I fail to see how using linksys's range of products is going to be comparable to enterprise grade cisco gear. Well, your average consumer wouldn't be involved with a CRS or for that matter, anything that remotely resembles a CRS. Not sure why you'd pull the consumer market into this marketing hype that cisco is going on about.
:P On 10-Mar-2010, at 1:19 PM, Rubens Kuhl wrote: > On Tue, Mar 9, 2010 at 4:51 PM, Brian Feeny <bfe...@mac.com> wrote: >> >> So who is going to be the first to deploy these? >> >> http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/2010/prod_030910.html >> >> >> - Download the entire Library of Congress in just over 1 second >> - Stream every motion picture ever created in less than four minutes >> >> If nothing else you gotta love the Cisco Marketing machine! > > And the amazing thing is that the target audience of the campaign has > nothing to do with the product. The very few carriers that can buy > CRS-x already knew about the product and preliminar specs; the real > message is to the consumer markets: there is more bandwidth out there. > Don't be cheap: use, prefer and create applications requiring more > bandwidth. If the market grows, Cisco grows with it, selling products > across the board (newer Linksys APs, newer CPEs, newer PEs, newer core > routers). > > The real enemy here for Cisco is not vendor-J,vendor-AL or vendor-H; > it's a growing culture that speaks txtspk instead of plain language > and would be happy with Telex bandwidths. That hurts business; HD > video and HQ audio sell a lot of stuff, and that's the culture Cisco > hopes will prevail. > > > Rubens >
