Belkin – Linksys Deal Is Done

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Tim Higgins

Belkin - Linksys logoBelkin announced that it has completed its acquisition of Linksys.

The buyout was announced in January.

Today’s announcement didn’t contain any surprises and essentially repeated what was revealed in January. Belkin intends to maintain separate Belkin and Linksys product lines, even keeping standalone Linksys product and support websites.

New Linksys products announced at CES should be rolling out in the coming weeks.

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News Summary – 2 February 2016

Today's new product announcements include a NAS amd MU-MIMO router from ZyXEL, APs from Ruckus and network cameras from D-Link. Intel and Qualcomm Atheros also announced their 60 GHz 802.11ad products are interoperable.