Cisco Systems Inc. has merged the engineering teams for its small and medium-sized business (SMB) products to form a single group to develop products for the Cisco and Linksys brands. Cisco says the Linksys gear is designed for SMBs with fewer technology demands and lacks certain features of Cisco’s own small-business gear, such as unified communications and certain security capabilities. The vice president of small business sales, worldwide channels at Cisco, Andrew Sage, said that the newly formed team might swap features across the two brands so that the Cisco gear has the benefit of Linksys ease-of-use innovations and more advanced capabilities such as customization features.
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