Comments on: Cisco Buys Pure for a Smarter Home Network

By: The Battle for the Home Network Pits PCs Against Set-top Boxes

The Battle for the Home Network Pits PCs Against Set-top Boxes — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 04:02:31 +0000

[...] large technology vendors, such as Intel, Microsoft and Cisco, are playing to both sides of the home networking divide, trying to provide tools and products that allow service providers a [...]

By: Cisco To Buy Pure Digital for $590M

Cisco To Buy Pure Digital for $590M — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:30:13 +0000

[...] Linksys router, it can offer PC-free telepresence to consumers. This combines Cisco’s hope of wresting control of the digital home from the PC and putting it in the network with its love of video [...]

By: Cisco’s Misguided Foray Into the Living Room

Cisco’s Misguided Foray Into the Living Room — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 18:33:03 +0000

[...] before Scientific Atlanta) to buy consumer-focused companies — Linksys ($500 million), Pure ($120 million) and KISS technology — not to mention some investments in CE startups like Akimbo. With the [...]

By: Syed

Syed — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 11:34:56 +0000

Historically we have seen that any hardware equipment (eg. memory, storage space, etc) has a steep reduction in cost over a period of time. (Remember those days when we had PCs with 1MB RAM and no hard disk and RamDisk as temporary hard disk?)

Going along these lines, I believe Cisco’s plan to eliminate PC as the middleman might work, once the cost of these smart devices/technologies are driven down over a period of time.

Stacey, your thoughts are right..adoption in current day scenario might be difficult.

Again, time is the answer – lets wait and watch.