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LSainsbury

30-07-2007 12:23

Linksys brand - RIP

Quote:

Cisco will ditch the Linksys brand to bring all SMB and consumer gear under its single networking omnicorp banner.

Source: El'Reg

MovedGoalPosts

30-07-2007 13:04

Re: Linksys brand - RIP

Quote:

Chambers opined: "The reason we kept Linksys' brand because it was better known in the US than even Cisco was for the consumer. As you go globally there's very little advantage in that."

I've heard of Linksys - I'd have thought that has a reasonable brand awareness. Commercial users will have heard of Cisco too.

As for omnicorp - who on earth are they :confused:

Stephen

30-07-2007 13:12

Re: Linksys brand - RIP

Omnicorp sounds like its from Robocop :)

Acathla

30-07-2007 13:14

Re: Linksys brand - RIP

They are going to be branding everything Cisco.

Omincorp - just means everything under one brand. That brand being Cisco.

Quote:

"The reason we kept Linksys' brand because it was better known in the US than even Cisco was for the consumer. As you go globally there's very little advantage in that."

I think most of us will have heard of Cisco and instantly associate it with high quality devices. Good move imo.

SMHarman

30-07-2007 23:34

Re: Linksys brand - RIP

This was a matter of time, they have been branding as Linksys by Cisco for a while. You know when that happens it is a matter of time before the original brand is dropped.

Chicken

31-07-2007 00:56

Re: Linksys brand - RIP

Wasn't he in Star Trek?

Graham M

31-07-2007 01:47

Re: Linksys brand - RIP

Nah that was Captain Benhamin Sisko :p:

Lord Nikon

31-07-2007 14:12

Re: Linksys brand - RIP

DS9 - Benjamin Lafayette Sisko - slightly different spelling though.

handyman

31-07-2007 14:34

Re: Linksys brand - RIP

I thought it was good that commercial was Cisco and the majority of Linksys stuff was consumer. Not that I'm bothered as It's easy enough to see which is which.

[Edit] perhaps we spoke too soon Linky

Uncle Peter

31-07-2007 22:32

Re: Linksys brand - RIP

Quote:

Originally Posted by handyman (Post 34363019)

Either way the presence of the decimal point 2 places to the right on the price tag would have been the main differentiating factor ;)

jrhnewark

01-08-2007 01:39

Re: Linksys brand - RIP

I like the Cisco brand - although I don't like what the did with Linksys stuff - but the new logo looks bizarre.

Halcyon

01-08-2007 16:00

Re: Linksys brand - RIP

Heard this was coming for quite a while and many products have had both cisco and linksys displayed on them.
It's a good thing as Cisco are well known too.

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