Well personally it would be a non-starter for me or our customers from an operational or security standpoint, regardless of the obvious commercial deficits. The last thing I’d ever be in a hurry to do is procure a multi-site Meraki deployment from an ISP.

But then we’re a multi-accredited Cisco Partner and we design, supply and implement Meraki networks for a living. Likewise we tend to work with mid-market customers with IT teams/directors so CEOs don’t broker infrastructure contracts. So my perspective on this is from the other side.

Whichever way you shake it, the CEO may not necessarily have foreseen the implications of this, and it may not have been immediately obvious this was what the ISP salesperson managed to get in the proposal. So personally if you have any opportunity to amend that, that’s what I would do.

That said, maybe the CEO wants to outsource more of the company infrastructure management? But again, an ISP is normally quite an unusual choice for this. Unless they’re not strictly just an ISP and you’ve not afforded the detail to this thread.

If you have no sentiment or desire to have ultimate control or ownership over your own network edge, or you can’t get out of it, you’ll have to live with that I suppose.

Best of luck whichever way you end up going…