I used to work in a high visibility position within Cisco and John Chambers told me he was not interested in entering this market space in any way shape or form. With that said, we had developed several products, such as a low end broadband router with built in firewall and vpn access, and low dollar wireless access points. The router is nice, and I have several of them but the wireless products really sucked and he threw the R&D dollars out the door, and never marketed the products and pretty much gave the products away to employees really cheap. Now to see this after throwing all that money away surprises me, plus this is the first time I have seen John contradict himself. Now I just hope they "Ciscoize" the products and our home wireless networks will get much cheaper :)
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