In a roundtable with the European press, John Chambers confirmed the “end of life” of the Linksys name, being replaced by the new and redesigned Cisco branding.
This decision follows Cisco’s move last April to make it easier for Linksys resellers to add Cisco products to their offerings and vice versa. Also, just a few weeks ago, Cisco created a new division solely focused on the SMB market and headed by Rick Moran, formerly marketing chief of several Cisco communications applications like the unified communications portfolio, Cisco IPICS, Cisco Small Business Systems (Linksys One), TelePresence, Business Video and Physical security.
“It will all come overtime into a Cisco brand. The reason we kept Linksys’ brand because it was better known in the US than even Cisco was for the consumer. As you go globally there’s very little advantage in that”, said Cisco’s CEO.
Now, if they’ll only kill off the company too. The nose dive their products have taken has been quite disturbing, since I’ve had to be one of the ones to translate why rebooting a router fixes “my Internet is down!” to end users.
Ever since Cisco took control of Linksys you could not only see a improvement in there product line but a company rise to the top, just about every item that has the Cisco name along side Linksys I know it’s going to work like I expect it too, the very best. I will no doubt miss seeing a new wireless router with the blue color Linksys has so perfectly picked for their products on my desk. I have total faith in what Cisco has in store for us, and I’ll be one of the first in line to check out a item from their new line.
Ever since Cisco took control of Linksys you could not only see a improvement in there product line but a company rise to the top, just about every item that has the Cisco name along side Linksys I know it’s going to work like I expect it too, the very best. I will no doubt miss seeing a new wireless router with the blue color Linksys has so perfectly picked for their products on my desk. I have total faith in what Cisco has in store for us, and I’ll be one of the first in line to check out a item from their new line.
Free upgrades to Linksys gear so we can get the Cisco label on it?!?
heh heh
Good, now people who call tech support will stop say “Link-Ski”
Just to add a bit. If anyone is interested in still getting the great WRT-54G wireless routers. Go to ebay and search for them, and look for versions 1 through 4. These had adaquate memory, and are the “small-block Chevy” of wireless routers. There is plenty of open source firmware available too. That’s all for now. Ron N.
This is really, really, really dumb. Cisco is big stuff, Linksys is small stuff and the most recognized brand in the U.S. which is only the largest consumer market in the world using the A-Z alphabet. Joe Consumer will walk into Best Buy/OfficeMax/Office Depot/Staples/Fry’s and pick up a D-Link device because “Cisco” means nothing to him. The Cisco name will become watered down because it will mean “those little toys” to their “normal” market. Really, really, really dumb.
What I really want is Cisco IOS on my linksys gear
So, they are just handing over their corner of the home networking market to Belkin? I can live with that.
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Hi, just doing some browsing for my Belkin site. Lots of information out there. Looking for something else, but nice site. Have a nice day.
wireless routers are very necessary nowadays because we do not want so many wires running around the home “-*