What is Cisco up to?

In the past years, Cisco has now purchased Linksys, Scientific Atlanta and has recently announced intentions to buy WebEX.

So, what do you do with routers, set-top boxes, collaboration and a managed quality of service network?

You build the home portal. You embed all complexity either in hardware or in the managed services that Cisco will then sell back. No software complexity in the house. With network virtualization techniques, not only will all of the devices in your house talk, you will be able to monitor them and use their data from wherever you are.

Welcome to the brave new world of IPv6 – which will allow us to have a unique Internet address for each square foot of your house.

As the web approaches “the electric outlet” in its ubiquity, the desire and need to capture more interactions will explode. One of the classical paradoxes of technology is that as usage explodes, quality must go even higher. It’s one thing to have a 1% error rate on 1000 transactions a day, it’s a bigger problem to have a .01% error rate on 1,000,000 transactions a day.

-Robert Wenig