[Asterisk-Users] Linksys/Cisco buys Sipura

[Eric Wieling aka ManxPower]

Brian Leyton wrote:

> Well, I tend to think that Sipura's products will come out ahead here.  For
> example, when Cisco bought Linksys, one might have expected them to cripple
> or shut them down - after all, Linksys makes routers, and Cisco makes
> routers.  Obviously that didn't happen, because Cisco saw an opportunity in
> having a "low-end" SOHO product line, and a high-end "enterprise" line.  I
> think the same will happen with Sipura.
> 
> Cisco makes excellent, well-designed, but expensive IP phones.  Sipura makes
> good low-end products.  Despite the fact that you can pick up a router at
> most any electronics or office supply store for $20, Linksys continues to be
> successful.  I see no reason that Sipura won't do the same, in the face of
> the imminent flood of cheap IP phones.  Assuming that Cisco gives them the
> money and room to innovate.

I was hoping that SIPura would add PoE, a second Ethernet port, and 
improve the speakerphone (SPA-814).  I doubt that Cisco will add these 
features because then they will compete with the high end Cisco products.