
Re: China Telecom, I'd be interested in seeing exactly how they are involved, and to what level. The answer to this would be enlightening.

If anyone is going to the AGM, I would be interested in someone asking a question: "Of the revenue generated from CT, how much has actually been received into the company bank accounts"

Re: the lovely comment about A2M. I'm still a holder, and while I did sell out at 1.8, i bought back in. Just like I did with ALU, CNW, I've had a lot to learn, and am still learning. Part of that is to understand how the company works, how their products work. If that's the wrong way to approach it, then so be it, I'm sure I'm due some more hard lessons.


Also put me down for a chocolate tea pot!