Cisco Products Provide Benefits for Home
Cisco is an enterprise-grade company, with enterprise-grade equipment, and its used to working with enterprise partners designing simplified, dummy-proof, almost automatic configuration for its consumer wireless routers.
Cisco router wireless system has numerous efficiency enhancement advantages. They have three very important characteristics which set them apart from some of their rivals. Products are of high quality, are user-friendly, and much more reliable. They offer consistent network functionality all through system use.
The Valet & Linksys series of devices are aimed primarily at home users, but Cisco wireless routers combine the simplicity with some additional configuration options for more tech savvy customers.
Cisco network systems solutions create an inherently intelligent, integrated network that
adapts to current and future business needs by:
• Providing secure, unconstrained connectivity between employees, customers, and
information
• Delivering quality, real-time applications, such as voice and video, on a converged
network platform
• Helping to ensure access to information and resources from anywhere
• Automating a manageable and self-defending network
• Reducing operating expenses
• Enabling green business, IT, and networking practices
These system and solutions enable customers to do the following:
• Reduce risk in deploying and operating technology solutions
• Accelerate technology solution deployment
• Improve business agility with a scalable, reliable, predictable foundation on which to
build business value and lower the total cost of ownership
• Integrate technology solutions in the campus, branch, and data center with higher
and consistent quality assurance of product and solution
• Improve ease and success of deploying business-critical applications when
enabled by Cisco network architectures
• Customize a design to meet specific business requirements
The systems and solutions designs are organized around the following:
• Network architectures—Branch office or WAN, campus and data center
• Technologies—Unified communications, mobility, security, and video
• Industries—Financial services, healthcare, retail, and manufacturing
Performance and densities for concurrent data, security, voice, and advanced services up to
multiple T1, E1, and xDSL connections
• VPN connections (or plan to migrate to them over time)
• Integrated security services that enable network device protection, threat defense, secure
connectivity, and endpoint protection and control
• Secure integrated call processing, voicemail, flexible telephony interfaces, redundancy for
centralized call processing, or robust digital-signal-processor (DSP) support, including local
conferencing and transcoding
• Wireless support through integrated IEEE 802.11 a/b/g standalone access-point high-speed
WAN interface cards (HWICs)
• Wireless LAN controller modules (components of the Cisco Unified Wireless Network)
• Integrated Layer 2 switching capability in densities from 4 to 48 ports and the ability to use
Cisco StackWise connectivity
The Cisco Connect software makes it easy to configure and customize the Linksys E-series routers. The quick and easy setup automatically assigns a WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) security passkey, and SSID for the wireless network. Linksys E-series customers can then manage devices connected to the network, set access controls for the devices, establish a visitor password to enable secure access for guests, or customize advanced settings like the SSID and router password using the Cisco Connect software.
More advanced users can also still access Linksys’ advanced features through the default IP address (192.168.1.1)–although I recommend changing the default IP address so that every would-be attacker in the world won’t know where to start hacking your router by default.
Small and medium businesses can benefit from the 300mbps wireless data speeds, and the wired Gigabit Ethernet connections for zippy downloads. The ability to make USB storage devices network accessible by connecting them to USB ports on the Linksys E2100L enables organizations to also create a sort of rudimentary NAS (network attached storage) for sharing files.