Despite a tumultuous economy, Cisco CEO is charging ahead to capture the connected home
Cisco is about to invest heavily in the home confirmed today CEO John Chambers, speaking at the company’s annual industry analyst conference C-Scape in downtown San Jose.
“We think the time has come for Cisco to make a huge play in the home,” said Chambers.
The San Jose, Calif., network maker which plans to push its brand into the home, will free up resources over the next 12 months and move them into consumer areas including the connected home (Linksys), media entertainment (Scientific Atlanta, EOS, MediaNet), and visual communications (telepresence).
Home networking 2.0: from device centric to network centric
Cisco believes the industry is about to transition from Home Networking 1.0, in which a home router lets networked PCs share a broadband connection, to Home Networking 2.0, in which the multimedia-enabled home will be comprised of a multitude of disparate network devices, applications and services that are connected and share information to one another.
Cisco will also push its telepresence products into the home.
