{"id":9167,"date":"2013-01-24T19:59:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T01:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9167"},"modified":"2013-01-24T19:59:36","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T01:59:36","slug":"cisco-exits-the-consumer-market-as-it-sells-linksys-to-belkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9167","title":{"rendered":"Cisco Exits The Consumer Market As It Sells Linksys To Belkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>This should be a relatively smooth transition that won\u2019t affect current customers: Belkin says it will honor all valid warranties for current and future Linksys products. After the transaction closes, Belkin will account for <strong>approximately 30 percent<\/strong> of the US retail home and small business networking market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/thenextweb.com\/insider\/2013\/01\/24\/belkin-helps-cisco-exit-consumer-space-by-acquiring-its-home-networking-division-including-linksys\/\">Cisco Exits The Consumer Market As It Sells Linksys To Belkin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>These cheap home routers have become commodities.\u00a0 As far as I know Belkin makes a decent product.\u00a0 Cisco tried to require its home router users to be managed by its cloud platform and after that debacle it seemed all downhill from there for them.\u00a0\u00a0 If possible I prefer to use a real Linux box running real iptables as a gateway\u00a0 using these wifi home routers as access points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This should be a relatively smooth transition that won\u2019t affect current customers: Belkin says it will honor all valid warranties for current and future Linksys products. After the transaction closes, Belkin will account for approximately 30 percent of the US &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=9167\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[580,291,812],"class_list":["post-9167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-acquisitions","tag-routers","tag-soho"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}