Tim Higgins
My contact said that the DIR-855 will support dual-band "concurrent"
streams and divulged one other tidbit about the product. The DIR-855 will have an OLED display, similar to that on the DGL-4500.
He wouldn’t confirm whether the DIR-855 and DGL-4500 share the same main board, which can support two radios via its two mini-PCI slots (see for yourself in the slideshow). We’ll just have to wait for the FCC registration, which hasn’t happened yet.
While the Wi-Fi Alliance's list of 802.11n Draft 2.0 certified products is growing longer, of course, there is still a catch. A product's appearance in the list doesn't necessarily mean that the products you can buy today are Draft 2.0 compliant. Nor does it mean that you can download firmware and drivers to bring them into compliance, either.
The Uberpulse headline "Cisco kills Linksys brand, plans agressive move into consumer markets" is sure an attention getter, but comes as no surprise.
First, Chambers actually said: "It will all come over time into a Cisco brand"—which hardly amounts to an announcement that the Linksys brand has been, or will soon be, retired. And for those of us who deal regularly with the company and its products, it's really a statement of the obvious.
As is too often the case, yet another networking term that initially had clear meaning has been grabbed by the marketeers and is being used to lure gullible buyers.
