Cisco Consumer Push Includes Content Download and Distribution Box/Service

We’ve been covering Cisco’s (Nasdaq:CSCO) consumer moves for the last couple of years, including its acquisition of Scientific Atlanta, Kiss DVD players, and Five Across, the social networking platform. An interview With Cisco CEO John Chambers in WSJ, ahead of its Q2 earnings this week, elaborates on the company’s consumer strategy. Among them, later this year, Cisco plans to release a box that will allow consumers to download content from the Internet and distribute that content to other computers or TV within the home. The device will also allow consumers to watch cable TV.

Other than that, the interview is pretty bland…would be interesting to see how the box comes together, and how would it compare to say a Slingbox.

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