Cisco continues small business push
For small businesses looking for a good VoIP solution, look no further than Cisco’s subsidiary, Linksys. They have developed an excellent VoIP solution named Linksys One, which features a services router, a color IP phone, and analog gateway. The whole set-up will go for around $1600 USD in the first quarter of 2006.
The Linksys One offering marks Cisco’s seventh “advanced technology” debut since it initiated an aggressive product road map earlier this year. Cisco’s “advanced technologies” are products for markets that Cisco believes will ultimately reach $1 billion in annual sales. “Small businesses are the fastest-growing customer segment for Cisco, and we think hosted SBS (small business systems) will be a high growth area,” Charles Giancarlo, Cisco chief development officer, said in a statement. “As the next advanced technology, we believe hosted SBS has the potential to grow to a $1 billion business and Cisco-Linksys can achieve a leading market share position.” Linksys One, developed by Cisco’s Linksys subsidiary that it acquired in 2003, provides hardware that includes a services router, color IP phones and analog voice gateways. The technology is hosted by Internet service providers such as MCI and NeoNova Network Services, but the offering is sold, installed and serviced by a reseller.
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