The college health system is a crazyquilt of private coverage and student plans, with few rules governing how schools charge for coverage or on-campus services.
Its biggest switch, called the Nexus 7000, sits above them all, unifying a computer center's crazyquilt of engineering standards into a layer of control that Cisco can own.
If Metro can be criticized for anything, it is that it is so mobile-centric that the large screen expression in Windows 8 becomes a crazyquilt of pulsing colored boxes.
Unable to impose their policy agenda at the federal level, these activists are now trying to fashion a crazyquilt of state and even local rules on everything from privacy to cybersecurity.