Tim Higgins
Belkin 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.
Multi-Tech Systems today announced two wireless routers with PPTP/IPsec VPN endpoint capability. The new RouteFinder SOHO Security Appliances are aimed at branch offices that need secure access to a corporate LAN while providing the convenience of Wi-Fi.
The new appliances combine a stateful packet inspection firewall supporting up to 15 client-to-LAN or LAN-to-LAN IPSec or PPTP VPN tunnels and 3DES / AES encryption with an 802.11b/g Wi-Fi router. Other features include browser-based management, syslog support and built-in 4 port 10/100 switch.
Qualcomm Atheros (QCA) has announced its first HomePlug AV2 chipset.
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.
