Cisco acquires Scientific Atlanta, with the wish of combine the different bag networks: video, data, voice, audio. In digit stroke, Cisco has positioned itself at the pinnacle of the Network Convergence debate.
Only digit companies had a rank hair over the steer bringing the STB market: Motorola and Scientific Atlanta. With todays acquisition, Cisco cuts finished the obstruction to start the STB market, and with it, acquires a large possibleness to advance the conception in bag networking. Neither Motorola, nor SA had sufficiency of the another pieces. Cisco does.
Imagine the forthcoming of the Home Network ...
One, meet One incase from Cisco sits as a Gateway Server for ALL the bag networks, with a fruitful tube reaching into it. Services crapper be overturned on and soured remotely, as the consumer pays. Various Clients - every Wireless, of instruction - plays soured this Server: The VOIP/VideoOIP sound phone / headset / Camera, the TV, the PC, the Laptop, ...
This computer is both a sharp Set-Top-Box and a bounteous hardware figure with PVR, DVD, DVR, Digital Music Console, Wireless Router.
Cisco already has enthusiastic Storage Networking affirmation in-house, though tailoring that downbound to consumer-level idiot-proofing module move to be a challenge. The driver, of course, is that consumers would poverty to view, listen, transmit over binary displays / speakers / handsets - every around the house. The glasses also allow catering to a secure, authenticated, multi-user environment.
In a nutshell, the STB was extremely essential in the food-chain, and today that Cisco has got its safekeeping on that alive piece, including finding the steer challenge, we crapper dream.
So far, a genuine Home Network connection figure was not possible.
Now it is.
ps. Configuring and managing Home Networks module be a bounteous profession, and this employ cannot be outsourced as easily. A mostly non-tech grasp consumer accumulation module obligation that assist organisation become discover to their homes and mend things. Who pays? Consumer or Carrier? Without this support, Convergence module not interbreed the chasm.
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