Linksys Launches New SMB Line

It was nostalgic to see the brand again; Linksys which I've been well acquainted "with" for the last 11 years has just recently launched their new business line tagged as Linksys Small Business which holds a few familiar network devices under its belt. If you remember, they had the RV series, some cameras and storage devices that were transferred to Cisco. Now that Linksys is with Belkin, they want to bring the legacy of the brand name back in small business. Hence, the aggressive release of a range of new gigabit switches, routers, surveillance cameras that are designed to meet the connectivity and security needs of small and medium businesses in the Philippines.

International Micro Village Inc. (Authorized distributor of Linksys in the Philippines) had a small luncheon in Conti's Greenbelt 2 a few days ago to brief the resellers about the new devices. Some press and online peeps were there too. Jai Thampi, Head of Product Management for Linksys in Asia Pacific, Japan, China and Middle East started by explaining about what happened with Cisco, Linksys and Belkin. In a nutshell, nothing has changed much. They will still exist as a separate brand and will continue to get the good things with Belkin and integrate that with Linksys products and vice-versa. They have been successful so far and starting off with new and improved products like these under SOHO devices will show how committed they are to make consumer lives better in the "network" and "Internet" side of things department.

Bringing back the heritage of the Linksys brand hence the best router in the market wrt1900. More technology and investing on more powerful hardware. Their brand research shows that their target market is still SOHO. They think about how the business grows and give the public fundamental working network devices. This is the Linksys SMB Product strategy, they will make their approach scalable so the network would be ready as your businesses becomes bigger.

He also mentions that pretty soon home automation on these products will be done much like the WEMO technology they do in Belkin products. Connect, Unify and Power. This is their call.

Shown above is their LINKSYS LCAD03FLN which is a 1080p 3MP Indoor Night Vision Dome Camera, LINKSYS LCAD03VLNOD 1080p a 3MP Outdoor Night Vision Dome Camera, LINKSYS LCAB03VLNOD a 1080p 3MP Outdoor Night Vision Bullet Camera and LINKSYS LCAM0336OD 1080p 3MP which is an Indoor/Outdoor 360 Mini-Dome Camera are all available in authorized resellers of International Micro Village Inc. nationwide!

They presented also two vpn routers, LINKSYS LRT214 and LINKSYS LRT224. The difference is just the 2 Internet ports. It also supports OpenVPN and EasyLinkVPN which makes things easy if you need to access your network remotely. IPSec VPN throughput is at 110 which is higher than other brands. They briefed the resellers pretty much with just these selling points.

I wish I could test these devices out in my home soon especially the VPN routers. Other than that, their security cameras looks promising. I didn't like what it aesthetically looks like though it might be a standard that they are following that's why it' looks like that (compared to the old WVC cams they had). Will I get to test them out soon? I hope so. 

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Your New Tech Venue: TECH BOX

A new go to place for everything tech has began taking Manila by storm. This is Tech Box. A business that started from kiosks in the past, now has its business flourish and ultimately want to beat the grey market which has been getting the big chunk of smart phone and accessory sales in the Philippines.

In only 9 months, they have already put up around 19 stores. Now if that isn't successful I don't know what else is. They are carrying the latest handsets from Lenovo, they showed us the A300 tablets, IdeaPad Yoga Series and other mobile phone handsets from their line. Lenovo actually is their biggest partner and they sell more of their ware than other brands. Lenovo Philippines is actually proud of their working relationship and look forward to more things in the future.

Eagerly showing their newest handsets including a 41 Megapixel capable smart phone is the country's most loved phone brand Nokia. They have also been working with TechBox for years now and they showed us their latest handset the Nokia Lumia 1020. They say nothing else comes close to this particular model because even if you zoom in on images that are already magnified, you can still see the fine details of your shots because it's the only phone that can do that in the market.

They also have other phone brands carried like LG and HTC. They also have accessories for almost all phone brand and models courtesy of Technology in Motion. Technology in Motion has cases for protection of the latest mobile phone handsets. They also have armor, waterproof cases that you can carry around in out of town adventures. Aside from that, they have power items, storage devices and peripherals. It's all in TechBox!

So if you are in the look for something affordable but not in the grey market, try TechBox and see if you can get the best deals in this side of town. They are on Alphaland Mall across the Magallanes MRT station. They also have branches on major malls nationwide!

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