Most of this is in practice amounts to the justification of bureaucrats too lazy to do a proper analysis. I work with them and this is exactly the generalized rubbish they spout--it NEVER gets deeper than this. Details are never forthcoming. Instead we have self-serving nonsense about the difficulty of maintaining databases of router configurations. It's as if remote management facilities don't exist--you tell your superiors that you're still upgrading IOS with TFTP, so you need all the routers to be the same.

You haven't mentioned the article once.

What do you think the probability of expanding a small library from four users to 50 is in this economic climate? Did you read that the stimulus was for the installation of fiber? Instead the state got routers equipped with T1 modules.