Will Cisco Sell Scientific-Atlanta, Linksys Assets?

Cisco looks set to reduce its areas of key focus from over 40 to just five, plus three or four more experimental units with high growth potential.

The big five will be maintaining leadership in core routing, switching and services; collaboration; data center virtualization and cloud; architectures; and video.

Many observers suggest that the retrenchment could see a spin-off or sale of some consumer units, including the set-top box and home networking businesses based on the acquisitions of Scientific Atlanta and Linksys.

Cisco could dump devices and refocus on core strengths - Rethink Wireless