> Ubiquiti’s IoT gear includes things like WiFi routers
I understood IoT to mean wifi toasters, TVs and other home appliances. Since when was a router an IoT device? Are we going to call all nework devices IoT now. This strikes me as taking rather too much journalistic license.
In fact wtf is a WiFi Router. I use Unifi to deploy Wireless Acess Points on a LAN with centralized control. It is possible to do this without them having internet access at all, but it makes it rather harder to update everything. This is miles away from IoT.
Describing Ubiquity as a IoT company is like calling Cisco, Juniper, Mikrotik and Aruba IoT companies. This sounds like an attempt to feed the narrative that the IoT is going to eat us alive.
Let us focus instead on what Ubiquity actually did wrong, isn't that bad enough?
I believe the IoT distinction is that the platform reports to a cloud service, where parts of that are implemented as SaaS, if only for SSO and remote management. I think this is a fairly loose definition though if the underlying device data is still on-prem.
Wi-Fi router I would take to mean one of those consumer all-in-one boxes, which is what the UDM fits the description of.
I agree that this distinction is unnecessary. When we consider who wrote the article and who it's for, we should expect a bit more granularity than foggy acronyms.
> Ubiquiti’s IoT gear includes things like WiFi routers
I understood IoT to mean wifi toasters, TVs and other home appliances. Since when was a router an IoT device? Are we going to call all nework devices IoT now. This strikes me as taking rather too much journalistic license.
In fact wtf is a WiFi Router. I use Unifi to deploy Wireless Acess Points on a LAN with centralized control. It is possible to do this without them having internet access at all, but it makes it rather harder to update everything. This is miles away from IoT.
Describing Ubiquity as a IoT company is like calling Cisco, Juniper, Mikrotik and Aruba IoT companies. This sounds like an attempt to feed the narrative that the IoT is going to eat us alive.
Let us focus instead on what Ubiquity actually did wrong, isn't that bad enough?