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Originally Posted by boroboi
Cisco aren't exactly the best brand in network technology, either. Just a name that seems to get around a lot.
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Cisco is like IBM. There's an old saying - Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM. Same goes for Cisco really. If the next Superhub was a Cisco box, I wouldn't have any issues with that. Unless of course it's Cisco Linksys. Their stuff just stinks these days.
Thing is, it seems with the superhub that the hardware isn't the entire issue. I'm not sure what sort of chipset is inside the box, but my guess is it'll be some sort of System on a Chip, like so many things now, possibly with a secondary controller to run the modem side of things. Mostly they are Broadcom or Atheros these days. The deciding factor in how good it is is the OS, and the software sitting on this. We've seen this time and time again, with set top boxes (on all platforms, Cable, Satellite, and Terrestrial), as well as modems and routers. Provided Virgin can pick a solid hardware platform, and put some decent code on top, they should be fine. I can't help but feel the current generation could be improved, unless they're seeing a lot of hardware failures, in which case, you can't always fix buggy hardware in software.